|
| May 30, 2007 | Wednesday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 13, 1428 |
|
Car bomb at Baghdad mosque kills 21: Five Britons kidnapped
BAGHDAD, May 29: A car bomb exploded outside a Shia prayer hall in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 21 people and wounding 53 according to medical officials, shortly after another attack killed 12.... 
|
|
Russia tests ballistic missile
MOSCOW, May 29: Russia successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday featuring multiple warheads designed to overcome missile defence systems such as the planned US shield in Europe....
|
|
|
||
|
China asks India to resolve border row
NEW DELHI, May 29: China has told India to resolve a border row between them with discretion and not go public about the nagging dispute, a reminder that New Delhi may...
|
|
EU, Tehran to hold N-talks tomorrow
TEHRAN, May 29: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet on Thursday in Spain in their latest bid to break the deadlock over the Iranian atomic standoff....
|
|
|
||
|
Indian Christians accuse hardliners of victimization
NEW DELHI, May 29: Hundreds of Indian Christians, some shouting `hallelujah’, held a noisy but peaceful protest in New Delhi on Tuesday demanding the federal government stop hardline Hindu groups from attacking them....
|
|
Caste clash claims eight lives in India
JODHPUR, May 29: At least eight people were killed on Tuesday in clashes between police and thousands of people demanding government aid in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, officials said....
|
|
||
|
Bush slaps new sanctions on Sudan
WASHINGTON, May 29: US President George W. Bush on Tuesday tightened US sanctions on Sudan over “genocide” in Darfur and pushed for a tough new UN Security Council resolution to punish the government in Khartoum....
|
|
Iran charges three with spying
TEHRAN, May 29: Iran announced on Tuesday it has charged three US-Iranians with spying in cases that have heightened tensions with Washington, just a day after Iranian and US officials held landmark talks over Iraq....
|
|
|
||
|
Anti-war symbol Cindy Sheehan gives up fight
WASHINGTON: US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has announced she no longer wants to be the public face of the movement against the US-led invasion of Iraq, a cause she spearheaded following the death of her soldier son....
|
|
Sarkozy threatens to veto farm talks
SAINT PIERRE LE VIGER (France): French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Tuesday that France would veto negotiations at the World Trade Organisation if French farming interests were threatened....
|
|
|
||
|
Blair arrives in Libya
SIRTE (Libya): British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew in to oil-rich Libya at the start of an African tour for talks with Moamer Kadhafi on a visit expected to see a major energy deal sealed....
|
|
School standards falling in US: OECD
PARIS: School students in the United States think they are just great at mathematics: but by the age of 14 they are two years behind the level in other industrialised countries and overall come 24th in a class of 29....
|
|
|
||
|
Disarming not easy to carry out in Yemen
SANA’A: Government plans to disarm large swaths of the population are running into difficulties, with some lawmakers reticent to pass new legislation, calling for enforcement of existing law instead, and tribal leaders demanding the right to protect themselves....
|
|
Iran sees ‘positive steps’ after talks with US
WASHINGTON: The US and Iran finally broke the ice on Monday to hold their first formal talks since Washington broke off diplomatic ties in 1980 during the embassy hostage crisis....
|
|
|
||
|
EU, Asia not ready to discuss Darfur, climate
HAMBURG (Germany): European foreign ministers on Tuesday tried to forge a common approach with Asian nations to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises and the Darfur conflict ahead of next week’s G8 summit....
|
|
Afghans pessimistic about Nato: study
OTTAWA: Half of 17,000 men surveyed in April in southern Afghanistan “chillingly” said they believe the Taliban will triumph against Nato forces, a think tank said in a report on Monday....
|
|
|
||
|
Palestinian poverty is alarming
GENEVA: Workers in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel have suffered another year of drastic decline in living standards and rising poverty, unemployment, social disintegration and political chaos, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said in a new report....
|
|
Sideloading making cellphones more versatile entertainment devices
LOS ANGELES: Earlier this year, cellphone giant Nokia and Sony Pictures announced that South Africans who bought new Nokia smartphones would receive a memory card loaded with a copy of “The...
|
|
|
||
