Archive for March 23rd, 2008

Former Chilean president travels to Antarctica to probe global warming

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos joined members of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society and some scientists in traveling to the Antarctica to probe global warming on Saturday. The group was la ...

Taliban guns down pro-government figure in S Afghanistan

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Taliban militants fighting Afghan government on Sunday shot dead a former Jihadi commander and pro-government figure in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, provincial police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal said. "Anti-government ...

Five killed in suicide truck bombing in N Iraq

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

A suicide truck bomb struck an Iraqi Army base in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, on Sunday, killing five soldiers and wounding 30 people, a provincial security source said. Source: Xinhua ...

France expected to send more troops to Afghanistan

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to inform British Prime Minister Gordon Brown next week of France's plan to send some 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan, reported the Times on Saturday. The newspaper quoted a senior Briti ...

Correa warns Ecuador-Colombia tension could worsen

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa warned Saturday that diplomatic tension with Colombia could rise again if Colombia's cross-border attack on a rebel camp inside Ecuador on March 1 proves to have killed an Ecuadorian. "It would be ...

Jamaican police find body of retired British nurse

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Police has found the body of a retired British nurse in a septic tank at her home in Jamaica, reports reaching here from Kingston said Saturday. The police and firefighters spent more than seven hours removing Barbara Jayne Scott's ...

Dozens of militants killed in S Afghanistan

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Afghan army backed by NATO troops have killed dozens of suspected insurgents in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, a press release of the Afghan Defense Ministry said Sunday. "In the operation dubbed Patanghar (Pashtun Mountai ...

Battle leaves 4 Taliban dead in Afghanistan

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Four Taliban insurgents were killed as in clash with Afghan police in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province Saturday, a local police official said Sunday. "The clash took place in Shahjoi district on Saturday, in which four rebels w ...