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Top Hurriyat leaders start Pak mission
Muslim separatist leaders from Indian Kashmir were given a rousing welcome when they crossed the heavily militarised ceasefire line here yesterday on an historic visit to the Pakistani zone of the disputed
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Maldives MPs debate multiparty system
4 dissidents detained
The parliament of the Maldives looked set yesterday to allow political parties for the first time in the Indian Ocean archipelago in a move that would end centuries of autocratic rule.
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India's emergence seen unstoppable
It may help balancing China's might
India's emergence as a political and economic power is unstoppable and could play a key neutralising role over China's growing clout, according to experts and officials at a forum here Wednesday.
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Bodo rebels start truce in Assam
A ceasefire between the Indian government and a separatist group in the northeastern state of Assam began Wednesday with the aim of ending nearly two decades of insurgency, an official said.
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Gohar Ayub Says
Kashmiris did not back Pakistan in '65
A large number of some 4,000 Pakistani commandos sent to the Kashmir Valley in 1965 were butchered or caught by Indians after the local population failed to support them, former Pakistan foreign minister
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'The couple at odds'
Growing disharmony clouds Sonia, Manmohan's future ties
Amid celebrations feting the first anniversary of the political union between India's ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and Premier Manmohan Singh, reports of growing disharmony cloud their future.
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Tsunami Aid Deal
Chandrika in India for talks
Sri Lanka's president arrived here yesterday for talks with Indian leaders that are expected to cover Colombo's plans to strike a controversial tsunami aid-sharing deal with Tamil rebels banned in India.
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Ulfa seeks US help to end Assam insurgency
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has sought the intervention of the US - which calls it a terrorist organisation - to bring an end to more than 25 years of insurgency in India's northeastern
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UN suspends mine clearing in Afghanistan
The United Nations suspended mine clearing work in southern and western Afghanistan yesterday after two of its workers were killed in the third bombing targeting the operation in two weeks.
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Dutch voters reject EU constitution
European leaders may have to scrap the proposed EU constitution after Dutch voters rejected it by a massive margin, voicing their concern over dwindling national identity in a rapidly expanding unionand
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Woodward tells how FBI man became 'Deep Throat'
A chance encounter with a senior FBI official in 1970 grew into a friendship and as the Watergate scandal unfolded the official became the "Deep Throat" source for the stories that helped bring down President
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North Korea Says
US Stealth bomber move signals nuke war
North Korea yesterday said the deployment of 15 US F-117 Stealth bombers to South Korea was part of preparations for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the country.
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Amnesty Challenges US
Open Guantanamo Bay to observers
The head of Amnesty International yesterday hit back at US outrage over the group labelling Guantan-amo Bay a "gulag" and challenged Washington to open the military detention centre to outside inspections.
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Press writes up obituary of EU constitution
Beaten up and left for dead, the EU constitution is little more than a wreck that it would be better to bury right away, European newspapers said yesterday after Dutch voters landed it a fresh mortalblow.
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'Little Mermaid' stable after legs separated
A Peruvian baby girl known as the "Little Mermaid" is able to wriggle her two legs after her fused limbs were surgically separated on Wednesday, in what local doctors said was the second such operation
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Beirut blast kills anti-Syrian journalist
Prominent anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir was killed yesterday in a car bomb explosion in a residential sector of mostly Christian east Beirut, an AFP correspondent said.
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400 Palestinian inmates freed by Israel
Israel freed 400 Palestinian prisoners yesterday in a long-delayed gesture it said was meant to bolster moderate President Mahmoud Abbas but which Palestinians said was not enough to advance peacemaking.
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50 killed in Ivory Coast clashes
Men armed with machetes and rifles stormed two western Ivory Coast villages overnight, killing at least 50 people in what security forces and local officials described Wednesday as ethnic clashes.
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Clinton accused of raping a nurse
Former US President Bill Clinton has been accused of raping a nurse, in a shocking new book, called Their Lives - the women targeted by the Clinton machine.
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