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| December 02, 2008 | Tuesday | Zilhaj 3, 1429 |
Obama names Hillary as top diplomat
CHICAGO, Dec 1: Barack Obama on Monday nominated Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state and his former foe vowed to give her all to steer America through a perfect storm of global crises....
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Blasts kill 30 in two Iraq cities
BAGHDAD, Dec 1: A spate of attacks targeting security forces in the heart of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul killed around 30 people on Monday — the bloodiest day in Iraq in three weeks....
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350,000 travellers unable to leave Thailand
BANGKOK, Dec 1: An estimated 350,000 passengers have been unable to fly out of Thailand since anti-government protesters shut down Bangkok’s two airports last week, a senior tourism official said on Monday....
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10 Afghans killed in bomb attack
KABUL, Dec 1: A suicide attack against police forces at a crowded market on Monday killed 10 people including two officers and wounded another 27 in southern Afghanistan, police said....
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Maoists seize bomb-making material in India
RANCHI (India), Dec 1: Suspected Maoist rebels in the eastern Indian state of Jharkand hijacked a truck loaded with 23 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that was bound for an explosives factory, police said on Monday....
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End to Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict not in sight
COLOMBO, Dec 1: The ethnic conflict which has plagued Sri Lanka for the past 25 years would not end even if LTTE supremo Vellupillai Prabhakaran dies in the near future, according...
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Youths invade mosque in Nigeria
JOS (Nigeria), Dec 1: Two thousand angry youths stormed a mosque in the riot-torn city of Jos on Monday as a top parliament official appealed for an end to religious troubles that have left hundreds dead, witnesses said....
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France’s first lady joins fight against Aids
PARIS, Dec 1: France’s glamorous first lady threw her considerable star power behind the global fight against Aids on Monday, as the world tallied the victims of the HIV virus that infects a new person every 15 seconds....
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Nigerian unrest shows risk from ethnic weapon
JOS (Nigeria): An outburst of bloodletting at the cusp of Nigeria’s Muslim north and Christian south shows how easily ethnic and religious rivalries can be exploited to political ends in Africa’s most populous nation....
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‘Cancer village’ the dark side of Vietnam’s industrial boom
THACH SON (Vietnam): Gazing at the Soviet-era factory that looms over his northern Vietnamese commune, Quang Van Vinh remembers what the farmland here looked like before it became known as a “cancer village”....
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Ethnic rifts affect Bosnia’s sick convicts in jail
ZENICA (Bosnia): Daniel Marinic, a convicted murderer, is a victim of Bosnia’s ethnic rivalries: he must remain in a prison unit for convicts with psychiatric disorders even though his imprisonment is against the law....
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A Quixote who tells it like it is
Graham Greene, many of whose best books were set in Latin America, was baffled by critics who ‘referred to a strange, violent, seedy region of the mind which they called Greeneland’....
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Jordan gets Mideast’s first female demining team
NICOSIA: Sabah Masaeed’s father, a Jordanian shepherd, lost a leg several years ago when he stepped on a landmine. So did her uncle....
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