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Palestinian militants showered southern Israel with rockets Wednesday, causing Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak to reverse a decision to open Gaza Strip crossing points to allow an aid convoy to enter the salient.
By Wednesday evening, more than 70 rockets and mortar shells were launched from Gaza, causing no injuries but damage...
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 The latest attacks carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip led to the killing of at least 20 Palestinians, including four children aged between 9 and 16. At least six Palestinian militants were killed in the fire exchange and five Israeli troops suffered minor wounds after tanks entered three areas in northern Gaza.The...
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 Thousands of Palestinians continued to cross into Egypt for
the fourth consecutive day despite the authorities’ efforts to seal the border
with Gaza.
A United Nations report said more than 700.000 people from
the Hamas-ruled salient took advantage of the free passage and bought needed supplies
from the neighboring country over the...
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 Lebanon's parliament session scheduled for Friday was postponed
Thursday after rival leaders failed to reach consensus to elect a
president for the country, a Lebanese government source said.
"The session will be postponed and it will be announced soon by parliament speaker Nabih Berri," the source said.
Parliament was...
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 During his visit to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's President
Pervez Musharraf made no attempt to contact exiled opposition leader Nawaz
Sharif.
"This time no one contacted me," said Sharif, who
Musharraf deposed in 1999 and has sought to marginalize during a period of
intense political uncertainty in Pakistan that climaxed...
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 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called Sunday on Arab countries to
attend "without conditions" the upcoming international conference on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Stressing that the conference was only "a beginning", she told a
news conference in Jerusalem with French Foreign Minister...
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 According to Sri Lanka's military, 52 Tamil Tigers and 11 soldiers were killed in fresh fighting in the island's far north on Wednesday as renewed civil war escalates. However, the rebels disputed the numbers.The Tigers said 20 soldiers were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the clash on the Jaffna peninsula, and that just one of...
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 According to local reports, the fights between Sri Lankan
military and Tamil Tiger rebels seem to have intensified over the past weeks,
especially in the northern parts were they have seeded fear in civilians.
The Sri Lankan
military and Tamil Tiger rebels seem to be gearing up for a major confrontation
in the north of the...
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 During the summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad raised and condemned the US strategic plans of settling missile
defense bases in Eastern Europe, suggesting that this would be a means of
threatening countries that oppose US influence.
Russia also objected fiercely against the...
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 Lebanese troops began shelling remaining Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp early Thursday, three soldiers being killed during intense fire exchange.Several members of the al-Qaeda inspired terrorist group refused to surrender, prompting the army to renew artillery fire against them. Militants sniped down a...
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 BBC’s correspondent flew back to Britain on Saturday after being held captive for almost four months by members of the Palestinian militant group Army of Islam, Israeli media reported.Three days after being released, Johnston decided to return in Scotland for some peace and quiet with his family.Wednesday, he was freed by the...
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 A new attempt to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was reported Friday, after several anti-aircraft rockets were fired at his airplane shortly after it took off from a military base.The perpetrators weren’t identified, but the launchers and casings were recovered by security forces shortly after the attack in Rawalpindi, a...
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 The conflict between followers of radical clerics inside the Red Mosque and governmental forces moved to the next level on Thursday after army troops destroyed a wall and entered the compound attempting to swiftly end the three-day standoff.Thousands of soldiers were deployed in Islamabad as part of “Operation Silence,” rocket-propelled...
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Washington - The White House has agreed to a 13.4-billion- dollar emergency loan to keep the iconic US car industry alive and avoid an even deeper economic recession in the United States, President George W Bush announced Friday.
The federal funds come with tough conditions. General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC will have to prove they...
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 The second bank in the United States, Bank of America, declared on Tuesday that it will have to write down around three billion dollars in debt securities in the fourth quarter, as a cause to the subprime mortgages crisis.Moreover, Chief Financial Officer, Joe Prince declared that if the crises deepens, and losses of the loans keep on...
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 Dell Inc. reported $759 million revenue, or 34 cents per share, for the first quarter which ended on May 4. A year ago, it reported earnings of $762 million, or 33 cents a share. Sales in the most recent quarter were flat, at $14.6 billion. The American computer-hardware company based in Round Rock, Texas beat analysts' predicted...
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 Alltel Corp., the nation's largest U.S. cell-phone provider (by geographic area), said Sunday it has agreed to be sold to a consortium of private equity firms for $27.5 billion. The private taking of Alltel by investment firms TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners is the largest yet in the U.S. telecommunications industry.According to the...
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The suddenly slumping Boston Celtics have lost their way and some of their swagger.
China's Yao Ming scored 26 points, Von Wafer drilled the go-ahead three-pointer with 44 seconds left and the Houston Rockets sent the the Celtics to their third straight loss, with an 89-85 victory on Wednesday night.
The stumbling Rockets (22-15)...
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Filmmakers in Bollywood, India's prolific film industry based in Mumbai, have registered about 30 titles for movie projects about the November terrorist attacks, a news report said Thursday.
26 Taj, Operation 5 Star Mumbai and Bird's Point of View: Taj Terror are some of the titles that have been registered by film-makers planning...
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The troubles of Bolivia's President Evo Morales triggered a spiral of diplomatic tension between Washington and the leftist governments in La Paz and Caracas.
The United States and Bolivia already announced the pull-out of their respective ambassadors.
Thursday evening, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, entered the fray, turning...
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The organizers of the Beijing Olympics on
Thursday rejected criticism from the US House of Representatives, which
accused China of cracking down on dissidents ahead of the Games.
Sun Weide, spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee, said in
Beijing that the committee opposed any attempts to politicize the
August 8-24 Games...
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 After several unsuccessful attempts, archaeologists have
finally discovered the remains of the boyhood home of the first United States
President, George Washington. The house was found on a site just across the Rappahannock River,
in Stafford County, Virginia, on a property now known as Ferry
Farm, only 50 miles south of the capital...
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Police investigations have shown that six teens have tried
to copy the virtual life of a video game in the real life, by several
robberies, a crime, a fight and a car-jacking. The police didn’t know first
about the real intentions of the boys, that were to copy the happenings of the
game, but they found it out during the...
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In the last months, veterans’ advocates and
members of the Congress tried to gather precise information regarding veterans’
suicides. They suspected the Veterans Affairs Department for disclosure of data
and their hunch was confirmed when an email surfaced during a trial.
Dr Ira Katz, head of mental health services
for Veterans...
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 “I loved her” U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean surprisingly told
a Mexican reporter when asked why he killed his colleague, a 20-year-old woman
who was eight months pregnant. Her body and that of her fetus were found later
on beneath a fire pit in Laurean’s backyard in Onslow County.
According to an FBI statement made public on...
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 Several contract workers and employees viewed the passport
files of all three presidential candidates, the State Department said Friday. Officials
are investigating the episodes but they claim the actions were not politically
motivated and the workers were probably guided by “imprudent curiosity.” Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice...
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 A man living in Canada claims to be the love child of the former
U. S.
president John F. Kennedy, and is asking the Kennedy family to permit a DNA
test that would confirm his origin.
Jack Worthington presented his
passport and driver’s license that indicate that his date of birth is November
22, 1961. This implies the fact...
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 Four people were arrested on Monday, for transferring important American secrets to China, CNN reports. The cases involved three Chinese nationals and one Defense official.
Kenneth L. Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security, declared for the Washington Times that, of all 140 intelligence agencies that try to...
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 Lawyers for prisoners in the war on terrorism appeared before the US
Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking the right for their clients to
challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the federal court
system.
The cases, Boumediene versus Bush and al-Odah versus the United
States, marked the third time in as many years...
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 After last week, when 12 dolphins died after being stranded for
more than a week in the waters of shallow creek in the East Hampton’s, three
more showed-up yesterday. According to local sources, it appears that this time
the police will not interfere and leave them be without trying to send them
back to deeper waters.
The dolphins...
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Israel said Wednesday that it viewed as "positive" the Egyptian-French attempts to advance a diplomatic solution ot the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
A terse official statement said:
"Israel is working to improve the security reality in the south of the country. Israel thanks Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak and French...
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Israel said Wednesday that it viewed as "positive" the Egyptian-French attempts to advance a diplomatic solution ot the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
A terse official statement said:
"Israel is working to improve the security reality in the south of the country. Israel thanks Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak and...
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The Zimbabwe government was backtracking Friday on remarks by President Robert Mugabe this week that there was "no cholera" in the country.
George Charamba, Mugabe's official spokesman, said that Mugabe's assertion was "sarcasm," meant to highlight "the absurdity" of what the regime sees as Western moves...
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Somali pirates have demanded 25 million dollars for the release of a Saudi-owned supertanker seized at the weekend, reports said Thursday.
Mohamed Said, one of the pirates, gave a deadline of ten days for the ransom to be paid, threatening "disastrous" consequences otherwise, Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera...
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Somali pirates have demanded a ransom for a Saudi supertanker carrying around 100 million dollars worth of crude oil amid reports Wednesday that another ship had been seized and that an Indian warship had destroyed a pirate vessel.
"Negotiators are on the ship and on land," Farah Abd Jameh, who claimed to be a member of the...
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A Greek ship has become the third vessel seized by Somali pirates since they took control of a Saudi supertanker over the weekend in their most daring raid yet, a maritime official said Wednesday.
Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme said he had received reports that a Greek ship was taken on Tuesday...
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Somali pirates achieved a new milestone in their seemingly unstoppable rise this weekend when they seized a Saudi Arabian supertanker laden with two million barrels of oil worth almost 100 million dollars.
It seems that every month there is a new first for the pirates, who have dramatically increased the frequency of their attacks...
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Tributes began pouring in Monday for South African singer and anti-apartheid icon, Miriam Makeba, who died Sunday from a heart attack in an Italian clinic.
Makeba, 76, collapsed shortly after a performance on Sunday evening and was brought by ambulance to a hospital in Castel Volturno in southern Italy, where she died, a hospital...
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South African Tourism gave world football body FIFA the red card over accommodation for the 2010 World Cup, accusing the FIFA-appointed booking agency of bullying small hotels and Bed and breakfasts on pricing, the Business Day newspaper reported.
SA Tourism on Monday resigned in protest from the advisory committe of Match, the...
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A delegation of senior members of the Palestinian group Hamas arrived in Cairo Tuesday for talks with Egyptian officials aimed at ending the Hamas-Fatah power struggle in Gaza and the West Bank and achieving Palestinian national reconciliation.
Headed by Musa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of Hamas' political bureau, the delegation is...
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Somali pirates have hijacked a Japanese tanker and an Iranian cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden just two days after a Malaysian ship was seized, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said Thursday.
The BBC quoted IMB head Noel Choong as telling reporters in Kuala Lumpar that the ships were seized on Thursday morning.
There are...
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Pirates have hijacked a Malaysian tanker with over 20 crew members on board in the Gulf of Aden, the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting centre said Wednesday.
The body said that the ship, which is carrying crude palm oil, is thought to be heading into Somali coast waters.
A ransom demand is expected to be issued...
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 The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
officially called for an arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
accusing him of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity executed
during the past five years of atrocities in the Darfur
region of his country.
The prosecutor’s chase of the...
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 The U.S.
government has announced that it is strengthening security for its team in Sudan after an
international prosecutor made a move into arresting Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir and his actions set off concerns regarding dangerous repercussions.
On Monday, Washington
unexpectedly ceased to offer its support to the attempts...
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 Former UN chief Kofi Annan mediated another round of talks between Kenyan rival parties, urging them to reach a consensus that will end the bloodshed.Reports said Annan gave both camps two deadlines for talks in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, as inter-ethnic violence continued to claim lives in the east African country.Kenyan President Mwai...
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 Ghanaian President John Kufuor on Thursday ended his mediation efforts
in the Kenyan election dispute without any visible success as
newly-elected President Mwai Kibaki began swearing in his new cabinet
in Nairobi.
Further talks would be chaired by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, Kufuor said before flying back to...
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 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during a congress of his ruling
ZANU(PF) party on Thursday became its sole presidential candidate in
elections due next year.
There was no vote or debate among the 10,000 delegates. The
chairmen of each of the party's 10 provincial organizations read out
reports in which they said he had been...
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 South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has termed the divisive
race for the leadership of the ruling African National Congress an
"unedifying spectacle" and urged ANC members not to choose leaders who
"will make us hang our heads in shame."
The popular Anglican archbishop was writing in the weekly...
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 In a recent press release quoting President, the Chad
president said attempts by a group of French citizens to fly more than 100
African children out of Chad were "shocking,'' and promised that all those
found involved would be punished.
Deby traveled Friday to an eastern city where 103 children
were being cared for after...
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Israel pressed on with both its air and ground offensive in Gaza on Thursday, as government officials were due to travel to Cairo to discuss Egyptian-French truce proposals.
Residents reported heavy shelling in the southern Gaza border town of Rafah overnight, as an Israeli military spokesman said Israel bombed another 15...
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Around 40 people were taken into custody Wednesday in the latest wave of arrests connected to a shadowy nationalist gang that prosecutors claim was conspiring to overthrow Turkey's moderate Islamic government, Turkish media reported.
Those taken into custody on Wednesday included retired generals, former police officers, academics and...
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Japan's industrial output suffered a record fall in November, as unemployment numbers rose and slowing inflation rates raised deflation fears, officials said Friday.
The Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry said production dropped by 8.1 per cent compared to the previous month, the largest drop on record since 1953, as foreign...
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Dhaka has alleged three Indian ships illegally entered Bangladesh's territorial waters to carry out hydrocarbon exploration activities in the Bay of Bengal, media reports said Friday.
Foreign ministry officials said the government protested the Indian intrusion into Bangladesh's maritime boundary and on Thursday night dispatched a...
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In recent years, the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has done more welfare work than many other national and international non-profit organizations in Pakistan.
But its suspected affiliation with the militant group Lahkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is believed to be behind November 26 Mumbai attacks, landed it Wednesday on the...
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Pakistan was the "epicentre of terrorism" and the world needed to deal with it sternly, during a parliamentary debate Thursday on the Mumbai terrorist attacks which took place last month.
"We have to galvanize the international community into dealing sternly and effectively...
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India expects Pakistan to take serious follow-up action against elements it believes were behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks by dismantling their infrastructure, India's Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in parliament Thursday.
Making the first official statement after the Pakistani prime minister said two men named by India...
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Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades.
Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...
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A ferry with 175 passengers on board ran aground on approaching the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife, shipping company Fred Olsen said Wednesday.
The passengers and crew were evacuated unharmed after the accident off the port of Los Cristianos on southern Tenerife in the Canary Islands late Tuesday.
MS Bonanza Express suffered...
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A child was killed and three people were seriously wounded when a powerful explosion ripped through a stage at a cultural festival in southern Nepal, police said Friday.
The bombing in the town of Gaur in the Rautahat district, about 100 kilometres south of Kathmandu and close to the Indian border, killed an 8-year-old boy, police...
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Former Bangladeshi prime ministers and arch political rivals Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia exchanged greetings Friday at a reception to honour the country's military. It was their first face-to-face meeting in 18 years.
Private television channels aired live footage of the two meeting at the Armed Forces Day reception in Senakunja in...
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Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus sent a letter to his Georgian counterpart, Mikheil Saakashvili, Friday congratulating him on five years in power and criticizing Russian "brutality".
"Five years ago, Georgia proclaimed to the world its resolve to embark on the path of freedom, democracy and reforms. You well knew...
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A Saudi Arabian supertanker hijacked by pirates has anchored near the Somali port of Harardhere, but there are no plans to attempt to free the ship and its crew, a Somali official said Tuesday.
The tanker Sirius Star, which was sailing under a Liberian flag, was seized Saturday by Somali pirates 450 nautical miles south-east of the...
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Israeli caretaker prime minister Ehud Olmert wants to start direct negotiations with Syria by January, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday.
Olmert wants to upgrade the talks despite internal criticism by members of both the opposition and coalition, who say he lacks the legitimacy to negotiate during his final months in...
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Singapore shares went through another selling spree Wednesday on reports the city state is likely to experience negative economic growth next year.
The Straits Times Index (STI) fell 1.3 per cent, or 22.95 points, to 1,784.01.
The STI was down by 22.51 points at mid-day.
The Singapore Exchange closed with 250 losers against 177...
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Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked militant movement, on Monday denied any links with the September 27 bomb attack in the Syrian capital that killed 17 people.
"We deny any involvement in the Damascus blast ... and the allegations which were shown on (Syrian) television," Fatah al-Islam said in a statement faxed to the media...
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China should work more closely with the European Union to boost development and stability in Africa, EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday said.
Both the EU and China play a growing role in Africa, and "in this new context, it would seem advantageous to coordinate the EU's and China's efforts more closely around...
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The hardline opposition Likud party submitted a bill to parliament Monday, which if passed would make it illegal for any Israeli transitional government to conduct peace talks and give up territory.
The bill is another effort by the party to block attempts by Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to negotiate a peace treaty...
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In a new Vatican exhibition, Pope Pius XII's more mundane belongings - his heavily-worn shoes and portable typewriter - have gone on show, along with World War II-era radio transcripts in which he purportedly denounced totalitarian rule, including Nazism.
"The purpose is to allow the general public to get to know the full life...
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The influence of the US and the EU in the Middle East and the Caucasus is dwindling, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Friday.
Speaking on the edges of the World Economic Forum meeting in Istanbul, Mottaki said the most recent Western attempts to intervene in the Caucasus following August's war in Georgia were...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that his discussions with Indian leaders reaffirmed his belief that India was ready to play a greater role on the world stage.
"I was only a year old when India became a UN member state, and it is truly impressive how much this country has achieved since then as a leading voice in...
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Pakistani troops fired at Indian forward positions along a de facto border between the two countries in Jammu and Kashmir state, a news report said Tuesday.
The Pakistani troops fired rockets, mortars and small arms in forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch region late Monday night, a senior Indian army officer...
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Five Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Sudan have been slain by their abductors, the Chinese embassy in Khartoum said.
Sudanese authorities told the embassy Monday that five of nine Chinese workers abducted on October 19 were killed, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
Two more of the abducted workers were missing,...
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The Lebanese Shiite militant movement Hezbollah denied on Friday rumors that its leader Hassan Nasrallah had been poisoned.
"It's a fabricated story - only rumors," Galeb Abu Zainab, a member of Hezbollah's political bureau was quoted as saying.
On Wednesday, the Iraqi website Almalaf reported that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres gave Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni a two-week extension Monday for forming a new government to replace that headed by outgoing Premier Ehud Olmert.
The extension was given after Livni met with Peres for an hour and 15 minutes Monday morning, to request the additional fortnight and to brief him on her...
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While the global financial crisis has driven investors around the world to buy dollars in a flight to quality, depositors in Vietnam have been doing the opposite recently, shifting money from dollars into Vietnamese dong, bank officers said Monday.
For years, Vietnamese have preferred to save money in dollar-denominated accounts as a...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres gave Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Monday a two-week extension to the period allocated to her to form a new government to replace that headed by outgoing Premier Ehud Olmert.
Livni met with Peres for an hour and 15 minutes Monday morning, and briefed him on her attempts to form a "stable and...
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A United Nations food convoy consisting of 50 trucks heading to rebel-held areas in northern Sri Lanka, where tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced, was forced to turn back Thursday due to firing by the rebels, the military claimed.
A military statement said that the trucks turned back at Puliyankulam, 280 kilometres...
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The Iraqi Ministry of Interior has launched investigations into cases of 48 media personnel who were either killed or subjected to acts of violence, the director of the ministry's National Command Center said Monday.
"Investigations have been launched following the establishment of a partnership with the Journalistic Freedoms...
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At least 11 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in a fresh outbreak of violent internecine clashes in the Gaza Strip, the worst in more than a month, security officials said.
The clashes erupted when Hamas police forces raided a neighbourhood in southern Gaza City before dawn, seeking to arrest members of a powerful local clan, the...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to appeal to Tehran to make a constructive response to the current offer from world powers over Iran's controversial nuclear programme in talks Monday with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
Steinmeier's spokesman said ahead of the meeting in Berlin that Mottaki had asked...
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At least five suspected Muslim militants were killed in separate encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir where people participated in protests called by separatist leaders on Friday, officials said.
The Indian army said three militants belonging to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were killed in a gunbattle in the southern district of...
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