Friday, May 9, 2008
World News
U.S. supports embattled Lebanese government
The U.S. government on Friday
restated its support for the government of Lebanese Prime
Minister Fouad Siniora after its forces were routed by...
US aircraft approved for Myanmar aid mission-US
Authorities in Myanmar have
given approval for a U.S. military aircraft carrying relief
supplies to land in the country on Monday, the White...
One dead, 280 quarantined on Canadian train
One person died and about
280 were placed in quarantine aboard a cross-Canada train on
Friday after a mystery illness caused violent...
Indonesia rejects Bali bomber's jail wedding plea
Indonesian authorities have rejected a request by one of three men on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings to remarry his ex-wife in his prison...
Suspected al Qaeda leader in Iraq arrested
Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping...
Israel's Olmert admits taking cash but won't quit
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert has admitted taking cash from a U.S. businessman
but resisted calls to resign over a police investigation...
Myanmar turns back Qatari cyclone rescue team
Myanmar's junta turned back a
disaster rescue team that arrived in Yangon from Qatar because
the flight only had permission to deliver aid...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Stories from The Times
EU Parliament offers platform to Dalai Lama
The head of the European Parliament invited the Dalai Lama yesterday to address the EU legislature on events in Tibet and questioned whether...
Pope's baptism of Muslim not a hostile act - Vatican
Pope Benedict's baptism of an Italian Muslim over Easter weekend was not a hostile act against Islam, the Vatican's newspaper wrote after the...
World Council of Churches backs dialogue with Islam
The World Council of Churches,which groups the main non-Catholic Christian churches, urged its members yesterday to open a dialogue with Muslim...
Detained Muslims tortured by Thai army
The mysterious death of an imam in Thai army custody last week has highlighted the plight of Muslim rebel suspects who say they have been tortured...
Belarus courts sentence demonstrators
Courts in Belarus yesterday sentenced dozens of protesters detained in an illegal protest against President Alexander Lukashenko who is accused in...
Many killed by US strike in Iraq's Hilla
Many people were killed or wounded by a US air strike called to support Iraqi forces in the town of Hilla south of Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi...
Italy seals off 83 farms over mozzarella scare
Italy has sealed off 83 dairy farms after finding nearly one in five buffalo mozzarella producers were making cheese with above permitted levels...
EU seeks answers on safety of Italian mozzarella
The European Commission has asked Italy for assurances the country's top mozzarella is safe to eat following reports some of the cheese was made...
Seoul says time, patience running out on N. Korea
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said yesterday major powers were losing patience with North Korea's failure to produce a full...
Sarkozy, Brown pledge new era of cooperation
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed to boost cooperation on the economy and immigration yesterday as Mr...
Fight against crime
Miami police could soon be the first in the US to use cutting-edge, spy-in-the-sky technology to beef up their fight against crime.
A small...
Crew rewarded for foiling attackers
China Southern Airlines has given a $56,700 cash reward to staff for foiling a "terrorist" attack on a domestic flight earlier this...
World briefs
Police rescued two teenage Bulgarian sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating piranhas for the...
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