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October 28, 2006 Saturday Shawwal 4, 1427 14 Afghans die in explosion KABUL, Oct 27: Fourteen people were killed in a bomb blast in Uruzgan on Friday as the government said it believed around 25 were killed in fighting between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Taliban this week.... Six killed in BD as AL launches agitation: Appointment of interim govt head DHAKA, Oct 27: Six people were killed and over 200 injured in clashes between rival political activists across Bangladesh on Friday, as the prime minister prepared to hand over power to an interim administration before elections.... N. Korea to face similar sanctions as India, Pakistan: Rice WASHINGTON, Oct 27: The United States will impose similar sanctions against North Korea that it slapped on India and Pakistan after their nuclear tests in 1998, says US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.... Aga Khan signs accord with Canadian govt OTTAWA, Oct 27: The spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, Prince Karim Aga Khan, signed here a $40 million partnership agreement with the Canadian government to establish a global centre for pluralism in Ottawa.... US should quit Iraq next year: Carter NEW DELHI, Oct 27: Former US Democratic president Jimmy Carter called Friday for US troops to be ‘totally’ withdrawn from Iraq ‘within the next year or so’.... Muslim leader under pressure to resign SYDNEY, Oct 27: Australia’s most senior Muslim cleric refused to resign on Friday over his likening women without headscarves to ‘uncovered meat’, saying he would only quit once the world was “clean of the White House’.... Iraq confession acquired under torture: journalist LONDON, Oct 27: An Al Qaeda suspect captured by the United States, who gave evidence of links between Iraq and the terror network, confessed after being tortured, a journalist told the BBC on Thursday.... Cheney in a spot over remarks on torture WASHINGTON, Oct 27: The White House struggled to damp down a new row over torture on Friday, after Vice President Dick Cheney said dunking detained terror suspects in water was a ‘no brainer’.... Publishers of blasphemous cartoons acquitted COPENHAGEN, Oct 27: A Danish court on Thursday acquitted the bosses of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper who had been sued by Muslim groups for printing 12 cartoons of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) in September last year.... Skull scandal stuns Germans BERLIN, Oct 27: The German defence force on Friday relieved two soldiers of their duties in a growing scandal over pictures of troops playing with human skulls in Afghanistan.... Tension marks riot anniversary in France CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS (France), Oct 27: Two armed men set fire to a bus in a rundown Paris suburb on Friday – the anniversary of two deaths which triggered the worst riots last year to hit the French capital in nearly 40 years.... Fried Coke NEW YORK, Oct 27: 6 A new fast food is making its debut at US fairs this fall — fried Coke. Abel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from Dallas, tried about... Pitt, Jolie in trouble NEW DELHI, Oct 27: Hollywood star couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - filming in India - ruffled the feathers of local officials after they landed a helicopter without permission.... Iraq bears the brunt of insult to injury WASHINGTON: It’s been coming for a long time: the idea that fixing Iraq is the Iraqis’ problem, not ours — that we’ve done all we can and now it’s up to them.... Muslims likely to vote for Democrats WASHINGTON: Increasingly disillusioned with more than five years of the “global war on terror”, Arab- and Muslim-American voters are poised to vote heavily Democratic in the Nov 7 mid-term elections, according to two polls released this week.... US poll spending to hit record $2.6bn WASHINGTON: The November 7 congressional race will be the most expensive midterm election, with spending reaching some $2.6 billion, a non-partisan group that tracks US campaign spending said Tuesday.... Putin reverses open-door immigration policy MOSCOW: Quite abruptly, potential migrants have been told they may not be as welcome in Russia as they had come to expect. In his state-of-nation address in May this year, President... Success on Iran needs rethinking LOS ANGELES: Now that we’ve failed to stop North Korea from going nuclear, it’s all the more imperative to prevent Iran, another member of the “axis of evil,” from going down the same route.... US in danger of ‘being pushed out of ME’: Brzezinski WASHINGTON: As the Middle East prepares to mark the 50th anniversary on Oct 29 of the Suez Crisis that effectively ended European colonialism, a half century of US hegemony in the...

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