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| October 27, 2007 | Saturday | Shawwal 14, 1428 |
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Turkey rushes troops to Iraq border
ANKARA, Oct 26: Turkish helicopters and fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions on Friday as diplomatic efforts began in Ankara to avert a major offensive against the guerrillas based in northern Iraq.... 
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Hundreds of ‘supermassive’ black holes discovered
PARIS, Oct 26: An international team of astronomers have unexpectedly found hundreds of expanding “supermassive” black holes buried deep inside galaxies billions of light years from Earth....
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Putin likens US missile dispute to Cuban crisis
MAFRA (Portugal), Oct 26: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday likened a dispute with Washington over defence to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 but said the same Cold War tensions could not be repeated....
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Estrada backs Arroyo after pardon
MANILA, Oct 26: Former Philippine leader Joseph Estrada on Friday announced his support for his successor, President Gloria Arroyo, after she pardoned him for a life sentence on corruption charges....
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US agency apologises for phoney news conference
WASHINGTON, Oct 26: The US government’s main disaster-response agency apologised on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California’s wildfires that no news organisations attended....
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US forces to stay in S. Korea
SEOUL, Oct 26: US troops will stay in South Korea even after a permanent peace pact is signed for the peninsula, South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon said on Friday....
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Rebel attacks claim 10 lives in India
GUWAHATI, Oct 26: An ambush by separatist rebels in northeastern India left three soldiers and a civilian dead, while a series of clashes between rival militants also killed six rebels, officials said on Friday....
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Astronauts begin spacewalk
HOUSTON, Oct 26: Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Friday on a spacewalk that began a hectic work schedule to ready the orbital outpost for European and Japanese laboratories....
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Sonia meets Chinese leaders
BEIJING, Oct 26: India’s ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi met China’s top leaders on Friday on a visit widely seen as a sign of improving relations between the world’s two most populous nations....
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Canadian govt proposes bar on veiled voters
OTTAWA, Oct 26: Muslim women will no longer be allowed to stay veiled when voting in Canada, under government legislation introduced on Friday....
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Washington on collision course with Tehran
The US administration may understand that its sanctions announced on Thursday will have limited effect, and is in fact laying the ground for military action over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, experts said....
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Myanmar junta trying to pacify public anger
BANGKOK: The Myanmar junta’s talks with detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi were no more than a bid to deflect criticism of its bloody crackdown on protesters before top UN envoys visit, analysts say.The...
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Putin hopeful of deal with EU
MAFRA (Portugal): Russia’s President Vladimir Putin voiced hope at a summit on Friday that a new EU-Russia treaty could be agreed ‘soon’, even as Moscow outlined sharp policy differences with Brussels....
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Norway’s first black minister stays cool under fire
OSLO: The portraits of her predecessors line the hall of her new office: women for the most part, in their 50s and all white. An austere group that will soon be...
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Reality clouds Sarkozy’s plans
RABAT/PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy is known for relishing a challenge but the French leader’s goal of coaxing more than a dozen Mediterranean countries into an EU-style union seems to have geopolitical realities stacked against it....
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Reliable source
WASHINGTON: Thought you knew all the Watergate secrets? Tom DeFrank kept one for 33 years: Months before Richard Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford knew Nixon was doomed, and he outmaneuvered the media and the White House....
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