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Sunday, 4 May 2008
AN ECCENTRIC ex-journalist from the opposition Conservatives ousted the Labour mayor of London yesterday, capping an election rout for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown who faces an uphill battle to revive his government's fortunes.Gaffe-prone...
NIGERIA has dropped treason charges against one of two accused rebel leaders in the country's main oil producing region, but a bid to have an open trial for the remaining suspect was rejected, their lawyer said."The trial judge rejected our...
THE PARENTS of British girl Madeleine McCann will remain formal suspects over her disappearance, Portugal's police chief said as ceremonies were held yesterday to mark the first anniversary since she went missing."The judicial police are...
A LIBYAN charity chaired by leader Muammar Gaddafi's son has said ties between Libya and Italy will suffer "catastrophic repercussions" if a lawmaker known for his anti-Islamic rhetoric becomes an Italian minister.The remarks caused a...
WORLD powers have proposed Iran cease uranium enrichment during international talks with Tehran on its nuclear programme, Interfax news agency quoted Russia's foreign minister as saying yesterday.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking after his...
THE TINY Pacific island of Guam weighed in yesterday on the epic political battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton while the Democratic rivals chased voters for the next key primaries in the United States.A heavy turnout was reported in the...
ROBERT VESCO, the fugitive financier who left a trail of alleged bribery, embezzlement and drug trafficking that reached to the White House, died in Cuba late last year, The New York Times reported yesterday.Vesco, who fled to Costa Rica in 1971 to...
SOME 1,500 people were evacuated late last Friday as the Chaiten volcano in southern Chile erupted, hurling hot rocks and belching clouds of ash into the sky.The thick clouds of ash that covered the region also spread to towns in the southern...
HUNDREDS of Palestinian security forces deployed in the West Bank town of Jenin on Saturday in the latest extension of a territory-wide crackdown, a senior security official said.General Thiyab al-Ali, commander of Palestinian security forces in the...
THE TURKISH army killed more than 150 Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq in air strikes carried out last Thursday and Friday, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement on its website yesterday. It said it destroyed all the targeted PKK posts in...
ZIMBABWE'S opposition yesterday reiterated claims of an outright election victory against President Robert Mugabe — saying a run-off was "unnecessary" as tensions in the country mounted."We are convinced that the run-off is...
Saturday, 3 May 2008
Would-be Hitler assassin deadBERLIN: A former German army officer involved in two failed plots to assassinate Hitler but who remained undetected until the end of World War II has died aged 90, his family said yesterday. Philipp von Boeselager was...
A VOLCANO in southern Chile spewed ash before dawn yesterday, triggering tremors 20km away and prompting evacuations, officials said.Residents of Chaiten, 1,220km south of the capital of Santiago, said ash from Michimahuida volcano rained over the...
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted yesterday that his party had suffered a "bad" blow in local elections as forecasts predicted the worst results for Labour since the 1960s.Labour — with Brown leading them into elections...
ZIMBABWE opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was finally declared the winner yesterday of the March 29 presidential election but fell just short of toppling incumbent Robert Mugabe in the first round.Nearly five weeks after polling day, the...
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair and tween idol Miley Cyrus have joined Time magazine's "100 most influential people" list alongside other world leaders, celebrities and sports stars.US television talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey...
CROWDS of Shi'ite Muslims launched a tirade against Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City and urged him to end a stalemate with their leader Moqtada al-Sadr."The government must remember that power is...
ISRAEL'S fraud squad yesterday questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has been dogged by corruption scandals that surfaced after he took office in 2006, police said.The investigators, led by the head of the National Fraud Squad Lieutenant...
SOUTH SUDAN'S defence minister was killed yesterday in a plane crash along with 23 other people, most of them army officers, the south's vice president Riek Machar said.The minister's plane crashed some 375km from the southern capital Juba, Machar...
MAJOR powers have agreed to make a new offer of incentives to Iran to halt its sensitive nuclear work, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said yesterday. "I am glad to say that we have got agreement on an offer that will be made to the...
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