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Opposition leader heads coalition cabinet in Kenya
NAIROBI, April 13: Kenya’s president unveiled a power-sharing government on Sunday, with opposition leader Raila Odinga as prime minister, aimed at ending a long-running political crisis sparked by contested elections....
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Mosque blast not an attack: Iran
TEHRAN, April 13: A blast in a mosque in Iran that killed at least 12 people was an accident and not an attack, a senior official said on Sunday, but others cautioned the investigation into the cause was continuing....
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Carter to meet Hamas
NEW YORK, April 13: Former US President Jimmy Carter has declared his intention to meet Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal during an upcoming trip to the Middle East, saying the Hamas group must be included in the peace process in the region....
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Israeli FM in Qatar
DOHA, April 13: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni arrived in Qatar on Sunday to address a forum on democracy and meet leaders of the gas-rich Gulf state, a source at the emirate’s international airport said....
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Kurd rebels threaten to attack Iran
MOUNT QANDIL (Iraq), April 13: A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country....
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Olmert meets Abbas
JERUSALEM, April 13: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held a surprise meeting on Sunday ahead of Abbas’s visit to Washington for talks with US President George Bush....
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Asean states irked by US moves in region
WASHINGTON: US-led moves to turn a forum grappling with the North Korean nuclear crisis into a permanent security mechanism are frustrating Southeast Asia’s bid to become a key player in regional security, experts say....
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Racism is British MPs’ ‘dirty little secret’
LONDON: The British House of Commons, held up as a beacon of democracy, has a ‘dirty little secret’, according to black MPs — its racism....
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Boycott by leaders to hurt athletes, says IOC chief: Olympic opening ceremony
BEIJING: World leaders wishing to deliver a snub to China over the situation in Tibet will hurt only their own athletes if they use the Beijing Games to make their point, according to Olympic officials here....
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Mobile devices stoke fervour of ‘micro blogging’
SAN FRANCISCO: Mobile Internet devices and online communities are merging to a new kind of web diary: “micro-blogging”, where people fire off terse missives about what they are doing or thinking at any given moment....
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Ex-BD minister stands in queue for rice
DHAKA: A former Bangladesh agriculture minister and member of the Awami League presidium, Matia Chowdhury, queued at a government outlet to buy rice, on Saturday. But she returned empty-handed as the day’s stock had run out....
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