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| October 30, 2008 | Thursday | Shawwal 30, 1429 |
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No reconciliation with Mullah Omar: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, Oct 29: The United States supports Afghan government efforts to reconcile with insurgents but not with Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who harboured Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday.... 
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US to use force against nuclear source: Gates: Production of new warhead mooted
WASHINGTON, Oct 29: US Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates has said that the United States would hold “fully accountable” any country that allowed terrorists to acquire weapons of mass destruction and...
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Labour mobility key to tackling global crisis: UN
MANILA, Oct 29: The financial crisis that has battered most industrialised countries is taking a heavy toll on the world’s millions of migrants, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday....
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Landslide for Obama forecast
WASHINGTON, Oct 29: A new poll of battleground states released on Wednesday show Democrat Barack Obama poised to pull off an electoral landslide by winning traditionally Republican states....
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Gayoom loses power after 30 years
MALE, Oct 29: The president of the Maldives for the past 30 years conceded electoral defeat on Wednesday to a former dissident he had repeatedly jailed during years of crusading for democracy on the tropical Indian Ocean archipelago....
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Hundreds bid farewell to airport famed for Berlin airlift
BERLIN, Oct 29: Hundreds of people bade farewell on Wednesday to Tempelhof airport, a massive Nazi-built landmark in the heart of the German capital that served as a lifeline for West Berlin during the post-war Soviet blockade....
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Peres, Olmert apologise to Mubarak
JERUSALEM, Oct 29: Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to apologise for inflammatory comments made against him by an Israeli lawmaker....
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Pakistani-Canadian convicted of terror charges
OTTAWA, Oct 29: Mohammed Momin Khawaja, the first Canadian tried under the country’s anti-terrorism law, was found guilty on Wednesday of five of seven charges, including participating in a foiled plot against several British targets....
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Maldives’ ex-political prisoner gets his revenge
MALE: The man who has ousted Asia’s longest-serving leader in the Maldives’ first democratic elections is a 41-year-old former political prisoner hailed by supporters as the islands’ own Nelson Mandela....
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Youth instrumental in Gayoom’s ouster
MALE: The Maldives is known around the world as a holiday paradise, but its residents face problems ranging from corruption and a lack of housing to child malnutrition and a serious youth drug problem....
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Sri Lankan rebel air raids show war not over
COLOMBO: Dual Tamil Tiger air raids on Sri Lanka’s capital and a northern military base show the guerrillas are not out of the fight despite the government’s confidence it is close to ending the 25-year-old civil war....
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Czech bug collector flees India
KOLKOTA: A Czech entomologist sentenced by an Indian court to three years in jail for illegal insect collecting has jumped bail and fled home, police said on Wednesday....
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Off-season climbs in Nepal rise after fee cut
KATHMANDU: The number of climbing expeditions to Himalayan mountains, including Mount Everest, has risen since Nepal reduced off season climbing fees three months ago, officials said on Wednesday....
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Prospect of peace talks gains momentum in Afghanistan
KABUL: The Afghan war is at its highest pitch since it began seven years ago, growing daily in scope and savagery. Yet on both sides of the conflict, the possibility of peace negotiations has gained sudden prominence....
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