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| December 10, 2006 | Sunday | Ziqa'ad 18, 1427 |
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Abuses by soldiers at Abu Ghraib worst day on job: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON: For much of the last six years, a question-and-answer session with Donald H. Rumsfeld was the best show in town. The combative Defence secretary''s bristling self-assurance made the Pentagon Briefing Room one of the hottest seats in Washington.... 
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16 killed in Iraq suicide bombing, attacks
KARBALA, Dec 9: A suicide car bomb killed at least six people and wounded dozens more close to the shrine of Hazrat Abbas here on Saturday, officials said....
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45 killed in Sri Lanka clashes
COLOMBO, Dec 9: At least 45 people, including 15 civilians, were killed in heavy fighting between government troops and Tamil Tigers in northeastern Sri Lanka on Saturday, the guerillas said....
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Arab world waiting to explode: Abdullah
RIYADH, Dec 9: Saudi King Abdullah opened the annual summit of Gulf leaders on Saturday with a warning that the Arab world was on the brink of exploding because of conflicts in the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Lebanon....
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Lebanon braces for more anti-govt protests
BEIRUT, Dec 9: Beirut on Saturday braced for escalating opposition protests led by Hezbollah as Western leaders affirmed their support for Lebanon''s beleaguered government....
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Political divide at Beirut campus
BEIRUT: With deepening divisions, fistfights, and heated campaigns for campus leadership, Lebanon''s universities mirror the political strife engulfing the country....
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Carter speaks about Israel and Palestine
WASHINGTON: I signed a contract with Simon & Schuster two years ago to write a book about the Middle East, based on my personal observations as the Carter Centre monitored three...
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PLO calls for early elections
RAMALLAH, (West Bank) Dec 9: The executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization recommended Saturday that president Mahmud Abbas call early parliamentary and presidential elections to resolve a spiralling political crisis, PLO officials said....
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UK schools get guide to Islam
LONDON, Dec.9: A guide to Islam is being given to primary schools across Britain containing a headscarf, a prayer mat, a prayer cap, sacred Ihram clothing worn during the pilgrimage to...
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BD to deploy army ahead of polls
DHAKA, Dec 9: The Bangladesh government late on Saturday announced it would deploy armed forces across the country to maintain law and order ahead of January elections, the state-run BSS news agency said....
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick: first US woman to serve as UN envoy
WASHINGTON: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a staunch Reagan-era anti-Communist who infused American foreign policy with firm conviction as the first woman to serve as the US ambassador to the UN, has died....
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US to bolster anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon, which has resisted appeals to play a bigger role in the campaign to curb Afghanistan''s opium trade, is pledging more support for the US Drug Enforcement Administration''s counter-narcotics efforts....
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Hope for endangered species
TIANEZHOU (China): Conservationists in China are battling to reverse the trend towards extinction facing some of the country''s native species by rescuing those they can find in the wild and breeding them in a protected park....
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Algerian women speak out on violence
ALGIERS: The young woman''s smile is sad, her greeting weary. Assaulted by her half brother, Farida took refuge in one of 30 safe houses throughout the Algerian capital that shelter abused women....
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