Archive for May 2nd, 2008

First U.S. ambassador to ASEAN confirmed

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday welcomed the U.S. Senate's confirmation of the appointment of Scot Marciel as the first ever U.S. Ambassador to the regional grouping. "This is a clear and significant ges ...

Somali militant group vows to revenge for slain leader

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

A Somali militant group vowed to avenge the killing of its commander in a U.S. air strike, according to a statement posted on a website on Thursday. Militants in Somalia would "exact revenge from America," said the statement whose a ...

UAE bars 6 foreign newspapers for lack of printing rights

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) barred six foreign languages newspapers from going to press in the country due to their lack of printing rights, local newspaper Gulf News reported on Friday. The decision was made by the UAE National ...

Olmert to face police questioning Friday

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to be questioned by police for an hour Friday morning, his office said in a statement Thursday night. The statement closely follows a Channel 2 report that police has arranged a questioning on F ...

Mubarak, Olmert discuss on phone proposed Palestinian-Israeli truce

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday discussed on phone a proposed Palestinian-Israeli truce, the Egyptian MENA news agency reported. The two leaders also probed on means to lift the Is ...

Death toll rises to 35 in Iraq wedding suicide attacks

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The death toll rose to 35 in double suicide blast which struck a wedding convoy Thursday evening in northeast of Baghdad, and 76 others were wounded, police said. The two suicide bombers, one of them a female, blew themselves off as ...

Islamic Jihad says not to be first to break ceasefire

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement will neither formally sign an Egypt-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel nor be the first to break it, Israeli daily Ha'aretz quoted a senior Jihad member as saying Thursday. All 12 Palestinian fact ...

Iraqi Shiite MPs in Iran for talks with Sadr

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

A delegation from Shiite lawmakers in the Iraqi parliament headed to Iran for talks with anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to end ongoing clashes between Sadr followers and U.S-backed Iraqi troops, a Sadr spokesman said on Thursday. ...