CAIRO, 8 April 2005 — An explosion went off at a popular bazaar near Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo yesterday, killing at least two tourists and wounding nineteen, police officials said. A statement... Full Story
PEACE BRIDGE, India-Pakistan Border, 8 April 2005 — Hopes for lasting India-Pakistan peace surged yesterday as bus passengers defied militants and crossed the militarized line dividing Kashmir for... Full Story
BAGHDAD, 8 April 2005 — Iraq’s first elected government in half a century finally took shape yesterday when a Jalal Talabani, who becomes the first Kurdish head of state in an Arab country, took oath
BEIRUT, 8 April 2005 — Syria began yesterday the final phase of a troop pullout ending 29 years of military presence in Lebanon where consultations for a new Cabinet to oversee much-awaited legislative
AMMAN, 8 April 2005 — A new Jordanian Cabinet composed of economic reformers close to King Abdallah took office yesterday, charged by the monarch with speeding up liberal reforms. Abdallah told
CAIRO, 8 April 2005 — Egypt’s Supreme Military Court released on Wednesday a top member of the 94 Islamist militants charged with plotting to assassinate top officials and attempting to smuggle weapons
DEIR SHARAF, West Bank, 8 April 2005 — A nauseating stench rises from this disused West Bank quarry where rubbish from a Jewish settlement is slowly piling up. With thousands of tons more Israeli waste
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, 8 April 2005 — Suspected Taleban militants killed five policemen in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a spate of attacks, residents and a foreign security source said yesterday. The
KHARTOUM, 8 April 2005 — Sudan’s ruling National Congress has been holding rapprochement talks with the breakaway Popular Congress party of jailed leader Hassan Turabi, the opposition group said yesterday. Popular
VATICAN CITY, 8 April 2005 — Presidents and patriarchs joined a teeming multitude of ordinary pilgrims in Rome yesterday as the world prepared for Pope John Paul’s funeral, the biggest in modern times. Italian
WASHINGTON, 8 April 2005 — Congressman Tom DeLay, the House Majority leader in Congress, has become a lightening rod for criticism of abusing his position. Foreign trips taken by the Texas Republican
SALAMABAD, India, 8 April 2005 —The first bus service linking divided Kashmir brought thousands of people out onto the streets in joy yesterday openly weeping and dancing, optimistic for peace after
CALCUTTA, 8 April 2005 — An orthopedic surgeon has been ordered to pay Rs500,000 to a patient who lost his right arm because of the surgeon’s criminal negligence. A consumer court yesterday
ISLAMABAD, 8 April 2005 — China has offered Pakistan further assistance in nuclear power generation and proposed 5 to 10 year medium- and long-term development programs to promote trade, investment
DHAKA, 8 April 2005 — An agreement clearing the way for the first direct flights between China and Bangladesh was signed yesterday as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Dhaka on the second leg of his
