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| September 27, 2008 | Saturday | Ramazan 26, 1429 |
Arabs slam Israel over settlement policy at UN meeting
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26: Arab countries slammed Israel over its settlement expansion policy in the West Bank on Friday during a UN Security Council debate held only hours before a ministerial session of the Middle East diplomatic Quartet....
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Philippine army seizes Maoist rebel camp
MANILA, Sept 26: Philippine troops have seized a major communist guerilla base on the troubled southern island of Mindanao, killing at least eight rebels in air and ground attacks, an army spokesman said on Friday....
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US Congress urged to take cancer-cell phone link seriously
WASHINGTON, Sept 26: The potential link between mobile telephones and brain cancer could be similar to the link between lung cancer and smoking -- something tobacco companies took 50 years to recognise, US scientists warned on Friday....
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Book on Holocaust ‘fiction’ issued in Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 26: An Iranian publisher and student body has published a book of caricatures and satirical writings about the ‘fiction’ of the Holocaust, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported on Friday....
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Violence pushes Ingushetia towards civil war
NAZRAN: Russia thought it had tamed the Muslim regions on its southern flank when it quelled a rebellion in Chechnya, but trouble is brewing again....
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Russia to build space defence system
DONGUZ TESTING RANGE (Russia), Sept 26: Russia said on Friday it would build a space defence system and a new fleet of nuclear submarines by 2020, beefing up its nuclear deterrent at a time of heightened tensions with Washington....
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France refuses to pay for Awacs deployment
BERLIN, Sept 26: France is refusing to contribute financially to the deployment of Awacs radar aircraft to Afghanistan as requested by the Nato military alliance, a German defence ministry spokesman said on Friday....
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S. Africa in good hands: Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 26: South Africa’s first democratic leader Nelson Mandela on Friday congratulated new President Kgalema Motlanthe, saying the country was in “good hands” after a week of political turmoil....
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Eight Somali civilians killed
MOGADISHU, Sept 26: Islamist forces attacked guards protecting the Somali presidential palace on Friday sparking clashes in which eight civilians were killed, witnesses said....
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Bush tries to rescue Wall Street but leaves soldiers to die in Iraq
It was a weird week to be in the United States. On Tuesday, secretary of the treasury Henry Paulson told us that “this is all about the American taxpayer – that’s all we care about”....
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Bush holds Washington blame-free
WASHINGTON: How did it happen, America’s grave financial crisis? President George W. Bush offered a bunch of explanations but held Washington completely blameless, painting a picture of a government standing innocently on the sidelines as the economy went off the rails....
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Spain’s civil war dead resurface after decades of silence
IZAGRE: On a patch of land near this northern village, the forgotten remains of Republican victims of Spain’s 1936-39 civil war dead are reappearing, reviving painful memories for older residents....
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Unwelcome assault on freedom in England
TALK About an unwelcome arrival. The government has unveiled a small piece of plastic which represents a big threat to our historic liberties. The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, was showing off Britain’s first biometric ID cards on Thursday....
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What Palin’s choice of earrings tell us
On Sept 22, Sarah Palin arrived in New York to begin two days of talks with a succession of world leaders. As she stood in front of the mirror on Monday...
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Who calls the shots in film-making?
LONDON: In a review of My Cousin Vinny in 1992, I praised Joe Pesci for his performance in GoodFellas, claiming that one of the most satisfying things about Scorsese’s gangster picture was “discovering” Pesci in it....
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