Archive for April 23rd, 2008

Israel to resume fuel shipments to Gaza

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Israel is set to resume piping fuel to Gaza power plant Wednesday after a week of halting, director of the Palestinian petrol agency said. "Today, two million liters of industrial diesel will be allowed into Gaza and the station wil ...

U.S. border states call for tighter control of borders

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Governors of California, Arizona and New Mexico on Tuesday called for the extension of Operation Jump Start, a program aiming at reducing illegal border crossings and limiting the influx of narcotics and human trafficking. In a lett ...

5 killed as vehicle plunges into deep ravine in NW Pakistan

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Five people were killed when a vehicle plunged into a deep ravine in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday morning. The official Associated Press of Pakistan quoted police as saying that the vehicle carrying employees of Telecommunicat ...

Afghan police arrest Taliban commander

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Police in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province detained a Taliban commander who was in charge of facilitating and carrying out suicide bombings in the restive province, said a statement of the Interior Ministry released Wednesday. ...

Confrontation kills 67 in northern Sri Lanka

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

At least 52 Tamil Tiger rebels and 15 government soldiers were killed in a major confrontation in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula Wednesday morning, officials said. Officials from the Media Center for National Security said th ...

Japan sentences rapist, baby-killer to death

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

A man who killed a woman and her 11-month-old baby daughter in 1999 when he was 18 was sentenced to death by a Japanese court on Tuesday. The case, in which the youth strangled and raped the woman and killed her daughter, prompted a ...

Hillary on edge as key state votes in primary

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Democrats in Pennsylvania made their choice yesterday in the presidential nominating race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with Clinton aiming for a big win to keep her flickering White House hopes alive. The New York senator wa ...

Hamas agrees to deal on Israel truce: Paper

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Egypt has reached a preliminary agreement with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, on a truce with Israel, Egypt's state newspaper al-Ahram said yesterday. "Egypt has reached a preliminary agreement with H ...