Kurdish party office closed
IRBIL: Iraqi authorities on Saturday closed an office of the Kurdistan Democratic Solution party, an organisation that allegedly had close ties to PKK guerrillas. Turkey has sought the party’s closure, accusing it of ...
Part of Sri Lankan contingent in Haiti to be sent back
COLOMBO: Embarrassed over revelations of alleged misconduct and sexual abuse by some of its forces that were part of the Sri Lanka peacekeeping contingent in Haiti, the government on Saturday said that in close consultation with the U.N., it ...
Pakistan is sinking, says Nawaz Sharif
DUBAI: The former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, left Dubai for Karachi by a commercial flight a few hours after President Musharraf declared a state of Emergency on Saturday. Speaking on behalf of Ms. Bhutto, who had returned ...
Al-Qaeda threatens wave of attacks against Libya
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, on Saturday harshly criticised Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, in a new audio tape, accusing him of being an enemy of Islam and threatening a wave of attacks against that country because it ...
Astronauts fix solar panel
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida : Astronauts successfully unfurled a torn solar power wing at the international space station on Saturday after spacewalker Scott Parazynski cut loose a tangled clump of wires and patched everything up. His ...
Work to disable n-sites
TOKYO: Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said here on Saturday that the team of U.S. experts will start the process to disable the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s Yongbyon nuclear facilities ...
Subpoena for Rice
WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some of President George W. Bush’s top foreign policy advisers must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a Federal judge ruled in a ...
Karuna in immigration detention centre
LONDON: The rebel LTTE leader, Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, better known as “Colonel Karuna Amman,” who was arrested here on Friday for allegedly travelling on a false passport, is being held in an immigration detention ...
