guns fired Thursday on a city at the heart of the country's uprising, killing at least four people one day after Damascus agreed to an Arab League plan calling on the government to pull the military out of cities, activists said.
The violence does (...)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad showed rare defiance of his strongest backer, Iran's supreme leader, by insisting on his choice for vice president despite vehement opposition from hard-liners that has opened a deep rift in the conservative (...)
He was very generous in his comments about Islam's contributions to civilization. ... There also hasn't really been any other Western leader who has expressed such commitment to fighting negative stereotypes regarding Muslims.
– Chandra Muzaffar, (...)
India honored six security officers who were killed while responding to the attacks on Mumbai with the country's highest peacetime award during Republic Day celebrations Monday.
President Pratibha Patil presented the Ashok Chakra medals to the (...)
user industries, stressing that “the issues that face our industry are too important for us to tackle in isolation, and the challenges and opportunities that confront our companies are too large to consider taking them on (...)
AUGUST TO PREVENT FURTHER INSTABILITY IN A COUNTRY ALREADY CRIPPLED BY WAR.
DIPLOMATS HAD SAID IT WAS IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT CAMPAIGNING STARTED BY JUNE 30 -- THE DEADLINE SET UNDER EARLIER PEACE DEALS FOR THE ENTIRE PROCESS TO BE COMPLETED -- (...)
entered the Earth's atmosphere, searing
gases melted the wing from the inside out, causing the ship
to disintegrate. The seven astronauts on board were killed.
NASA officials have given their blessing to Discovery's
return, saying the ship (...)
Columbia mission this year, with just a few days in late September and a few days in November available for flights to the International Space Station.
President George W. Bush has ordered the shuttle fleet to be retired in 2010. It would be (...)
term aid commitments that would allow poor countries to raise money on global capital markets.
Blair, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the G8 grouping of wealthy countries this year, is still pushing for other nations to join in his (...)
part of a U.S.-led force of at least 10,000 -- said earlier that guerrillas were battling hard in Falluja's northern Jolan district.
"They are putting up a strong fight and I saw many of them on the street I was on," Captain Robert Bodisch told (...)
wing opposition to his Gaza withdrawal plan.
Political sources said Sharon would review the operation again during Sunday's cabinet meeting, but was unlikely to call it off without guarantees that Hamas rocket attacks would cease.
"If we pull out (...)