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| August 30, 2008 | Saturday | Sha'aban 27, 1429 |
Protesters raid police HQ, disrupt airports: Thailand in turmoil
BANGKOK, Aug 29: Protesters trying to overthrow Thailand’s government attacked Bangkok’s police headquarters on Friday as demonstrations against Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej spread from the capital, disrupting air and rail services....
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Indian villagers desperate as floods spread
PATRAGHAT (India), Aug 29: A boat carrying dozens of flood victims overturned in eastern India, killing at least 20 people and raising to 85 the death toll while hunger and disease stalked the worst-ever floods in 50 years....
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Georgia breaks ties with Russia
TBILISI, Aug 29: Georgia on Friday broke diplomatic relations with Russia, heightening hostilities between the neighbours as Moscow also hit back at western criticism....
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Sri Lankan troops capture two LTTE bases
COLOMBO, Aug 29: The Sri Lankan military captured two strategic northern Tamil Tiger bases after fierce clashes killing around 35 rebels as the army continued to push towards the rebel headquarters in Killinochchi, the Defence Ministry said on Friday....
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New laws on immigration worry Asians in Britain
LONDON, Aug 29: The UK-based Asian catering industry has expressed serious concern over the new British immigration laws, saying that it would badly hurt their businesses....
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Gustav threatens to grow into hurricane
KINGSTON, Aug 29: Tropical Storm Gustav battered Jamaica on Friday, dumping rain and ripping roofs off homes and threatened to grow into a hurricane after leaving 59 people dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic....
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N-iodine leak terrorises Belgian town
FLEURUS (Belgium), Aug 29: A recent leak of radioactive iodine at a medical laboratory had residents in the southern Belgian town of Fleurus in anxiety on Friday as authorities warned of contamination risks....
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Obama, Biden descended from Irish cobblers: researcher
DUBLIN, Aug 29: Both US presidential hopeful Barack Obama and running mate Joseph Biden are descended from shoemakers who emigrated from Ireland within five weeks of each other, a researcher said on Friday....
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Peaceful protests in Kashmir alter equation for India
SRINAGAR: Inside dozens of cramped kitchens in this Kashmiri city on Saturday, mothers and daughters prepared pots of rice for the hundreds of thousands expected at a sit-in two days later....
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New crisis as refugees flee to Kenya
DADAAB (northern Kenya): An increasingly violent insurgency in Somalia is fuelling a fresh refugee crisis with nearly 40,000 people arriving at a desert camp in north-eastern Kenya this year despite the border being closed.The...
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Why do we keep letting the politicians get away with lies?
How on earth do they get away with it? Let’s start with war between Hezbollah and Israel – past and future war, that is....
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Ecuador pressures Colombia over spillover of rebels
SAN LORENZO (Ecuador): With no sign of a thaw in their frozen diplomatic relations, Ecuador this week called on Colombia to increase its military presence along their shared border to check the spillover of rebel groups, drug trafficking and war refugees....
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Disneyfication of the Holocaust
After the Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz won the Nobel prize for literature in 2002, his little-known 1975 novel Fatelessness, about his own childhood deportation to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, was filmed, with a script by Kertesz himself....
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