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Somali rebels seize port near capital
MOGADISHU, Nov 12: Islamist rebels captured a port near the Somali capital on Wednesday without firing a shot, giving them their closest foothold to Mogadishu yet and raising the stakes in a two-year insurgency....
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Closing Guantanamo priority for Obama: WP
WASHINGTON, Nov 12: The Obama administration will launch an intensive effort to close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as soon as it takes charge, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday....
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Exiled Bhutan leader held over Assam blasts
GUWAHATI, Nov 12: Indian police arrested a senior Bhutanese refugee leader on Wednesday in connection with bomb attacks in the northeastern state of Assam that killed 86 people last month....
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Hasina ready to meet Khaleda
DHAKA, Nov 12: Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed is willing to meet her bitter rival Khaleda Zia in an effort to restore democratic rule to the country, one of her party officials said on Wednesday....
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HRW urges Egypt not to shoot Africans crossing into Israel
CAIRO, Nov 12: Egypt must stop shooting African migrants, including Sudanese refugees fleeing Darfur, when they try to make the dangerous trek over the Sinai desert border into Israel, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday....
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Immigrant rights groups plan march after Obama oath
WASHINGTON, Nov 12: Immigrant rights organisations have called for a major march on Washington on Jan 21, the day after Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th US president....
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India accused of forcing ceasefire on Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Nov 12: A week after President Mahinda Rajapakse told parliament that he was ready to welcome the LTTE into mainstream politics if the rebels were willing to enter the democratic...
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Russia rejects US missile defence proposals
MOSCOW, Nov 12: The Kremlin has rejected a second set of US proposals offered to assuage increasingly strident Russian criticism of plans for an American missile-defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, news agencies reported on Wednesday....
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Israeli troops kill four Palestinians: Clashes on Gaza border
GAZA CITY, Nov 12: Four Palestinian militants were killed and an Israeli soldier was wounded along the Gaza border on Wednesday in the latest flare-up to rattle a nearly five-month lull and imperil aid deliveries....
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Turkey offers to mediate between US, Iran
NEW YORK, Nov 12: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to play the role of a mediator between Iran and the new US administration of president-elect Barack Obama, using...
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Greenland confirms nuke went missing under ice in 1968
COPENHAGEN, Nov 12: Greenland confirmed on Wednesday a BBC report that claimed the United States abandoned a nuclear weapon under the ice in the Danish protectorate following a plane crash in 1968....
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Sudan president calls immediate Darfur ceasefire
KHARTOUM, Nov 12: Sudan’s President Omar al-Beshir on Wednesday called an immediate ceasefire in Darfur and a campaign to disarm feared militias in a speech dismissed by rebels as a propaganda stunt for the West....
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Hoax NY Times newspaper declares end of Iraq war
NEW YORK, Nov 12: A group of pranksters handed out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City and Los Angeles on Wednesday with a front page story declaring “Iraq War Ends”....
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Men spray acid at Afghan school girls, 15 injured
KANDAHAR, Nov 12: Attackers used a water pistol to spray acid at schoolgirls in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday, hurting 15 of them, three seriously, the education ministry said....
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Concern over plight of Palestinians
LONDON, Nov 12: An international delegation on its return on Wednesday after a three-day visit to Gaza Strip expressed pain and sadness over what its leader Lord Nazir said the scale of human suffering in the territory....
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Freighter spills oil off Taiwan
TAIPEI, Nov 12: A freighter that ran aground off the north coast of Taiwan has spilled more than 100 tonnes of heavy oil that is threatening wildlife in the region, officials said on Wednesday.—AFP...
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Russia’s ageing navy still packs a deadly punch
ABOARD THE MOSKVA MISSILE CRUISER: This Russian warship left the shipyard 25 years ago and it shows: the electronics consoles look like museum exhibits and its hull carries a thick crust of paint from years of running repairs....
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Truth about the war in Georgia
THANK goodness, they might be thinking at the US State Department and the British Foreign Office, for the financial crisis. Were it not for the ever-blacker news about the Western world’s...
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Bangladeshi architects fight to save capital’s treasures
DHAKA: Taimur Islam points to the ruins of a grand building in Bangladesh’s capital and says wearily: “This is our only so-called success story.”...
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Where could the Maldives people escape to?
So what do you do if you are the newly elected president of a small, relatively impoverished country whose greatest claim to fame, besides arguably the finest beaches in the world,...
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