TOKYO, SEPT 23 (AP): Moderate veteran Yasuo Fukuda easily won election as president of Japan's struggling ruling party Sunday, assuring his selection as the new prime minister in a parliamentary vote later this week.Fukuda won 330 votes to former Foreign...
BAGHDAD, Sept 23 (AP): Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case...
BAGHDAD, SEPT 23 (AP): The commander of US military forces in the Middle East does not believe current tensions with Iran will lead to war and urges for greater emphasis on dialogue and diplomacy. "This constant drum beat of conflict...
WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (AFP): The White House will ask Congress next week to approve another massive spending measure for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan totaling nearly 200 billion dollars, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday....
TORONTO, SEPT 23 (AP): Governments of almost 200 countries have agreed to speed the elimination of a major greenhouse gas that depletes ozone, UN and Canadian officials said, describing a deal they said was a significant step toward fighting global...
MANTECAL, SEPT 23 (AP): Hugo Chavez is driving across the plains of Venezuela, raving about a Hollywood film in which the enslaved hero rises up to challenge the emperor of Rome. "'Gladiator' - What a movie! I saw it three...
US authorities have told Germany they will not hand over 13 suspected CIA agents sought over the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen in 2003, an official said. In response, the German government has dropped its extradition demand, according to...
BAGHDAD, Sept 23 (BBC): Talabani said he was "dismayed" by the arrest by US troops Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called for the immediate release of an Iranian official detained by US forces in the semi-autonomous Kurdish north. Talabani said...
ISLAMABAD, Sept 23 (AFP): Pakistani police detained four key opposition figures Saturday to prevent further protests against President Pervez Musharraf's re-election, police and party officials said. The men support an alliance of pro-democracy parties which has vowed to hold demonstrations...
UNITED NATIONS, SEPT 23 (AP): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki kept a polite distance as they attended a group meeting and avoided discussion of a Baghdad shootout involving guards from a US company...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (AFP): Eighteen countries meet here Sunday to review six years of efforts to spur reconstruction and good governance in Afghanistan at a time when the restive country is beset by a resurgent Taliban insurgency and soaring...
TOKYO, Sept 23 (AFP): Hospitalised Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologised Sunday for creating a political vacuum after he abruptly announced his resignation earlier this month. Abe failed to attend a meeting of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which...
The business community has been demanding for long the construction of another highway linking Dhaka with Chittagong for easier and faster transportation of import and export cargoes to and from the Chittagong port, the lifeline of the country's economy. The...
Shahiduzzaman KhanIn a major policy decision, the council of advisers of the caretaker government (CG) decided recently to open the sky in the country's three international airports for three months for quick journey of foreign-bound passengers, particularly Bangladeshi expatriates, amid...
Shireen Scheik MainuddinMOVEMENTS of an earthquake magnitude in what appears to be the most serious event since the stock market crash of 1987, shook the financial markets of the developed world in mid-August, leaving most large international banks reeling. The...
Jamil Anderlini CHINA is to impose a quota on investments on the Hong Kong stock market -- which will reduce capital outflows to a fraction of the $100bn-plus forecast when its outward investment scheme was announced last month.Liu Mingkang, chairman...
ANYONE visiting public hospitals and the health complexes across the country surely knows it from the first hand experience and would question whether the availability of more doctors in the rural areas is enough to improve the public services. Another...
As usual the visiting dignitary from a western country finding no other issues "advised' the government to open outdoor politics without realizing the significance and effect of any such move. While making the 'advice,' he appears to have totally ignored...
Peter Galbraith FOR eighteen years, Iran had a secret program aimed at acquiring the technology that could make nuclear weapons. A.Q. Khan, the supposedly rogue head of Pakistan's nuclear program, provided centrifuges to enrich uranium and bomb designs. When the...
Anuradha KherAs much as 50 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully exploited and 17 percent are over-exploited, putting marine biodiversity at severe risk, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Worldwatch Institute.The report, called "Oceans in...
Diego Cevallos from Mexico cityCatholic Church leaders in Mexico accused a victim of sexual abuse, who brought charges in a U.S. court against Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera for protecting an alleged pedophile priest, of seeking economic gain.An article published in...
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (AP): Strained by a tight credit market, the nation's economy should stumble along at a slower pace in coming months, but it may find help from lower interest rates and possible employment gains.The conference board said...
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (AFP): HSBC Holdings, the British-based banking giant, announced yesterday it will close its subprime mortgage subsidiary in the United States, saying it was "no longer sustainable." HSBC Holdings's earnings have been heavily hit by its heavy...
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters): Harman International Industries Inc said its private equity buyers are pulling out of their $8 billion buyout deal, a severe blow to the company whose shares fell more than 25 per cent Friday.The audio equipment...
FRANKFURT, Sept 22 (AFP): French President Nicolas Sarkozy's repeated barbs directed at the European Central Bank (ECB) have spurred another Eurozone heavyweight, Germany, to voice renewed backing for ECB independence. And while Spain has advised the bank to stop raising...
KATHMANDU, Sept 22 (XINHUA): Japan has approved utilisation of the counterpart fund of 295 million Nepali rupees (4.5 million US dollars) to Nepal for the implementation of nine ongoing projects, The Himalayan Times reported Saturday. "The counterpart fund was established...
BEIJING, Sept 22 (AFP): China will ensure ample food supply in the coming months to keep prices down, state media said today, in yet another reaction to shock inflation figures released recently. The price of food staples such as wheat,...
BEIJING, Sept 22 (AFP): More than 100 Chinese cities including Beijing staged a "Car Free Day" Saturday to fight congestion and pollution, but the streets of the capital remained defiantly clogged with traffic jams. Beijing's middle class climbed into their...
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (AFP): The dollar stumbled to a record low against the euro yesterday amid market expectations the US Federal Reserve will continue to cut interest rates. The single European currency was at 1.4090 dollars around 2100 GMT,...
BEIJING, Sept 22 (AFP): China is worse hit by computer hackers than any Western nation, a Chinese military expert was quoted as saying today in an apparent response to claims it was the source of attacks on US systems. Unlike...
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