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| August 27, 2006 | Sunday | Sha'aban 2, 1427 |
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Iraqi leader proposes autonomy for Shia region
BAGHDAD, Aug 26: A powerful Iraqi politician on Saturday called for the Shia south of the country to become an autonomous region as the embattled prime minister called on tribal leaders to work together for peace.... 
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Hezbollah says Israeli response was a surprise
BEIRUT, Aug 26: The magnitude of the Israeli response to Hezbollah’s cross-border operation last month took the Lebanese guerrilla group by surprise, Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem said in an interview published on Saturday....
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‘US may bypass UN on Iran’s N-plan’
WASHINGTON, Aug 26: The Bush administration has indicated it is prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade if the UN Security Council fails to penalise...
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Blast kills six in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Aug 26: A bomb killed six Sri Lankan soldiers and wounded 11 on Saturday as they cleared up after fierce fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels in the besieged northern Jaffna peninsula, a military source said....
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‘Kidnapped journalists in Gaza safe and sound’
GAZA CITY, Aug 26: Two Western journalists held in Gaza were “safe and sound” on Saturday after a deadline set by their captors for Washington to free Muslim prisoners passed, the Palestinian interior ministry said....
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N. Korea considering N-test: Japanese paper
SEOUL, Aug 26: A nuclear test by North Korea cannot be ruled out if the United States steps up what Pyongyang calls its hostile policy towards the communist country, a pro-North Korea newspaper published in Japan said on Saturday....
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Missing zoo python found after 2 months
ANKARA, Aug 26: A six-metre python, which went missing from the Ankara zoo two months ago, triggering a frantic search, has finally been found napping near its cage, Turkish newspapers reported on Saturday....
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Heavy water and why it is important to N-industry
NICOSIA, Aug 26: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a heavy water production plant on Saturday despite a call from the United Nations to suspend its controversial nuclear activities....
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US to forge axis to penalise Iran
UNITED NATIONS: With increasing signs that several fellow Security Council members may stall a United States push to penalize Iran for its nuclear enrichment programme, Bush administration officials have indicated that...
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Islamists threaten to fight UN Darfur force
KHARTOUM: Sudanese Islamist leaders say they will take up arms against United Nations peacekeepers if they deploy to Darfur, and some have warned they will also fight the Khartoum government if it agrees to the force....
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European Union’s ‘mission impossible’ in Lebanon
JACQUES Chirac may have saved the honour of France by pledging 2,000 men for the expanded UN stabilisation force in Lebanon. Now Italy is expected to more than match this figure...
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US-UK attempt to remake the world by force is failing
“HOW goes the empire?” Perhaps Tony Blair will be tempted to repeat King George V’s dying words as he prepares to shuffle off his own political coil....
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China deal against US hegemony: Chávez
BEIJING: China and Venezuela, two of the biggest nations on Washington’s worry list, drew closer together on Saturday with the signing of trade agreements that the Venezuelan president called a “Great Wall” against American hegemonism....
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War of the film festivals
ROME: It’s the lion against the she-wolf. Italy’s film industry is bracing for a war of the festivals between Venice’s venerable “Mostra del Cinema”, whose 63rd edition starts on August 30,...
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