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| October 05, 2007 | Friday | Ramazan 22, 1428 |
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Junta chief offers to meet Suu Kyi
YANGON, Oct 4: Myanmar’s junta chief has offered to meet detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi if she ends her support for sanctions against the regime, state media said on Thursday.... 
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Turkey refuses to back down on Cyprus row with EU
NICOSIA, Oct 4: Turkey will continue to refuse trade privileges to Cyprus unless the EU eases the economic isolation of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Thursday....
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Nine die in rebel attacks in India
GUWAHATI, Oct 4: Five paramilitary troopers and four tribal separatists were killed in two attacks in India’s restive northeast, police said on Thursday....
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Afghan deaths up by 55pc
KABUL, Oct 4: Insurgency-related deaths in Afghanistan were 55 per cent higher in the first nine months of 2007 compared to last year, as violence since the 2001 US-led invasion surpassed all previous highs, according to an Associated Press analysis....
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Malaysia’s ban on BD workers
KUALA LUMPUR Oct 4: Malaysia has imposed a fresh ban on migrant workers from Bangladesh after more than 2,000 of them were abandoned at its main international airport, a report said on Thursday....
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Thousands of marine microbes discovered
CHICAGO, Oct 4: Scientists have uncovered thousands of marine microbes -- including never-before-seen bacteria -- thriving deep in the sea near cracks in the Earth’s crust where warm fluids and cold sea water mix, U.S....
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Power failure disables air traffic control
MUMBAI, Oct 4: Air traffic control officials in Mumbai said on Thursday they were investigating a power failure that left them unable to direct planes over India’s financial capital for several minutes....
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Travel, TV feed religious tensions, says UN chief
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 4: World travel and live satellite television have fed cultural and religious tensions and alienation among nations, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a UN conference on Thursday....
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Amitabh in trouble over low crime rate claim
LUCKNOW, Oct 4: Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan has been asked to explain claims he made in an advertisement promoting an Indian state, a government official said on Thursday....
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Brown faces crunch poll gamble
LONDON, Oct 4: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown marked his 100th day in office on Thursday facing possibly the biggest decision of his career: whether to call snap elections in a make-or-break political gamble....
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Monks flee as reports of brutality emerge
LONDON: Scores of Burmese monks were stranded in Rangoon’s railway station on Wednesday while trying to flee the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests that has left thousands languishing in prison....
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Bush says leaving Iraq may embolden Iran
PENNSYLVANIA: Warning that a premature American departure from Iraq would create turmoil throughout the region, President Bush said on Wednesday that his determination to stand firm in Iraq would send a crucial signal to Iran....
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S. Africa mine mishap fuels labour discontent
JOHANNESBURG: An accident that trapped thousands of workers deep inside a gold mine may energise South Africa’s powerful labour movement, hardening its resolve to win concessions from business and tilt government to the left....
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UN failing to create a hunger-free world
UNITED NATIONS: The scene within and outside the United Nations last week was strikingly dissimilar: while more than 140 world leaders were arriving in New York to wine, dine and address...
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Refugees at French port dream of England
CHERBOURG: Like dozens of other dreamers camped out near the port of Cherbourg, Amir has tried many times to reach the “English Eldorado” by secreting himself under a ferry-bound lorry....
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Russia marks Sputnik anniversary
MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the tiny satellite whose crackly beeps started the Space Race between the Cold War superpowers....
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North Korea nuclear deal comes wrapped in ambiguity
BEIJING: A disarmament pact sealed this week takes North Korea a step closer to abandoning its nuclear arms ambitions, and yet it bears potentially deal-breaking ambiguities that negotiators have until now held at bay....
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