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| March 01, 2007 | Thursday | Safar 11, 1428 |
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23 killed in Iraq violence: Security conference on 10th
BAGHDAD, Feb 28: Bomb and mortar attacks tormented war-weary Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 23 people, as Iraq set the date for a security conference that could see Washington sit down with Iran and Syria.... 
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US, N. Korea move to normalise relations
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: US and North Korean officials will meet in New York on March 5 and 6 for talks that could lead to normalisation of diplomatic relations, said the State Department on Wednesday....
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Italian PM survives confidence vote
ROME: Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday survived a Senate vote of confidence in his centre-left government by 162 to 157, Speaker Franco Marini announced....
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AL wants polls in June
DHAKA: The Bangladesh Awami League on Wednesday formally requested the country’s Election Commission to set a date, preferably by June, to hold the ninth parliamentary polls....
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Israelis kill three in Jenin
JENIN (West Bank): Israeli commandos disguised as Palestinians killed an Islamic Jihad commander and two militants in Jenin on Wednesday in a new crackdown in the north of the occupied West Bank....
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Picasso paintings stolen
PARIS: Two paintings by Pablo Picasso worth a total of 50 million euros and a drawing were stolen from the Paris apartment of the artist''s granddaughter as she was sleeping, a lawyer and police said on Wednesday....
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Ahmadinejad visits Sudan
KHARTOUM, Feb 28: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his first visit to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks with his Sudanese opposite number Omar al-Beshir, two leaders who have been increasingly defiant in the face of Western pressure....
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1,000 bombers ready: Taliban
SPIN BOLDAK, Feb 28: Steeling for a spring offensive, the Taliban said on Wednesday they had sent 1,000 suicide bombers to relatively quiet northern Afghanistan, a day after a suicide blast targeted U.S....
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Attack on diplomats further isolates Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Six months after a suspected LTTE bomb attack on then Pakistani ambassador to Sri Lanka Bashir Wali Mohammed sent shockwaves among diplomats in Colombo, the terror of the Lankan war...
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Danger of the blame game
LONDON: Taliban’s much anticipated spring offensive came early for US vice-president Dick Cheney. The attack at the Bagram base near Kabul underlined how a basic lack of security is hampering Nato-led...
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Parks hit by drought loses its birds
BHARATPUR: For years, tourists have come to India’s Keoladeo Ghana National Park to gaze at shimmering, bird-flocked wetlands stretching to the horizon....
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Higher Indian defence spending fails to bring cheer
NEW DELHI: India raised its defence spending on Wednesday by an expected 7.8 per cent to nearly $22 billion for 2007/08, but the increase was not expected to speed up the modernisation of one of the world’s largest militaries....
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Afghans caught between abusive elements
KABUL: The soiled, stinking white dinner plates remain untouched where they lay -- a pack of Seven Stars cigarettes on one side, a red corkscrew on the other -- when Afghan police barged into the Four Seasons guesthouse a week ago....
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Bangladesh to seize accounts of the ‘corrupt’
DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh decided on Tuesday to ask the cabinet division and home ministry to freeze of bank accounts and attach property of 15 high profile allegedly corrupt...
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