Archive for January, 2009
Sri Lanka truce ruled out as civilian casualties rise
SRI Lanka has ruled out a cease-fire with the Tamil Tigers, despite reports of increasing casualties among the 250,000 civilians trapped in the northern war zone. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president, yesterday urged rebels to let civilians leave the …
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India’s Time of Reckoning
The wind has changed in India’s capital, though not in a way that might disperse the ever more noxious smog produced by the thousands of new cars that hit the streets each week. Since the November terrorist attack on Mumbai, India’s richest and …
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McIlroy holds firm in Desert Classic
Irish teenage prodigy Rory McIlroy was in pole position to chalk up his maiden win as a pro in the fog-hit Dubai Desert Classic after a double eagle blast. The 19-year-old Ulsterman was one of 51 golfers unable to complete their third rounds as …
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Erdogan tells it like it is, Peres gets his comeuppance
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan amazed everyone on Thursday when he told Israeli President Shimon Peres ‘You kill people’ after sparring with him over Israel’s war on Gaza during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in …
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Protesters give Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva two weeks to …
Thai media said 30,000 supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) were at Government House, which was occupied for three months last year by the royalist People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), a rival protest group. UDD …
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Mitchell on last leg of peace tour
The US special envoy to the Middle East arrives in Saudi Arabia on the final leg of a regional tour aimed at reviving the frozen Mideast peace process. Late on Saturday after visiting Jordan, George Mitchell flew in to the Saudi capital Riyadh to …
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Bin Laden wins Saudi railway contract
Saudi’s Bin laden Group partnering with the French defense group Thales has won a multi-million-dollar contract for Saudi’s ambitious north-south railway. The two firms were selected by the kingdom to build the signaling and security systems for the …
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Russia arrests dozens at anti-Putin protests
Moscow, Feb 01: Russian security forces on Saturday arrested dozens of activists as the authorities forcefully broke up protests against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s handling of the economic crisis. Eduard Limonov, head of the banned National …
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Anti-government rallies staged in Russia
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Moscow and Russia’s far east to protest against the Kremlin’s fiscal policies in the midst of the worsening economic climate. Demonstrators in Vladivostock in particular complained about higher import …
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Pakistani PM says US strikes inflame tensions
Pakistan’s prime minister warned President Barack Obama on Friday that U.S. attacks on Islamic militants in Pakistani territory are inflaming tensions and undermining efforts to quell the insurgency in Afghanistan. Under the Bush administration, U.S …
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