SHILLONG (AFP) -
When
politician Adolf Lu Hitler-Marak stands for election in an
Indian hill state next month, even he may have a tough time
standing out in a field of the most unusually named candidates.
BEIJING: The death toll from severe snow storms that have paralysed large parts of China this winter has reached 129, state media reported Sunday.
LOS ANGELES: Authorities have arrested a Japanese man wanted in the 1981 murder of his wife in Los Angeles, a decade after he was acquitted of the crime by a Japanese high court, US police said Saturday.
LONDON (AFP) -
Tate and
Lyle, the biggest sugar cane refiner in Europe, announced
Saturday that it would switch to Fairtrade sugar supplies in
Britain to guarantee producers in poor countries a fair price.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) -
Pakistan's
new government will likely name its prime minister in early
March, party officials said Saturday, as supporters of key
US ally President Pervez Musharraf vowed not to obstruct the coalition.
KUALA TERENGGANU, Malaysia : Malaysian activists have accused electoral authorities of dirty tricks ahead of March 8 polls and are threatening to hold a mass rally in Kuala Lumpur in protest.
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
White House
hopeful Hillary Clinton launched a scathing attack on
Democratic rival Barack Obama Saturday in a bid to restore
her front-runner status ahead of key nominating contests
next month.
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) -
Presidents
Cristina Kirchner, of Argentina, and Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, of Brazil, on Friday agreed to set up a joint uranium
enrichment company to build a power-generating nuclear
reactor to serve both countries.
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
The United
States revealed frustration Friday at Russia's "cynical
policy" toward Kosovo but kept its annoyance in check as
it sought Moscow's support for new sanctions against Iran.
CIZRE (AFP) -
The Iraqi
government pushed Ankara on Sunday to withdraw its troops
from northern Iraq, after the Turkish army warned Iraqi
Kurds not to shelter Kurdish rebels fleeing its offensive in
the region.
TOKYO (AFP) -
Japanese
professor Yoji Kimura believes laughter is a weapon that in
healthy doses can end the world's wars. The only problem is
finding a way to measure it.
KUFA (AFP) -
Firebrand
Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia
to prolong its ceasefire for six months on Friday, to the
evident relief of the United States.
PRISTINA (AFP) -
Serb
protesters clashed with UN police in a divided Kosovo town
on Friday as the United States, European Union and United
Nations condemned attacks by rioters on Western embassies in Belgrade.
TOKYO: Japan and the US military will tighten rules for troops who live off bases after a series of incidents by American serviceman including an alleged rape of a teenager, the foreign minister said on Friday.
SEOUL : North Korean state media Friday carried its first reports on the upcoming visit by the New York Philharmonic, just four days before the orchestra is set to give a historic performance in Pyongyang.
KUALA LUMPUR : A Malaysian government minister has accused bloggers, who have been writing avidly on upcoming elections, of being cowards and warned they are being monitored, a report said Friday.
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan's two biggest opposition parties agreed to try to form a coalition government that could drive President Pervez Musharraf from power, but it was unclear Friday who would be prime minister.
MONACO (AFP) -
Four
nations and a clutch of cities and corporations unveiled a
Web-based information hub on Thursday to help meet a pledge
to radically cut carbon levels in their economies in coming decades.
BEIJING: A man has died of bird flu in southern China, the second death in the country from the deadly disease in a month, state media reported Thursday.
MONROVIA (AFP) -
The White
House acknowledged Thursday that "mistakes were
made" in not notifying Britain about two so-called
"extraordinary rendition" US flights that refuelled
on British soil.
HONOLULU (AFP) -
A US
missile shot down a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying
dangerous toxic fuel, defense officials said, as China
raised suspicions about the operation.
NEW YORK (AFP) -
New York
oil prices struck a record 101.27 dollars a barrel Wednesday
amid renewed global supply jitters, analysts said.
ISLAMABAD : The husband of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto alleged on Wednesday that Pakistani authorities are withholding the results of parliamentary elections and are attempting to change them.
LONDON (AFP) -
World share
prices tumbled on Wednesday on renewed worries about a
global economic slowdown as the price of crude oil surged to
a record high point above 100 dollars a barrel, dealers said.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) -
Former
Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif told hundreds of
protesters outside the deposed chief justice's house
Thursday that President Pervez Musharraf's rule was
"illegal and unconstitutional".
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: A strong 7.5-magnitude quake rocked Indonesia's Aceh province Wednesday, killing three people, seriously injuring 25 others and briefly sparking a tsunami alert, officials said.
BANGKOK: Thailand has banned smoking in all bars and nightclubs and even popular open air eateries and markets must have dedicated smoking sections.
PRISTINA (AFP) -
Serbia's
foreign minister was to press his country's claim to Kosovo
with European lawmakers on Wednesday, one day after NATO
peacekeepers intervened to defend two border posts from
angry Serbs.
HAVANA (AFP) -
Cuban
leader Fidel Castro said Tuesday he would give up power for
good, but the island was left in suspense over who will take
the helm amid hopes his successor will break with the
authoritarian past.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) -
Pakistani
opposition parties mulled the formation of a coalition
government Wednesday, after storming to victory in elections
and leaving President Pervez Musharraf's position in jeopardy.
MANILA: At least 10 people have been confirmed dead and six are missing after flash floods hit central Philippine islands, disaster relief agencies said on Wednesday.
BEIJING: All competition managers at the Beijing Olympics will come from the host country, a first since the 1996 Atlanta Games.
BANGKOK: British aid agency Oxfam on Tuesday urged Thailand's new government not to scrap a controversial generic drugs programme, which provides cheaper, copycat medicines to the poor.
KATHMANDU : Nepal's sidelined monarch issued a rare statement Tuesday, calling for peace as the ethnically-tense south of the country entered the seventh day of a violent general strike.
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines : An Islamic militant wanted in connection with the deadly 2002 Bali bombings and with links to Al-Qaeda is believed to have been killed in the Philippines, the military said Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD : Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's allies on Tuesday faced a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections that placed the key US ally's political survival in doubt, according to early unofficial results.
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan : A Taliban suicide car bomb aimed at Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan killed 37 civilians on Monday, a day after another suicide blast left 100 dead in the country's deadliest such attack.
JAKARTA: A three-year-old boy from the Indonesian capital Jakarta who died last week had bird flu, the health ministry said Monday, bringing the toll to 105 in the nation worst hit by the disease.
VILLIERS-LE-BEL (AFP) -
French
police arrested at least 33 people in a major pre-dawn
operation Monday north of Paris, targeting the suspected
ringleaders of riots last year.
KATHMANDU : One person was killed and at least 59 were injured on Sunday in violent ethnic protests in southern Nepal, police said.
PARIS (AFP) -
The
Mississippi Delta is sinking fast, posing a challenge for
the rebuilding of coastal Louisiana after the devastation
wrought in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, a study released
Sunday confirmed.
NICOSIA, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) - The Cyprus presidential election, seen as crucial to the future of efforts to reunite the divided island, was too close to call after the first round of polling Sunday, early results showed.
PRISTINA, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) - Kosovo on Sunday declared its independence from an angry and anxious Serbia in the final fallout from the conflict-strewn breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
DAR ES SALAAM (AFP) - US President George W. Bush and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete on Sunday signed a five-year, 698-million-dollar US aid package for the east African country.
