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Articles 721 through 820 of 27135:
- Rockets Rain On Wana During Governor’S Visit: Aurakzai Not Targeted: Spokesman (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
NWFP Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai escaped unhurt as rockets rained on a heavily fortified security camp during his address to a jirga in Wana, headquarters of the tribal South Waziristan agency, on Tuesday.
- Mockery Of Law, Travesty Of Justice (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 08, 2006)
If, pursuant to what is so obviously a travesty of justice, Saddam is executed, it will be nothing but an outrageous act of judicial murder, and a mockery of rule of law.
- Musharraf Defends Attack On Militants: Democratic Reforms Stressed (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday pledged to continue dealing effectively with terrorists and militants and said that terrorism would be crushed at all costs.
- Bulent Ecevit: Man To Remember (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Nov 08, 2006)
Bulent Ecevit (1925-2006), Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, has aroused the kind of universal Turkish grief at his death which he richly deserved.
- How North Korea Fulfilled Its Nuclear Dream (International Herald Tribune, Donald Greenlees, Nov 08, 2006)
Seoul for two years in the mid- 1980s, Kim Dae Ho produced propaganda on North Korea's efforts to become a nuclear power.
- Chinese President To Visit India From November 20 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
Chinese President Hu Jintao will pay a state visit to India from November 20-23 and hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders on various aspects of Sino-Indian relations, including the vexed border issue.
- Family Loses 4 To Aids (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
The deadly disease of AIDS has swallowed four persons, including two breadwinners of a Dalit family, in this sleepy village in the border district of Taran Taran in the past five years.
- Baghdad Airport Reopens (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
Baghdad airport was reopened on Tuesday two days after it was closed when a round-the-clock curfew was imposed in the Iraqi capital to prevent violence during the announcement of a verdict on Saddam Hussein.
- Bush Faces Daunting Challenges In His Lame-Duck Years (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
With the contentious elections of 2006 behind him, President Bush must now determine how best to spend his remaining political capital in the final two years of a lame-duck presidency.
- Support Systems (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 08, 2006)
From being infra dig, infrastructure has now become a buzzword and everyone talks about infrastructure. Infrastructure means all the various components that support any system and need not be economic infrastructure alone.
- Difficult Choice (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 08, 2006)
It is possible to endlessly debate on what real democracy is all about. But there can be no dispute that a monarchy should have no place in a democracy.
- A Hero In Death (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Nov 08, 2006)
Occasionally, like any doomed man, Saddam Hussein played with the notion of a last-minute reprieve.
- Saddam Returns To A 2nd Trial (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
Saddam Hussein returned to court Tuesday, to the dock where he erupted in fury and frustration against the death sentence imposed on him 48 hours earlier. But this time, it was a different Saddam who showed up, a courteous arguer of legal points who . . .
- Nepal's Maoists Agree Peace Deal (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
The Nepalese government and Maoist rebels have agreed a peace deal aimed at ending the 10-year insurgency.
- Sc Rejects Reliance Airport’S Plea On Revamp, Slams It For Letters During Bids (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
In a strong rebuff to the Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Airport Developers Pvt Ltd, the Supreme Court today upheld a Delhi High Court order endorsing award of contracts for modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports to consortiums led by GMR Infrastructur
- Lebanese Leaders Seek To Break Impasse (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
Lebanon's rival political parties on Tuesday worked to develop a formula to break a political impasse that threatens to throw the country into another bout of violence, Lebanon's parliament speaker said.
- Progress Thru Cooperation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 08, 2006)
Thirty-seven years after its founding, the Organization of the Islamic Conference does not have much to show for.
- Nicaragua: Back To The Future? (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Nov 08, 2006)
A Prominently moustachioed figure from the past has been haunting United States officials of late. No, I don’t mean Saddam Hussein, who was sentenced to death last Sunday in what is predictably (and unconvincingly) being hailed in certain quarters . . .
- Miyauchi The Key Schemer, Horie Testifies (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2006)
Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie denied in court Tuesday that he had control over accounting at Livedoor Co., saying he had no knowledge of day-to-day transactions that allegedly violated securities laws.
- Suicide & Mental Health (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Nov 08, 2006)
THE Pakistan Association for Mental Health will be looking into various aspects of the problem of suicide when it observes mental health day belatedly on Sunday.
- The Hidden Valley (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 07, 2006)
Once out of Gangtok, the mountainscapes are wild and beautiful... look out for valleys that take your breath away.
- Nightmare Figures (Hindu, Mike Marqusee, Nov 07, 2006)
A recent study by the Johns Hopkins University has put the death toll in Iraq since the coalition invasion at 6,55,000, ten times the figure cited by Western media.
- India’S Congress Party Satisfied With Saddam Verdict (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Nov 07, 2006)
India’s Congress party on Monday ‘noted with satisfaction’ that there is an automatic appeal provision in deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s death sentence and that as such the verdict is still not final, said Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
- Injuries Revive Bid To Ban Cluster Bombs (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Hassan Hammade was picking oranges near his home when a strange object fell from a tree in front of him. The 13-year-old picked it up.
- Bush And Rove, Still Strategizing (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
President Bush and his political partner, Karl Rove, ended it where they started it: in this sliver of Northwest Florida that arguably gave them their 2000 victory.
- Japan Talk Of Nukes 'Not Desirable': Ban (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Ban Ki Moon, South Korea's foreign minister and the next U.N. secretary general, voiced concern Monday over discussions in Japan about the possibility of developing nuclear weapons in response to the recent nuclear test by North Korea.
- Bourses Under Terror Threat (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Lahore Stock Exchange MD says intelligence agencies have not informed about potential terrorist attack so far
- Indian Troops Kill 2 Militants, Arrest Four (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Indian troops killed two suspected militants in Kashmir and arrested four others as they sought to cross into Azad Kashmir, said police on Monday.
- Israeli Minister Calls For Arab-Free Israel (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Less than a week after being appointed to the Israeli cabinet, ultra-nationalist Avigdor Lieberman called for Israel to become "as much as possible" an all-Jewish country without an Arab minority.
- A Flawed Verdict (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 07, 2006)
After a trial that most international observers called seriously flawed, Mr Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by hanging.
- These Discriminatory Laws (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 07, 2006)
Waf's silver jubilee celebration in Lahore last weekend focused attention on two paradoxical aspects of the status of women in Pakistan.
- North Korea Talks (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 07, 2006)
North korea's decision to return to the “six party” negotiations on its nuclear programme is, first and foremost, a victory for China and its strategy of preserving Kim Jong Il’s totalitarian regime.
- Orders Will Be Implemented: Gom (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Nov 07, 2006)
After Monday's strictures, Union Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy said the Group of Ministers (GoM) decided to implement the Supreme Court orders on sealing the premises of the traders who filed affidavits to end misuse of their residential . .
- Blasts: Ulfa Hand Suspected (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Guwahati death toll goes up to 14
Home Ministry reviews situation
Government for peaceful negotiations.
- Secular Architecture Of Gingee (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
A trendsetter in the study of forts and fortified towns tracing the development of this historical urban centre.
- Panel To Probe Sri Lanka Abuses (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Nov 07, 2006)
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapksa on Monday appointed a Commission of Inquiry to probe and report to him the alleged violations of human rights since August 1, 2005.
- Trial Was Brought To The Verge Of Anarchy (Hindu, Michael Howard, Nov 07, 2006)
The fairness of Saddam Hussein's trial was a vital concern in a country trying to bring reconciliation between its Sunni minority and the Shia majority.
- To The Victor Belongs The Judge's Gavel (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Nov 07, 2006)
The show trial of Saddam Hussein was not just a violation of international legal norms by a court operating under the reality of foreign occupation but also an insult to the victims in whose name this political farce was enacted.
- Japan, U.S. Vow To Keep Pressing North Over Nukes (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Japan and the United States agreed Monday to keep pressuring North Korea to end its nuclear weapons drive, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said after meeting with Nicholas Burns, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs.
- The Hidden Valley (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 07, 2006)
Once out of Gangtok, the mountainscapes are wild and beautiful... look out for valleys that take your breath away.
- Al Qaeda Terrorist Captured In Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Troops in eastern Afghanistan captured a “known Al Qaeda terrorist” who has ties to the network’s leadership, and five other extremists, including Saudis and Pakistanis, on Monday, said the US-led coalition.
- Designing For A Near-Silent Flight (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
MIT-Cambridge team releases design of new aircraft.
- Friendship With Caution (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Nov 07, 2006)
President Hu's visit comes exactly 50 years after Zhou Enlai's grand reception in Delhi; nothing much has changed since then
- Verdict May Be Beneficial In The Long Run: Hungary (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Nov 07, 2006)
Iraq situation "very difficult" with high levels of tension.
- The Irrelevance Of Politics (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, Nov 07, 2006)
Financial market reaction to the increase in tensions on the Korean Peninsula over the past month has been rather telling.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 07, 2006)
It would be a gross understatement to call them crib deaths. Nothing short of infant mortality has struck Kolkata with as many as 23 newborns dying in 48 hours at the BC Roy Memorial Hospital.
- Breakthrough In Nepal (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Nov 07, 2006)
Nepal’s deputy prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli met external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee just hours before the leaders of the Maoists and the Seven Party Alliance in Nepal sat down to hammer through a deal after months of negotiations and near . . .
- India And France: Joining Forces (Pioneer, Seema Sarin, Nov 07, 2006)
With growing French interest in India, it's time Delhi considered taking bilateral defence cooperation to the next level, says Seema Sarin.
- The World Is Witness (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 07, 2006)
Saddam Hussein’s trial and death sentence witnesses the intersection of two parallel lines. One flows from contemporary international law that places a premium on national sovereignty.
- Jobless Youth (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 07, 2006)
That the majority of the Indian population is young is not so cheering when confronted with the fact that a majority of them are unemployed.
- American Soldiers Die (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
The U.S. military on Monday announced the deaths of five American troops, two in a helicopter crash north of Baghdad and three in fighting west of Baghdad.
- Judgement Day (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 07, 2006)
In pronouncing Mr Saddam Hussein guilty of slaughtering political opponents in a specific case in 1982 and sentencing him to death, the Baghdad-based tribunal trying the former Iraqi President has triggered an explosion of imponderables.
- Noose On Iraq (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 07, 2006)
The verdict of death sentence delivered upon Saddam Hussein needs to be separated from the rights and wrongs of the American invasion of Iraq.
- Hypocritical Justice (Tribune, Robert Fisk, Nov 07, 2006)
So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world.
- Protect Bihari Workers In Assam: Lalu (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
The RJD supremo and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav today condemned the blasts that rocked Guwahati claiming lives of 12 Bihari labourers .
- Centre’S ‘Mild’ Reaction On Saddam Verdict Irks Left (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Left parties today criticised the Manmohan Singh government for its “mild reaction” to the death sentence to the ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussain and asked it to work actively to intervene to get this sentence rescinded.
- Ulfa Bomber Shot Dead (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
A separatist bomber suspected to be involved in the twin explosions that killed 14 persons in Assam's main city was shot dead by police as the Unified Command decided to step up operations against the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).
- India Biggest Arms Buyer Outside West (Times of India, RAJAT PANDIT, Nov 07, 2006)
For the second year in succession, the lumbering elephant has outrun the swifter dragon. Not in economic growth or FDI, but in purchasing military hardware and software.
- Baghdad Blah (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Nov 07, 2006)
Making forthright and possibly accurate remarks about another country's affairs can still amount to a diplomatic gaffe.
- Geneva Talks: What Next? (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Nov 07, 2006)
The Sri Lankan Government wants the talks to resume in the third week of November but the LTTE is insisting that the A9 highway, linking the Jaffna peninsula with Colombo, should be re-opened before a date can be fixed for the next round.
- Saddam: More Queries Than Answers (Indian Express, P.R. KUMARASWAMY, Nov 07, 2006)
The much-awaited death sentence handed to the former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, creates more complications than it solves.
- Trauma In The Ranks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 07, 2006)
The Westphalian system created the modern nation state as well as the concept of national armies, thereby providing an institutional model for the control of violence.
- Iraq Begins To Lift Curfew, Drafts Law To Reinstate Saddam Backers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Iraq began on Monday to lift a curfew imposed in Baghdad to quell any insurgent backlash against the death sentence passed on Saddam Hussein, even as the US military announced on Monday the deaths of five more American soldiers.
- A Quagmire Called Iraq (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Nov 07, 2006)
Will the death sentence handed out to Saddam Hussein by an American-choreographed court change anything in Iraq or the region? Is the coup Americans said they were undertaking in Iraq to spread democracy in West Asia a step closer to realisation?
- Saddam Appeal Process Begins (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2006)
Judges put Saddam Hussein’s appeal process into motion on Monday as Baghdad found itself once more under round-the-clock curfew after the ousted president’s death sentence stirred Iraq’s sectarian tensions.
- Dangerous Nuclear Signs (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Nov 06, 2006)
According to reports, at least six Arab countries are developing domestic nuclear power programmes to diversify their energy sources.
- Afghans Will Defeat Us, Says Former Isi Chief (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2006)
The United States will meet the same fate as did the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan and it has become clear that the Afghans are determined to drive out foreign occupation forces from their country, former chief of the Inter-Services . . .
- Triumph Over Your Base Instincts (The Economic Times, K VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Nov 06, 2006)
From the earliest days when the first man was tempted by Satan, worldly allurements have drawn many away from not merely what is just but also from what is good for themselves.
- Iran Test-Fires More Weapons In War Games (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2006)
Iran on Saturday announced it had successfully test-fired new anti-armour weaponry and an anti-helicopter missile system on the third day of its latest war games.
- Symbolic Exercise (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 06, 2006)
The latest initiative in military diplomacy between India and China last week in the form of a border personnel meeting at Bum la was an exercise in symbolism, considering that the Chinese army overran the place in 1962.
- Magnet For Jehadis (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 06, 2006)
The situation in Afghanistan is fast approximating that in Iraq. The number of suicide attacks and bomb blasts is spiralling.
- Saddam Death Verdict Divides Iraq, Arabs (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2006)
An Iraqi court expectedly sentenced a shaken but defiant Saddam Hussein to death by hanging on Sunday for crimes against humanity, driving a wedge between the strife-torn country’s embattled Shias and Sunnis and dividing the Arab world right down . . . .
- Political Reforms, A Must (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 06, 2006)
There has never been a time in India without demand for reforms of every kind — economic, electoral, administrative, police, judicial, educational, labour. Even the Constitution has been subjected to review by a national commission.
- Trigger-Happy Troops Turn Gun On Themselves (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2006)
Prolonged engagement in combat situations may be taking its toll on Indian Armymen stationed in Manipur.
- Palestinians Near Unity Govt (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2006)
Palestinians said they were close to agreement on a unity government aimed at ending a crippling Western aid boycott, while Israel pressed ahead with its bloody offensive in northern Gaza.
- Madrasa Massacre (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 06, 2006)
It is unlikely that Pakistan will accept the demand from Human Rights Watch for an independent probe into the strike at a religious school in the Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan, nor will the resultant protests actually threaten the . . .
- In Pak, Hu To Sign New Nuke Deal (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Nov 06, 2006)
Nucl-ear energy for Pakistan and better relations with India through a series of bilateral agreements will be in Chinese President Hu Jintao’s travelling bag when he visits both New Delhi and Islamabad later this month.
- Extending The Northern Frontier (Pioneer, KN Pandita, Nov 06, 2006)
Presidential elections in the Central Asian Republic of Tajikistan are scheduled for the next week.
- Stress Kills (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 06, 2006)
Frequent reports of Indian security forces personnel shooting down either their comrade or superior officer or themselves are deeply distressing.
- Crimes Against Journalists (Daily Times, Anwer Mooraj, Nov 06, 2006)
IT started innocently enough with a remark uttered in all seriousness by a guest at a recent dinner party.
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