Archive for March 17th, 2008

Argentina, Brazil to drop U.S. dollar in bilateral commercial transactions

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Argentina and Brazil are to scrap bilateral commercial transactions in U.S. dollars and start using their own currencies from August, an official in charge of currency settlement at the Argentine Central Bank said here Saturday. The ...

Policeman killed, 4 people injured in bomb attacks in Baghdad

Monday, March 17th, 2008

A policeman was killed and four people were wounded by roadside bomb explosions in Baghdad on Monday morning, an Interior Ministry source said. "A roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol at about 7:10 a.m. (0410 GMT) in the al- ...

UN police raid court in Kosovo, arrest Serb demonstrators

Monday, March 17th, 2008

UN police and NATO peacekeepers on Monday raided a UN courthouse in northern Kosovo, retaking the building from Serb demonstrators who had occupied the building for three days, local media reported. In the dawn operation in the town ...

Pakistan’s new parliament session begins amid tight security

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The inaugural session of Pakistan's National Assembly or the lower house of parliament begins at 11:50 a.m. local time Monday, in which the members-elected will take oath. The parliament session was originally scheduled at 11 a.m. M ...

Survey: Eight in 10 Singaporeans shop online

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Eight in 10 Singaporeans have shopped online, with travel-related products such as plane tickets and hotel rooms the most popular buy, local media reported on Monday. The Straits Times, Singapore's leading English daily newspaper, q ...

Suicide attack kills 3, injures over 10 civilians in S. Afghanistan

Monday, March 17th, 2008

A suicide bomber carried out explosion attack against a convoy of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province Monday morning, killing at least three civilians and wounding seven oth ...

40 years after massacre, My Lai survivors pray for the dead

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Forty years after rampaging American soldiers slaughtered her family, Do Thi Tuyet returned to the place where her childhood was shattered. "Everyone in my family was killed in the My Lai massacre - my mother, my father, my brother and t ...

Death toll from ammunition dump blast rises to nine

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Troops and police cordoned off a smoldering army depot north of the Albanian capital as crews searched yesterday for workers missing following a chain of explosions that killed at least nine people and injured hundreds. Nine bodies have ...