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As has been the habit of successive US Presidents about ushering in and protecting democracy around the world, Mr George Walker Bush has said that he would be ‘firm’ with the Russian President, Mr Vladimir Putin, regarding...
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Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s trial has been adjourned by two weeks as his lawyers boycotted it in protest against the killing of one of his chief lawyers, Khamis-al-Obeidi last month. The defense lawyers are demanding better security...
The Chinese-Russian draft UN resolution on North Korea’s missile tests last week has met with lukewarm response from Japan and the US. Though this draft is much softer than Japan’s the UN Security Council is still waiting for the result of...
Former US soldier Private Steven D Green’s attorneys have filed a motion in the Louisville, Kentucky federal court calling for a gag order in the case involving Green and four serving soldiers of raping, murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and then...
British lawmakers are to hold an emergency debate on its extradition laws vis-a-vis the United States as three bankers are being sent to the latter to face trial there over an alleged fraud. The bankers have lost all court battles to face trial in their...
China has flayed the Japan-sponsored resolution on North Korea calling for sanctions for its missile tests as an over-reaction, which would not only split the Security Council but would also aggravate contradictions and increase tension. Even South...
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Afghanistan on an unscheduled visit following an increase in Taliban violence in the southern parts of the country. The trip comes amid reports that the NATO is readying to take over all military...
Five US soldiers have been charged in a rape and multiple murder case committed in March in Iraq for which they could face the death penalty. The rape victim, Abeer Qasim Hamza al- Janabi, was just 14 years old and not 20 as US officials maintained....
An Airbus A-310, carrying about 200 people including eight crew members, crashed on landing in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday. Most on board were feared killed.
The plane, operated by Russia’s second largest airline, Sibir, was on a...
At least 20 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed in the bloodiest fighting ever since an Israeli soldier, Captain Gilad Shalit, was captured by militants in a daring cross-border attack on an Israeli military outpost. That the Palestinian...
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