Archive for May 5th, 2008

Gaza militants attack Israeli targets with rockets, mortars

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Palestinian fighters fired several rockets and mortar shells at Israeli targets around the Gaza Strip on Sunday night and early Monday, factions said in separate statements. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of President Mahm ...

Israel arrests 25 Palestinians in West Bank after Rice’s visit

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Israeli forces arrested 25 Palestinians in the West Bank early Monday, local sources and Israeli radio reported. The sources said some of the detentions took place in Bethlehemand Azzon, near northern West Bank city of Jenin. During ...

Iran not to support incentives that violate "nuclear rights"

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Iran will not support any package of incentives offered by world powers that violate Iran's "nuclear rights," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Monday. "Incentives that in anyway violate our interests ...

Gunmen kill at least 11 cattle ranchers in Mexico

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Gunmen in Mexico killed at least 11 cattle ranchers in two weekend attacks in the nation's southern Guerrero state, police said Sunday. Traveling in 10 sport utility vehicles, the shooters sprayed bullets at a ranch in the town of Pe ...

S Chile volcano continues 1st eruption in 9,000 years

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Chile's Chaiten Volcano continued to spew ash into the sky Sunday as President Michelle Bachelet toured shelters crammed with evacuees fleeing the catastrophe in the nation's southern region. Roiling clouds of volcanic ash loomed ove ...

Pakistan’s ruling party leader files nomination papers for by-elections

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Shahbaz Sharif, President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Monday filed his nomination papers to contest the forthcoming by-elections, local TV channel Geo reported. Shahbaz Sharif, younger brother of former prime ministe ...

8 Philippine sailors rescued in Indonesia after piracy

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Indonesian fishermen have rescued eight Philippine sailors who were swimming the Malacca Strait after their boats were attacked by pirates, an official said Monday. The piracy of the two boats carrying the Filipinos took place Frida ...

4 kinds killed in explosion in Afghan capital

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Four children were killed on Monday morning in Afghan capital Kabul in an accidental blast, according to witnesses and officials. The blast occurred at a residential area on a hilly slope in western Kabul and the interior ministry s ...