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June 12, 2007 Tuesday Jamadi-ul-Awwal 26, 1428 BD landslides, storms claim 100 lives CHITTAGONG, June 11: Landslides and lightning strikes have left nearly 100 people dead in Bangladesh as torrential monsoon rains pounded the disaster-prone country, officials said on Monday.... Hamas-Fatah fighting takes frightening turn: 8 killed GAZA CITY, June 11: Gunmen fired at the house of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas early on Monday and warring factions threw militants to deaths from high-rise buildings, in a dangerous escalation of infighting in Gaza.... Brown rejects call for Iraq inquiry BAGHDAD, June 11: Britain’s future prime minister Gordon Brown on Monday voiced solidarity with Iraqi leaders and rejected domestic calls for a probe into the increasingly unpopular war.... US offers Serbia reward for Kosovo independence SOFIA, June 11: United States President George W. Bush on Monday called on Russia to cooperate over missile defence and offered Serbia potential rewards from the West if it agreed to make Kosovo independent.... Death toll tops 100 in Indian heatwave NEW DELHI, June 11: A heat wave in northern and central India has claimed 28 more lives, it was reported on Monday, taking the toll since the start of summer to 102, the Press Trust of India said.... CIA prison charges hard to prove: EU LONDON, June 11: Renewed charges that Poland and Romania hosted secret prisons of the United States Central Intelligence Agency are not supported by hard proof and the European Union has little appetite to probe deeper, diplomats and parliamentarians say.... Arms smuggling into Afghanistan rising: UN KABUL, June 11: Weapons smuggling into Afghanistan is increasing, the United Nations representative said on Monday, expressing concern about violence in the country.... Global arms sales rose in 2005: Sipri STOCKHOLM, June 11: Sales by the world’s 100 largest weapons manufacturers rose by three per cent in 2005 to $290 billion, spurred primarily by the United States, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) said on Monday.... Denmark suspends adoptions from India COPENHAGEN, June 11: Denmark on Monday suspended all adoptions from India after a news report claimed that some of the children who have been adopted in the Scandinavian country could have been abducted.... UN ‘outraged’ by attempt on Karzai’s life KABUL, June 11: The United Nations said it is “outraged” by an apparent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai as authorities arrested seven suspects in the case, officials said on Monday.... Google files complaint against Microsoft WASHINGTON, June 11: United States search engine titan Google has complained to antitrust authorities that Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating-system software puts rivals at an unfair disadvantage, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.... Sporadic fire shakes Lebanon siege camp NAHR AL-BARED (Lebanon), June 11: Sporadic firefights continued on Monday between Lebanese soldiers and diehard Islamist militiamen entrenched in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, an AFP correspondent said.... Wife of Chinese dissident barred from attending HR meeting BEIJING, June 11: The wife of a Chinese dissident was detained at the airport by security agents on Monday and barred from leaving the country to attend a human rights meeting in Switzerland, the activist said.... Ancient Rome comes back to life in virtual model ROME, June 11: Tourists puzzled by the jumble of buildings in classical and modern Rome can now find their bearings by visiting a virtual model of the imperial capital in what... Guantanamo prison be closed: Powell WASHINGTON, June 11: Former US secretary of state Colin Powell had said that he favours immediately closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to United States.... Iraqi speaker voted out of office BAGHDAD, June 11: Parliament voted on Monday in a closed session to remove the speaker after a series of scandals involving the controversial lawmaker, legislators said.... US govt told to release ‘Al Qaeda agent’ WASHINGTON, June 11: The US government''s `war on terror’ suffered a new legal setback on Monday when judges ruled that an alleged Al Qaeda sleeper agent could not be held without charge on US soil.... Assets of ex-Thai PM, wife frozen BANGKOK, June 11: An anti-corruption panel ordered more than $1.6 billion in assets belonging to ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife to be frozen on Monday pending court rulings on whether it was illicitly obtained.... Funerals of Turkish soldiers turn into protests ANKARA, June 11: The funerals for three soldiers killed in a roadside bomb attack by Kurdish rebels turned into anti-government protests on Monday as thousands of mourners called on the government to resign.... Attack on Iran Kuwait won’t allow US to use its territory KUWAIT CITY, June 11: The defence minister of Kuwait, a major US ally, said on Monday that it would not allow the American military to stage an attack on Iran from its territory.... Lieberman favours mly action WASHINGTON, June 11: Senator Joe Lieberman called for a US military attack on Iran, to halt what he said on Sunday were Tehran-sponsored attacks on American troops in Iraq.... Slavery for the love of football ABIDJAN (Ivory Coast): Driving through Abidjan at dusk young footballers seem to take up every spare patch of land: from rubbish-strewn parks to abandoned parking lots and motorway sidings, barefooted children can be seen everywhere, kicking their way through the dust.... Are you eating dinner on a piece of rainforest? LONDON: Love your new dining room table ... but did you ask the salesman whether it’s made from chopped up rainforest trees? A growing number of furniture shoppers are doing just... Death penalty to stay in S. Arabia RIYADH: Not even the king can save a convict on death row for premeditated murder from the executioner’s sword in Saudi Arabia. The death penalty is here to stay in the... Studies spark new round in US capital punishment debate NEW YORK: Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.... Iraqis ready to fight Al Qaeda LOS ANGELES: Last month, the Associated Press reported that residents of Amariya, one of the bastions of Al Qaeda control in Baghdad, turned on the terrorists and, with US help, killed their leader and many of his followers.... Restoring Italian palace’s glory ROME: For more than half a century, one of the world’s biggest and most historically important gardens was left to degenerate into a wilderness....

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