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| June 15, 2007 | Friday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 29, 1428 |
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Benazir’s return to power will trigger anarchy: writer
NEW YORK, June 14: A Jewish American writer has warned that if former prime minister Benazir Bhutto returns to power, it ‘would almost certainly trigger a return to anarchy and open the door to a Taliban-style fundamentalist coup’.... 
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Hasina barred from leaving BD
DHAKA, June 14: A Bangladeshi court on Thursday barred former prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina from leaving the country....
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Hamas takeover would scuttle US plans
JERUSALEM: A Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip would deal a blow to a US peace push founded on the premise Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would be capable of reining in militants and Israel would embrace him as a partner....
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Nepal parliament takes first step to abolish monarchy
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s parliament has for the first time given itself powers to abolish the monarchy in a move that piles pressure on the already hobbled 238-year-old Shah dynasty, analysts said on Thursday....
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3 mosques attacked in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 14: Three mosques were bombed in Iraq on Thursday in apparent reprisals for an attack on a revered shrine, sparking fears of fresh sectarian bloodletting....
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Tehran threatens to reduce nuclear cooperation
VIENNA, June 14: Iran threatened on Thursday to further reduce cooperation with the UN atomic agency if new sanctions are ordered and insisted its uranium enrichment programme had gone too far to turn back....
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Iran should stop expanding enrichment: ElBaradei
VIENNA, June 14: UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei called on Thursday on Iran to declare a moratorium on expanding uranium enrichment in order to defuse the crisis over fears Tehran seeks atomic weapons....
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Irish PM confirmed for third term
DUBLIN, June 14: Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was elected for a third term in office on Thursday, by lawmakers voting in the first session of parliament since May 24 polls....
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Lebanese army tightens noose around militants
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, June 14: The Lebanese army on Thursday said it has made advances against besieged Islamists at a Palestinian refugee camp, seizing an ammunition cache and detaining one of the fighters'' medics....
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Waldheim is dead
VIENNA, June 14: Kurt Waldheim, the former UN secretary-general and president of Austria whose reputation was tarnished by revelations over his Nazi past, died on Thursday at the age of 88, his family said....
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Iran rationing petrol to avoid further sanctions
TEHRAN: As Iran reluctantly begins implementing on Thursday a plan to reduce consumption of mostly imported petrol by cutting massive consumer subsidies, it is with an eye to possible tightening of international sanctions for the country’s controversial nuclear programme....
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US lawmaker raps Europe on security
WASHINGTON: Veteran US lawmaker Tom Lantos on Thursday complained young Americans were dying to defend freedom while Europe’s youngsters “stroll the avenues” in prosperous Paris and Bonn....
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Learning from the past
MONROEVILLE (USA): When Harper Lee wrote “To Kill A Mockingbird” she could not have known it would be hailed as a classic, much less that it would shape the way her hometown viewed its past....
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‘Green’ MBA programmes
SAN FRANCISCO: The student dinner begins as one might expect in a progressive hotbed like San Francisco: the self-proclaimed “Saturday night composter” urges people to recycle their trash and another student touts silent group meditation....
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