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Cambodia’s ultimatum to Thailand: Withdraw troops within 24 hours
PHNOM PENH, Oct 13: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen gave Thailand an ultimatum on Monday to withdraw troops from a disputed stretch of jungle-clad border within 24 hours or his forces would turn the area into a “death zone”....
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Peres urges end to Jew-Arab tension
ACRE, (Israel), Oct 13: Israeli President Shimon Peres called on Monday for reconciliation between the Arabs and Jews of Acre, where five days of rioting exposed deep-seated tensions and raised fears of a nationwide chain reaction....
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Obama lays out fresh economic proposals
TOLEDO (Ohio), Oct 13: Democratic presidential nominee Sen Barack Obama on Monday proposed four steps to create jobs and to cushion Americans against the effects of the economic downturn as he campaigned in an area hit hard by the slowdown....
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Iran summons UK envoy over freeing of gunman
TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Britain’s ambassador to protest the release from prison of the only surviving member of a group of gunmen who seized the Iranian embassy in London in 1980, media said on Monday....
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N. Korea restores UN access to nuclear site
VIENNA, Oct 13: North Korea on Monday restored access for UN monitors to its atom bomb complex following a deal with Washington to salvage a denuclearisation process endangered by disputes over verification, diplomats said....
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Fame shocks 106-year-old supporter of Obama
ROME, Oct 13: A 106-year-old American nun was ‘startled and a bit anguished’ over the attention she was getting after appearing on television saying she was voting for Barack Obama, her order said on Monday....
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Anti-corruption academy
VIENNA, Oct 13: The UN anti-crime agency and Interpol said on Monday they would create an academy teaching officials worldwide how to curb corruption, which sucks roughly $1 trillion a year out of the global economy....
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UK interpreter became spy for Iran, court told
LONDON, Oct 13: A soldier became a spy for Iran after missing out on promotion and suffering what he perceived as racism, a court heard on Monday....
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Lithuanian govt fails to win public support for N-plant
VILNIUS, Oct 13: Lithuania vowed on Monday to push for extending the lifespan of its Ignalina nuclear power plant after a referendum failed to support the government’s case against EU demands to close it by the end of 2009....
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EU cautions youth over MP3 players
BRUSSELS, Oct 13: Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned on Monday....
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BD poll body extends deadline for registration
DHAKA, Oct 13: Bangladesh’s Election Commission extended a deadline on Monday for registration of political parties by five days in a further effort to woo all major parties to take part in the parliamentary election due on Dec 18....
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Japan needs more immigrants
TOKYO, Oct 13: Japan’s most powerful business lobby will change its long-held policy and call on the nation to accept more immigrants, Mainichi newspaper reported on Monday, as the world’s fastest ageing nation faces serious labour shortages....
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Aborigines term Australian govt’s intervention racist
CANBERRA, Oct 13: Aborigines feel a strong sense of injustice over an Australian government intervention into scores of troubled remote communities and believe the programme is racist, an independent review said on Monday....
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China urges end of US arms sales to Taiwan
BEIJING: China’s defence minister on Monday told a leading United States Congressman the US must immediately abolish weapon sales to Taiwan to protect Sino-US ties, state press reported....
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Flight of Iraqi Christians eases
MOSUL: Police reinforcements have helped stem the flight of Christians from their homes in Mosul, a local official said on Monday, as the United Nations voiced concern at the community’s plight in the northern Iraqi city....
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First Syrian ambassador to Iraq in 26 years
BAGHDAD: Syria’s first ambassador to Iraq in 26 years took up his post in Baghdad on Monday, marking the official end of more than two decades of frosty relations, the government said....
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Singapore PM wins defamation damages
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s high court ordered an opposition party and its leaders to pay $415,800 in defamation damages to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father Lee Kuan Yew, court documents showed on Monday....
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Impeachment case filed against Arroyo
MANILA: Opposition groups in the Philippines filed an impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Monday, but admitted they did not have the numbers in Congress to make it stick....
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Immigrants flee as police collude with smugglers.
PUEBLA (Mexico): Thirty four Central American immigrants have escaped from a house in Mexico where local police had been colluding with people traffickers to keep them prisoner, an official said Monday....
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Cooperatives show new face of rural China
HARBIN (China): Burly and dressed in an ill-fitting Western suit, 50-year-old Chen Yangui is the epitome of the modern farmer with Chinese characteristics....
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Environmental crime thriving in developing world: report
Criminal syndicates are earning more than $10bn a year from a booming environmental crime business in rainforest logging, the trade in endangered animal skins and ivory and smuggling canisters of banned gas refrigerants....
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Townships condemn feuding ANC
Gugulethu (Cape Town): Amid repetitive rows of housing units, Ncedo Kanti’s yellow container stands out as a burst of colour and modernity. The young entrepreneur’s phone centre has linked Gugulethu to the outside world....
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Hoxha’s 100th birth anniversary celebrated
GJIROKASTER (Albania): Diehard supporters of Albania’s late Stalinist dictator, Enver Hoxha, joined his son to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth on Monday, hoping history would one day restore his now-tarnished image....
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First woman on banknote in Turkey
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s central bank has been criticised by secularists for choosing a previously obscure Ottoman writer as the first woman to adorn the country’s banknotes....
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Kundera denies betraying deserter
PRAGUE: Czech-born writer Milan Kundera denied on Monday accusations that he denounced a Czech deserter to the communist police in 1950....
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How Hollywood learned to be serious
Hollywood is betting the house this weekend. Warner Bros is gambling that a $100m budget, megawatt stars – Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe – and an A-list director, Sir Ridley Scott,...
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