|
| September 18, 2006 | Monday | Sha'aban 24, 1427 |
|
Eight killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Sept 17: Eight suspected militants were shot dead by troops after gunbattles across held Kashmir as part of intensified efforts to hunt down insurgents, police said on Sunday.... 
|
|
Far right party enters parliament: German regional polls
SCHWERIN (Germany), Sept 17: A far-right party compared to the early Nazis by the German government has won seats in a regional parliament, helped by a weak economy and anger with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition....
|
|
||
|
Left, Congress laud Havana agreement
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: India’s ruling Congress Party and its Leftist allies on Sunday hailed the agreement between President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a positive move,...
|
|
Sri Lanka fighting ends lull
COLOMBO, Sept 17: Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged gunfire and skirmished at sea on Sunday, bringing to an end a four-day lull in fighting around the besieged Jaffna peninsula....
|
|
|
||
|
We’re creating an IMF for the future: Brown
SINGAPORE, Sept 17: The IMF is in the process of reforming itself amidst growing criticism over its capacity to respond to a call for support by a member nation and its relevance in its current form in the new century....
|
|
Anti-Taliban operation a success, says Isaf
KANDAHAR, Sept 17: Afghan and Nato forces announced on Sunday that they had driven Taliban out of an insurgent stronghold in southern Afghanistan and were starting reconstruction work....
|
|
|
||
|
Enrichment under UN monitoring proposed
BERLIN, Sept 17: Germany has proposed the creation of shared, UN-monitored uranium enrichment facilities as an alternative to individual countries acquiring their own enrichment technology, which could be misused for bomb-making....
|
|
Children in UK get online help from Indian e-tutors
NEW DELHI: When Kelsey Baird began worrying about the complexity of AS-level biology she got a tutor from India. It is more than 4,000 miles from her boarding school in Fife...
|
|
|
||
|
In Iraq’s desert, Sunni tribes battle Al Qaeda
RAMADI: Sheikh Sattar al-Buzayi summoned other tribal chiefs last week for a war council at his fortified home in Ramadi, the teeming, scarred capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, desert heartland of the Sunni Arabs....
|
|
Experiment proves deadly for Indian lions
CHANDIGARH: Twenty-one lions are dying in a zoo in north India after a cross-breeding experiment to boost the park’s attractions went disastrously wrong. In the 1980s officials at the Chhatbir Zoo...
|
|
|
||
|
Allies stand aloof as US wages financial offensive on Iran
SINGAPORE: The United States is taking the financial fight to Iran as it steps up pressure on its allies to get tough over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions....
|
|
Japan’s emerging new leader unapologetic over WW2
TOKYO: Japan looks set to get its first prime minister born after World War II in Shinzo Abe, who is breaking precedent with his unapologetic views on the country’s imperialist past....
|
|
|
||
|
First hijack-proof aeroplane
PARIS: Leading European aerospace companies began working together on an airline security project in 2004 and are making progress with systems to help produce the first hijack-proof plane....
|
|
|
|
|
||
