Gordon
Brown, Britain's New leader,
is Finally Smiling by Anna Tomforde
After 13 years of waiting for the top job, Gordon Brown, who will be
Britain's new prime minister, is finally smiling.
During his 10 years in government, as Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Brown remained something of an enigma to Britons, a politician
respected for his professional skills but with little popular
appeal. Read On
Brown
Takes Over as Labour Leader
by Prasun Sonwalkar
Gordon Brown was Sunday
formally elected leader of the Labour Party - 13 years after he
conceded the party leadership to Tony Blair that led to an uneasy
relationship between him as the chancellor and Blair as the prime
minister. Read On
Jordan's
King Meets Abbas
Ahead of Egypt Summit
Jordan's King Abdullah II conferred Sunday with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas on the agenda of the upcoming four-party
conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, and
urged participants to come up with a definite plan for the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Read On
'Chemical Ali' Defiant
as he Receives Death Sentence
Iraq's special tribunal
Sunday found five defendants guilty in the late-1980s campaign
against the Kurds, sentencing three to death and two to life prison
terms. Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein better known
as "Chemical Ali", was sentenced to death for his role in the
genocide against Kurds in the infamous Anfal (Spoils) campaign waged
by Saddam Hussein's Baath regime as the Iraq-Iran War was nearing
its end. Read On
Can Bush
be Sued for his
Signing-Unsigning Spree? by Arun
Kumar
George Bush has been on a signing spree since he came to the
White House turning bills into law with a stroke of his pen and then
"unsigning" with another bits and parts he doesn't like. There were
few murmurs of protest before, but now those new Democratic guys up
on the Capitol Hill are telling the President of the United States
that he is no king who could go cherry picking to have his cake and
eat it too. Read On
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Rain, Storm Kill 200 in Pakistan
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NATO Regrets Civilian Killings, Jirga Summoned
• Hamas Considers Egypt Summit A Bid to
Isolate It
• Hamas Hardliner Calls for Islamic state
in Gaza
• Israel Agrees to Transfer Frozen Tax
Funds
to Palestinians
Labour
Party to Elect Brown as Leader
By Prasun Sonwalkar
After 13 years, the Labour party will have a new leader Sunday. A
special Labour leadership conference in Manchester will announce the
name of senior politician Gordon Brown, who will then take over as
the next British Prime Minister on Wednesday.
Read On
Iran, EU
Pledge to Continue Nuclear Talks
Iran and the European Union have agreed to continue talks aimed
at ending an impasse over Tehran's nuclear programme, according to
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy
chief Javier Solana. Iran has so far refused to halt ...
Read On
Last of
'Dancing Bears' in Bulgaria
Rescued from Torment
The sight of tormented bears, forced to "dance" in Bulgaria's
capital Sofia and in Black Sea resorts, has finally been swept into
the past in the entire European Union. The last three known "dancing
bears" in Bulgaria were recently bought from their owners and
released into the Belitsa nature reservation, 180 km southeast of
Sofia, to join 20 other brown bears rescued earlier.
Read On
Mexico's Shoe Industry Fights for Survival
For years well over 1,200 Mexican companies have made leather
shoes, handbags and clothes, without having to fear any foreign
competition. However, the free trade agreements Mexico signed with
various countries since the 1990s have opened the domestic market.
Read On
Pakistani
Radicals Set $11 Mn Bounty
on Rushdie's Head
A group of Islamic scholars in northwest Pakistan placed a $11.5
million bounty on author Salman Rushdie's head, whose knighthood in
Britain sparked an angry response across the Muslim world recently,
a report said Saturday. Read On
EU Leaders
Clinch Hard-fought Treaty Deal
EU leaders Saturday launched negotiations on a new treaty,
successfully ending a fraught three-day summit on reforming the
27-nation bloc. Leaders clinched the hard-fought deal after Poland
accepted an 11th-hour proposal delaying Warsaw's implementation of a
new voting system until 2017. Read On
Lesbian
Politician to open Closet
for Japan's Homosexuals
Kanako Otsuji wants to open
the closet for Japan's gay and lesbian community in order to
increase their visibility and help them gain their basic rights as
citizens. The nation's first openly lesbian politician is running
for a seat in upper house ... Read On
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Presidential poll:
Shekhawat to File Papers Monday
Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat will file his nomination
papers Monday for the July 19 presidential election, even as there
were indications that Pratibha Patil, the nominee of India's ruling
coalition, could get some votes from a fractured opposition.
Read On
Downpour Lashes Mumbai, Death Toll Rises to Five
Heavy overnight showers claimed three more lives in the nation's
financial capital Sunday, taking the death toll to five. Life was
thrown out of gear as transport services were disrupted with several
areas remaining water-logged. South Mumbai has received 200 mm of
rainfall since Saturday evening. Read
On
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Eight Intruders
Killed in Kashmir
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Flood Situation
Eases in Andhra Pradesh
• Fake Passport, Visa Racket Unearthed; One Held
• CPI-M to Hold National Conference of Party
Workers
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Gujjars
Demand Raje's Resignation
• Sikhs March to Seek Dera Chief's Arrest
• Police Clueless as Maoists Abduct 10
Tribals
• A Type of Virus Could Help Kick Drinking
Uncertainty in Pakistan: Peace Process On Hold
by Manish Chand
Political uncertainty in Pakistan sparked by mass protests
against President Pervez Musharraf and threats by exiled leaders
that New Delhi should not rush to sign agreements with the
military-backed regime may have forced India to put the peace
diplomacy with its neighbour on hold. Read On
A CSE
Book On How To Save The Yamuna
Discarding the Yamuna Action
Plan's (YPA) initiatives for cleaning up the river by setting up
sewage treatment plants, the Centre of Science and Environment has
come up with possible solutions to the Yamuna's woes, putting it all
down in a book. Read On
Wails
of Pain for Assam Blast Victims
by Syed Zarir Hussain
Four-year-old Mafizul was writhing in pain at a hospital in India's
restive northeastern state of Assam, his arms and legs heavily
bandaged with blood stains visible from outside the cotton gauze.
Little Mafizul is oblivious of the fact that his five-year-old
sister Hanifa was no more - both of them victims of a powerful
explosion...Read On
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No Full Stops
for Jharkhand Women
• Indian Market Says Cheers to Beer
• Cluster-based Approach Best for SMEs
• Indian Army Chief Leaves for France,
Britain
• Rains Abate in Southern India, Mumbai
Hit Hard
• NRIs Plan Mega Events
to Celebrate India's Independence
• Height the Main Issue
Over C'wealth Games 2010 Village
• USIBC Awards for Mukesh Ambani,
Boeing's McNerney
• Emaar MGF Plans India's Largest Mall,
Armani Hotel
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• 'Vote for Taj' Campaign a Gimmick
• Devotees Flock to Worship 'Miracle'
Trees in Nepal
• Buddhist Monk Files Suit for Cutting of
Bodhi Tree
• Where Lovers
Come to Pay Their Annual Homage
• Flavors of the Northeast in the Lanes of
Delhi
Maoist
'Crown Prince' Goes to China
by Sudeshna Sarkar
When they fought their
10-year 'People's War' inspired by Chinese leader Mao Zedong's
teaching that power comes "out of the barrels of a gun", Nepal's
Maoist guerrillas were condemned by Beijing for "bringing disrepute"
to their great leader. But now Maoist supremo Prachanda's son is on
a China tour on the invitation of the country's intellectuals.
Read On
Kashmir
in a Death Trap of Landmines
by Sarwar Kashani
A huge population in the frontier villages of Jammu and Kashmir
continues to be caught in a death trap of landmines since 2002,
bearing the brunt of a war that was never fought.
Read On
Sri Lanka
Can Expect Private Censure
After Co-chairs Meet by M.R. Narayan
Swamy
Amid a virtual war and rampant rights abuses, the international
community overseeing Sri Lanka's tattered peace process is expected
to privately censure Colombo after a meeting in Oslo Tuesday.
Read On
Shahnaz
Hussain Takes Ayurveda
to London's Harley Street
India's leading beautician
Shahnaz Hussain has tied up with a partner in Harley Street - a
street here known for private health care centres that are
frequented by celebrities - and is introducing Ayurveda treatment
for high-end clients. Read On
CPI-M
Meet to Decide Fate
of Suspended Politburo Members
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) begins a crucial
three-day meet Sunday to decide important matters, including the
fate of two prominent Kerala leaders - Chief Minister V.S.
Achuthanandan and state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan - who were
suspended from the politburo. Read On
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