Ties will lead to world peace: Hu
BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao met here German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, and called for closer ties and broader cooperation in various fields. “Developing China-Germany relations based on the principles of mutual ...
Pakistan Minister quits
ISLAMABAD: The divisions in the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Q) over the proposed re-election of President Musharraf from the present electoral college, while he continues to remain army chief came out in the open on Monday with the ...
Six wedding guests killed in road accident
Toronto: A low-key ceremony marked the marriage of an Indo-Canadian couple in British Columbia province as the family mourned the deaths of six wedding guests in a road accident. Six persons were killed and 17 others injured when a ...
INTERNATIONAL Jaffna, a “nightmare” for journalists
COLOMBO: Characterising Jaffna as one of the “most dangerous places on the earth” for journalists, a report of an international fact-finding mission to the town has claimed that in the last one year newspapers in the town have ...
INTERNATIONAL Brown honeymoon losing lustre?
LONDON: The prospects of a snap general election in October receded on Monday after a poll showed that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s “honeymoon” with the voters had started to fade a bit. According to a Guardian/ICM ...
Globescan Foreign hand seen
MOSCOW: Russia’s chief prosecutor accused unidentified exiled Russians of organising the murder of a prominent journalist in order to topple the government of President Vladimir Putin. Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika told a press conference ...
Storms pound Ohio
COLUMBUS: Beleaguered residents of the flood-ravaged Midwest found fresh damage on Sunday from a batch of tornado-bearing thunderstorms that knocked out power to thousands of customers. Storms rolling through the Upper Midwest during the past ...
India & World Rajapaksa condemns blasts
COLOMBO: Condemning the latest Hyderabad blasts, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered assistance in combating terrorism in South Asia . In a message to President Pratibha Patil, the Mr. Rajapaksa said, ...
China, India do not pose threat to each other: Wen
BEIJING: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday said that China and India did not pose a threat to each other, in comments that assume significance in the backdrop of speculation that Beijing is unhappy with the growing India-U.S. strategic ...
Downer allays concerns
SINGAPORE: Australia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Monday disputed the suggestions that its decision to allow the export of uranium to India would only encourage it to produce more nuclear weapons. Mr. Downer was ...
