SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, 27 July 2005 — Egypt yesterday denied the involvement of Pakistanis in Saturday’s blast in this Red Sea resort as investigators identified an Egyptian as a possible suicide
LONDON, 27 July 2005 — In another day of fast developments, Scotland Yard yesterday said they believed they had found the bomb factory where the five devices, which failed to explode in last Thursday’s
BEIRUT, 27 July 2005 — A notorious anti-Syrian Christian warlord was released yesterday after 11 years in prison, the latest reconciliatory step in civil war-scarred Lebanon. Before flying to
AMSTERDAM, 27 July 2005 — Judges yesterday handed down a maximum life sentence to the Dutch-born Muslim who shot, stabbed and nearly decapitated filmmaker Theo van Gogh, denouncing his “glorification
BAGHDAD, 27 July 2005 — An early draft of Iraq’s new constitution suggested Islam will play a key role in the country’s basic law, as an Al-Qaeda linked group yesterday released footage of two kidnapped
KHARTOUM, 27 July 2005 — Sudanese government troops and rebels attacked each other in Darfur in fresh violence but one analyst said yesterday the international community is willing to give a new unity
JOWHAR, Somalia, 27 July 2005 — Somalia’s Transitional President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed arrived yesterday in the central town of Jowhar, which he insists will host the federal government as the Horn
ISMAILIA, Egypt, 27 July 2005 — The chairman of Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority objected yesterday to a project to link the Dead Sea and the Red Sea, saying it would increase the risk of earthquakes in
DAMASCUS, 27 July 2005 — Syria wants better ties with the United States, but not if this means submitting to endless demands from Washington, rather than working together for regional stability, its
FORT MEADE, Md., 27 July 2005 — Two Iraqis at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison were bitten by dogs as they were being handled by sergeants who were competing to see who could scare more detainees, a
WASHINGTON, 27 July 2005 — Insurgents have infiltrated the Iraqi police forces, according to an official US report that nevertheless assessed the results of US-run police training programs as a “qualified
BHOPAL, 27 July 2005 — The charges by the Congress party dubbing the Hindu fundamentalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh a terrorist outfit has been strongly refuted by the Bharatiya Janata
DHAKA, 27 July 2005 — The Bangladesh Cabinet has approved a proposal for signing a crucial UN instrument styled International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, meant for
