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April 05, 2007 Thursday Rabi-ul-Awwal 16, 1428 Pelosi meets Assad DAMASCUS, April 4: US House speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday she was ready to promote peace between Syria and Israel, after talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that have drawn White House wrath.... White House denounces Pelosi’s trip to Syria FORT IRWIN (California), April 4: The White House on Wednesday sharply condemned US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi''s trip to Syria, saying the road to Damascus was “lined with the victims” of Syrian-backed extremists.... US using Jundullah for attacks in Iran: TV NEW YORK, April 4: Taking a cue from the Afghan war the United States has started advising and encouraging a Pakistani outfit group to conduct deadly guerilla attacks inside Iran, ABC television reported on Tuesday quoting American and Pakistani intelligence sources.... Crackdown extended outside Baghdad BAGHDAD, April 4: Iraq said on Wednesday it is extending the military crackdown in Baghdad to other flashpoint regions where insurgent and sectarian violence has killed hundreds in the past two weeks.... Pelosi calls on Saudi king RIYADH, April 4: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met King Abdullah on Wednesday after arriving in key regional ally Saudi Arabia where she was due to visit the kingdom''s all-male Shura (consultative) Council.... European Muslims become threat to US LONDON, April 4: The United States believes that the next major terrorist attack on its soil could be from European Muslims who feel they are treated as “second-class citizens,” Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said in an interview published on Wednesday.... Lankan govt planning to hold referendum on ceasefire COLOMBO, April 4: The Sri Lankan government is considering holding a referendum on the ceasefire arrangement with the Tamil Tigers in the wake of Monday’s bomb explosion, blamed on the LTTE.... Iran to join Saarc as observer NEW DELHI, April 4: Saarc approved on Wednesday observer status for Iran alongside the United States and the European Union, an Indian minister said. China, Japan, South Korea, the European Union... Tehran to get access to Iranians held in Iraq TEHRAN, April 5: An Iranian representative is to be allowed to meet five Iranians who have been held in Iraq by US forces since January, Iran’s official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday.... Amnesty uses cricket to put Colombo on the back foot COLOMBO: The delivery is faultless but the government sees it as a ‘googly’. Amnesty International (AI), the human rights watchdog, has timed the cricket World Cup series in the West Indies... Aging population a major challenge for Lankan govt COLOMBO: The clock is ticking fast for Sri Lanka to take advantage of its ‘demographic dividend’ and get young people to participate in the country’s economic future — before ageing hits the population in the next 25 years.... Afghan civil society and media need govt attention KABUL: Scan the pages of major newspapers around the world and the only news coming out of Afghanistan is about bomb blasts and the escalating conflict between the Taliban and Nato forces in the country’s south.... Indian court verdict angers ‘backward classes’ NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has thrown a spanner in the government’s plan to promote affirmative action by reserving 27 per cent of admissions for them in central (federal) institutions of higher learning.... NGO to teach Afghans dangers of explosives KABUL: At a lecture on the dangers of land mines, the schoolchildren listen in horror as a guest speaker recounts how his left leg was blown off above the knee.... Pope names new top cardinal VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI has named Italian cardinal and Vatican secretary of state Tarcisio Bertone as the new camerlingo of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Wednesday.... South Asia’s economy grows TOKYO: Poverty in South Asia, the region with the world''s largest concentration of poor people, could fall dramatically within a generation if the current pace of economic growth continues, the World Bank said on Wednesday.... Trio held over credit card fraud GENEVA: Three Chinese nationals were arrested in Switzerland after running up bills worth thousands of Swiss francs for hotels and luxury goods on forged credit cards, police said on Wednesday.... Quake rocks Indonesia''s island JAKARTA: A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit off Indonesia''s Sumatra island on Wednesday, geologists said, but there were no reports of casualties or damage. The quake struck at 3:23 am (2023 GMT... India mob lynches ‘rapist’ LUCKNOW: An Indian ice-cream seller was beaten to death by a mob which accused him of raping a girl just yards away from a “house of horrors” where the remains of over 20 people were found last year.... Asia’s richest woman dies HONG KONG: Asia’s richest woman, Nina Wang, has died of an unspecified illness after reports she had been battling cancer, leaving unanswered questions over her estimated $4.2 billion fortune.... Woman fakes kidnapping MADRID: Spanish police have detained a Romanian woman who faked her own kidnapping to keep her boyfriend from discovering she had been unfaithful, police said on Wednesday.... French aid workers KANDAHAR, April 4: Afghanistan’s Islamist Taliban movement said on Wednesday it had captured two French humanitarian workers who have been reported missing with three Afghans for nearly two days....

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