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| Mideast Experts Fear Peace Talks Are Too Ambitious New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — As the Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged at the peace summit meeting in Washington this week to try to resolve the core issues that have long divided their people and bloodied the land, a growing number of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Coalition puts pressure on rural independents Sydney Morning Herald Tony Abbott offered Independent MP Andrew Wilkie more money, but Julia Gillard won him over with her responsible health spending and gambling reforms. The Coalition has started to put the heat on the three hold-out rural independents - saying it was ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Atlantic Beach hosts hurricane parties as Earl nears BBC News By Katie Connolly BBC News, North Carolina As Hurricane Earl raged on the seas south-west of North Carolina, the coastal town of Atlantic Beach felt deserted. A few surfers braved the huge crashing waves. Locals say that at this time of year, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| BP Says Limits on Drilling Imperil Oil Spill Payouts New York Times By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JOHN M. BRODER BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lahore blasts toll rises to 37, Shias mourn Indian Express Thousands of Shia Muslims on Thursday took out a procession to mourn the victims of the triple bombings that rocked Lahore on Wednesday, even as the death toll from the brazen attacks rose to 37. Provincial authorities on Thursday announced that the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Karzai slams Nato civilian killings Aljazeera.net The Afghan president says the victims killed by Nato airstrike in north Afghanistan were civilians. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned an air strike by Nato-led forces which he said killed 10 election campaign workers, although US officials ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Seven die in Mozambique food rioting Financial Times By Simon Mundy in Johannesburg The first food riots since the 2007-08 crisis have left seven people dead and at least 280 injured in Maputo, the Mozambican government said on Thursday. The unrest in the country's capital followed the government's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| No troops deployed in Gilgit-Baltistan, says China The Hindu BEIJING: China on Thursday denied the presence of its troops in Gilgit-Baltistan, but voiced support to Islamabad's claims on the disputed region by describing it in a statement as "a northern part of Pakistan." India views the region as an integral ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| When did UN know of Congo gang rapes? CNN International Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the gang-rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo outrageous. Goma, Congo (CNN) -- The United Nations appears to have been aware of rape by rebels in eastern Congo earlier than it originally said it was, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fidel Castro to deliver first public speech since 2006 RIA Novosti Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro will deliver his first public speech since 2006 on Friday, during a meeting with students of the Havana University. The speech, to begin at 15:30 Moscow time [11:30 GMT] would focus on "another war in the Middle ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The soldiers' return Indian Express On June 2, 2006, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda held his maiden press conference at the Nepal prime minister's official residence in Baluatar. That was the day Prachanda came overground, ending his quarter-of- a-century in underground politics — for the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| I am not against Islam, but Islamic extremism The Guardian Other people on Pankaj Mishra's list of influential anti-Islamic witch-hunters (Comment, 1 September) can speak for themselves, but please let me state clearly what I have several times stated before: that I am not against Islam, but against Islamic ... See all stories on this topic » |
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