 |
|
| Sections | |
|
|
|
|
International
|
|
Hamas, Fatah strike new ceasefire deal
Israel won't let up in its strikes against militants
Negotiators from the rival Hamas and Fatah movements reached a new ceasefire deal yesterday, a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said.
|
 |
Militancy rising: Musharraf
8 govt officials, 4 police officers kidnapped
President Gen Pervez Musharraf acknowledged that Islamic militancy was increasing across Pakistan and said tough measures were needed to counter it, as pro-Taliban militants had kidnapped eight government
|
|
|
Indian cops seek clues to mosque blast
Police sought clues on Saturday to a "sophisticated" blast at a historic mosque that killed 11 people and triggered clashes, which left five dead in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
|
 |
Blair's farewell tour makes stop in Iraq
Outgoing British leader Tony Blair, whose premiership has been dominated by his unpopular decision to join the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, arrived in Iraq yesterday for his seventh and final
|
|
|
Lawmakers aim to revise immigration deal
The fragile coalition that produced this week's immigration deal risks being picked apart by forces across the political spectrum as the measure begins moving through Congress.
|
 |
Shipwreck yields $500m coin haul
Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have hauled up what could be the richest sunken treasure ever discovered: hundreds of thousands of colonial-era silver and gold coins worth an estimated $500 million
|
|
|
Gunmen kidnap 3 Indians in Nigeria
Gunmen dynamited the front gate of a residential compound in southern Nigeria yesterday and kidnapped three Indians in an attack that left one Nigerian dead, the military said.
|
|
|
5 family members massacred in Lanka
Five family members, including two boys aged four and eight, were hacked to death yesterday in a town just outside the Sri Lankan capital in what police said may have been a family feud.
|
|
|
UN Session on Indigenous Issues
Govts urged to ensure rights to land
The Asian Indigenous Peoples' Caucus has urged the governments to recognise and strengthen the traditional and customary laws of ethnic communities in order to protect their rights to land.
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
© thedailystar.net, 2007.
All Rights Reserved. |
|
|
