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| January 19, 2007 | Friday | Zilhaj 28, 1427 |
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US Congress turns up heat on Bush in Iraq battle
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: Democrats are flexing their muscles to try to thwart President George W. Bush’s plan to boost troop levels in Iraq, which the White House insists will go ahead.... 
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Baghdad blasts kill 19
BAGHDAD, Jan 18: Six car bombs killed at least 19 people across Baghdad on Thursday as Iraq’s prime minister urged the United States to give Iraqi forces more weapons and said...
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Secret courts to supervise US domestic spying
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18: The Bush administration will now allow a secret court to supervise its contentious domestic spying programme that permits authorities to put US citizens under surveillance without warrants....
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Olmert resists pressure to resign
JERUSALEM, Jan 18: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his defence minister refused growing pressure on Thursday to follow Israel''s military chief of staff and resign over failures of last year''s war on Hezbollah....
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Racism row lends fame to Shilpa and show
LONDON, Jan 18: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, so far not known to many outside India, and Britain’s TV Reality show, Celebrity Big Brother, a not-so-popular Channel 4 programme even within the UK, are today world famous....
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Muslims lack tolerance ‘gene’, says Dutch FM
BRASILIA, Jan 18: Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot says Muslims lack a tolerance “gene,” in an interview with the Brazilian daily Correio Braziliense. “We always have been a tolerant country, and we still are....
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Church in ‘Da Vinci Code’ makes big profit
LONDON, Jan 18: Myth and mystery has meant a cash bonanza for the medieval Scottish church featured in Dan Brown''s best-selling book `The Da Vinci Code’, church officials said on Thursday....
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Oprah richest woman in showbiz
NEW YORK, Jan 18: US television talk show host Oprah Winfrey is the richest woman in entertainment, ahead of “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, according to a list published On Thursday....
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Sitara-i-Eisaar awarded to Kuwaiti
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 18: The government of Pakistan on Wednesday conferred a Sitara-i-Eisaar to the chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Barges Hamoud Al Barges, for his services during the devastating earthquake of October 2005 in Pakistan....
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Racism also part of Indian life: paper
NEW DELHI, Jan 18: While condemning “racist jibes” thrown at a Bollywood star on a British reality TV show, several major Indian newspapers on Thursday said the country should examine its own prejudices before expressing national outrage....
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US soldier pleads guilty to rape, murder
CHICAGO, Jan 18: A second US soldier has pleaded guilty in the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the execution of her family, the soldier''s lawyer said on Thursday....
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Gypsy slum a world away from Milan’s fortunes
MILAN: Half an hour''s drive away from Milan''s sumptuous fashion shows, hundreds of Romanian Gypsies who came to Italy seeking a better life have found themselves in a rat-infested camp....
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UN envoy tells Somalis to grab chance for peace
MOGADISHU: Somalia has the best chance for peace in 16 years, but its leaders must reach out to their enemies to break the cycle of violence, a UN envoy said on a landmark visit to Mogadishu on Thursday....
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Causes of 9/11 affect US policy on Iraq
LOS ANGELES: In considering a funding cut-off for US troops in Iraq, the liberal leadership in Congress runs the risk of making the United States more vulnerable to future attacks, not just in the Middle East but here at home....
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Severe storms batter northwestern Europe
BERLIN: The British Isles and Germany were battered on Thursday by a severe storm front packing gale-force winds that left one man dead in northwest England, with forecasters predicting worse to come....
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US focus on wrong part of problem
WASHINGTON: The third or fourth time I heard Vice-President Cheney tell Fox News’s Chris Wallace on Sunday that Al Qaeda was gambling that the United States “doesn’t have the stomach” to...
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Rebels threaten more bloodshed in Assam
GUWAHATI: A separatist group in India''s insurgency-hit northeast, blamed for killing scores of Hindi-speaking people, warned migrant workers on Thursday to quit the region and threatened to step up violence....
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Carter stands up to Israel lobbyists
WASHINGTON: I am concerned that public discussion of my book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” has been diverted from the book’s basic proposals: that peace talks be resumed after six years of delay and that the tragic persecution of Palestinians be ended....
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