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| April 25, 2006 | Tuesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 26, 1427 |
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Tehran threatens to quit NPT: Chances of US attack dismissed
TEHRAN, April 24: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday rejected a UN Security Council demand to halt sensitive nuclear work and warned that his country could quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).... 
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Saudis seek US help to protect oil facilities
DOHA, April 24: The US energy secretary called on Monday for more security at oil facilities around the world, saying Riyadh had asked Washington for help after a botched attack at a plant in the country....
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Iranian women allowed to visit stadiums
TEHRAN, April 24: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Monday that Iranian women can finally go to stadiums to watch sporting events, putting an unexpected end to a quarter-century ban....
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UN Council to consider binding resolution
UNITED NATIONS, April 24: The UN Security Council will consider a draft resolution that would legally require Iran to comply with demands that it freeze all uranium enrichment activities, US Ambassador John Bolton said on Monday....
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Ex-FM slams India’s ‘inactivity’ over Nepal
NEW DELHI, April 24: Former Indian foreign minister Kunwar Natwar Singh on Monday slammed his country’s slothful response to the upheaval in Nepal, saying Delhi’s policy of ‘not so masterly inactivity’ had failed the Nepalese....
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Five killed in Afghan plane crash
KANDAHAR, April 24: Five people were killed and 10 injured when a plane leased to US anti-drugs agents crashed while landing and hit a nomad camp in southern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said....
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Suicide squads
COLOMBO, April 24: The Sri Lankan military has beefed up security in Colombo and other southern areas after receiving intelligence reports that suicide squads have infiltrated the southern region of the country....
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Hamas finds itself at a dead end
GAZA CITY: Hamas, in control of the Palestinian Authority for less than a month, is already in deeper trouble than critics had predicted: diplomatically isolated, profoundly in debt and in a state of increasing internal disarray....
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Shadow of another war looms: Bush’s ‘presidential prerogative’
WASHINGTON: The Hundred Days is indelibly associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Thousand Days with John F. Kennedy. But as of this week, a thousand days remain of President Bush’s...
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Books, not bombs, for Iraq
BAGHDAD: American troops assigned to Camp Anaconda, 42 miles north of Baghdad in the Iraqi desert, call the sprawling encampment Mortaritaville — a place, they wryly say, where every hour is happy hour....
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Bush’s retreat from the freedom agenda
WASHINGTON: President Bush’s retreat from the ambitious goals of his second term will proceed one small but fateful step further this Friday. That’s when, after more than two years of stalling,...
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US, Saudi officials to talk oil next week
WASHINGTON: Surging crude oil prices should make Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Naimi’s upcoming annual trip to Washington more tense than last year’s visit, which featured so much back-slapping that some government officials called it ‘the love-fest’....
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