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| January 06, 2008 | Sunday | Zilhaj 26, 1428 |
Saakashvili claims victory in Georgia presidential poll
TBILISI, Jan 5: Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili’s camp declared victory in a snap presidential election on Saturday after a disputed exit poll showed him narrowly winning in a first round....
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Opposition brushes aside Kibaki offer
NAIROBI, Jan 5: Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki said on Saturday he was ready to form a national unity government to end Kenya’s bloody turmoil but the opposition brushed the offer aside, saying he must step down and negotiate....
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Thousands protest Gaza siege
NAZARETH: Thousands of Arab Israelis marched through the streets of Nazareth on Saturday in protest against Israel’s sealing-off of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, according to a photographer.The...
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ME visit to promote peace, says Bush
WASHINGTON, Jan 5: US President George Bush said on Saturday that his trip to the Middle East next week aimed to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians and curtail Iran’s “aggressive ambitions.”...
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Hillary’s lead slims in New Hampshire
CONCORD (New Hampshire), Jan 5: Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton maintains a lead over top rival Barack Obama ahead of New Hampshire’s primary next week, but her margin is slipping, according to polls released on Saturday....
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Iraqi soldier shot dead US troops, both armies say
BAGHDAD, Jan 5: Two American soldiers killed during a joint US-Iraq patrol in the northern city of Mosul last week were deliberately shot by an Iraqi soldier, the US and Iraqi militaries said on Saturday....
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Opposition cries foul
TBILISI: Georgia’s opposition complained of “serious violations” in a snap presidential poll on Saturday, but election officials and representatives of incumbent Mikheil Saakashvili dismissed the accusation....
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Afghan clerics demand Crackdown on TV
KABUL, Jan 5: Afghanistan’s Islamic clerics have called on President Hamid Karzai to clamp down on a burgeoning television industry which it accused of spreading “immorality and un-slamic culture.”...
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Suharto’s condition critical
JAKARTA: Former Indonesian dictator Suharto was in a critical condition in hospital on Saturday, his doctors said, a day after the 86-year-old was admitted with a weakening heart and kidneys....
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India in protocol fix over Sarkozy’s girlfriend
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is struggling to find the right protocol for French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s girlfriend Carla Bruni if she accompanies him to New Delhi, local media said on Saturday....
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California pummelled by heavy rain, snow
SAN FRANCISCO: Hundreds of thousands of people across California remained without power early on Saturday following a severe storm that pummeled the region with hurricane-force winds, driving rain and heavy snow....
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Britain’s oldest emigrant
LONDON: A 102-year-old man was setting sail on Saturday to start a new life in New Zealand, becoming Britain’s oldest emigrant in the process, BBC television reported....
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PKK betrayed its own in attack, says Erdogan
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Jan 5: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday called a deadly car bomb attack in the southeastern Anatolia region a “betrayal” of Kurds by Kurdish rebels blamed for the act....
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Obama’s pledge to heal US woos voters
LONDON: One of the most insightful observations about American politics comes from Mario Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York from 1983 to 1995, who said: “You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose.”...
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Dakar Rally cancellation termed a coup for Al Qaeda
PARIS: The decision by the organisers of the Dakar Rally to call off the race just a day before it was due to start was a propaganda coup for the Al Qaeda network, say analysts....
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Bill Gates helps build ‘world’s biggest digital camera’
LONDON: In the daytime the view from Cerro Pachon, a rocky, desolate peak high above Chile, offers a breathtaking vista of the Andes. Mountains of rock topped with snow and glaciers seem to touch the heavens....
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The new year brings a science book bonanza
LONDON: Consider the average human: all life is there. A man is not just 99 per cent chimpanzee; he is also 90 per cent mouse, 30 per cent lettuce and more than a smidgeon of brewer’s yeast as well....
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Pressure growing on Kibaki
NAIROBI: Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki is facing growing dissent within his own Kikuyu community over the way the election was conducted and his refusal to accept talks with the opposition under international mediation, it emerged on Jan 4, 2007....
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N. Korea, US feuding over N-plan
WASHINGTON: American and North Korean officials traded charges on Friday over the lagging effort to shut down Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, raising new doubts about an initiative that the Bush administration has hoped would yield a rare diplomatic success....
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