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April 25, 2008 Friday Rabi-us-Sani 18, 1429 UN suspends aid to 650,000 Gazans: Israel stops fuel supply GAZA CITY, April 24: The United Nations stopped distributing aid to the Gaza Strip on Thursday after running out of fuel as the Israeli terminal that supplies the besieged Palestinian territory remained shut.... N. Korea helped Syria build N-plant: CIA WASHINGTON, April 24: The White House and the CIA told key lawmakers in secret on Thursday that North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor at a site destroyed by an Israeli raid in September.... Libya compares Gaza situation to Nazi camps: US, UK stage walk out in protest UNITED NATIONS, April 24: The United States, Britain, France and other members walked out of a closed meeting of the UN Security Council late on Wednesday after Libya compared the situation in Gaza to Nazi concentration camps in World War II.... China recalls ship carrying arms for Zimbabwe BEIJING, April 24: The Chinese government on Thursday decided to bring back the ship that sparked international condemnation for attempting to transport weapons to Zimbabwe.... German commission criticises spy agency: Monitoring of Afghan minister’s email BERLIN, April 24: Germany’s foreign intelligence service came under fire on Thursday after it emerged that the agency illicitly monitored emails between an Afghan minister and a journalist.... No general amnesty for illegal migrants: France PARIS, April 24: France will give work permits to hundreds of illegal immigrants on a case-by-case basis but will not offer a general amnesty, the government said on Thursday.... US general says Afghan violence can worsen KABUL, April 24: Afghanistan could see higher levels of violence this year with many Taliban attacks in the east of the country originating from across the border in Pakistan, a top US military commander said on Thursday.... Sugarcane-based diesel biofuel SAO PAULO, April 24: A new diesel biofuel derived from sugarcane is to be launched in Brazil after an accidental discovery made while researching malaria cures, the US and Brazilian companies producing it said.... Study shows how smallpox virus tricks healthy cells LONDON, April 24: A virus closely related to smallpox disguises itself as a piece of a broken cell to trick its way into cells, Swiss researchers said on Thursday in a discovery that could lead to better drugs and vaccines.... Artificially cooling Earth may prove perilous: study WASHINGTON, April 24: Radical proposals to inject sulfur particles into the Earth’s stratosphere to cool it down and battle global warming could instead badly damage the ozone layer, a study warned today .... Prisoners hold police officers in Lebanon jail BEIRUT, April 24: Prisoners rioted, seized control of a building and held seven police officers captive at a jail in Lebanon on Thursday, a security source said.... India has ‘highest incidence’ of heart disease PARIS, April 24: By 2010, India will carry 60 per cent of the world’s heart disease burden, nearly four times more than its share of the global population, according to a study.... Flavoured milk ‘as healthy for kids as plain’ NEW YORK, April 24: Despite its added sugar, flavoured milk may be better for kids than no milk at all, and may even be as healthy as the plain variety, a study of US children suggests.... Colombo unmoved by heavy losses in LTTE fight COLOMBO, April 24: Despite the Tamil Tiger rebels Wednesday inflicting the heaviest losses on security forces in months, military and government officials on Thursday insisted that they would forge ahead with offensives aimed at annihilating the LTTE.... Afghans hit hard by rising world food prices KABUL: Already one of the poorest countries in the world, Afghanistan has been hit hard by the rising price of food and while some Afghans have taken to the streets to protest most wonder how they will get by.... Film fairs: the best way to see the world LONDON: I first fell in love with film festivals more than a decade ago in Berlin. On a snowy winter’s day, nose pressed to the frozen pane of a bus window,... Obama’s show LONDON: The maths is still the maths. But after Hillary Clinton’s substantial win over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary, the maths is now competing with the mo - that is, momentum.... Nepal Maoists not ready to abandon armed struggle KATHMANDU: Nepal’s former Maoist rebels, on the verge of becoming the country’s largest political party after a historic election, said on Thursday they were committed to the peace process but would not yet renounce violence completely.... Sri Lanka war set for long haul as LTTE ups the ante COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s hopes of a quick victory over Tamil separatists looked shattered on Thursday after Tamil rebels inflicted the heaviest losses on security forces since pulling out of a truce, analysts said.... Mugabe’s ‘democracy’ WASHINGTON: Words are deadly in today’s Zimbabwe. “Winner”, “recount”, “treason” and “democracy” carry barbs and built-in explosives. Ordinary Zimbabweans are suffering at the hands of an authoritarian regime with no sense of proportion or timing, a dictatorship with no scruples.... Polishing Al Qaeda’s brand image SHINGTON: “How can a man in a cave outcommunicate the world’s leading communications society?”...

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