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Pakistan Opposition leader released
Another blow to Musharraf

Bush allays Musharraf’s concerns over new law
ISLAMABAD: In a show of support to a politically embattled ally, United States President George Bush telephoned President Pervez Musharraf on Friday and tried to allay concerns about a new legislation on security aid to Pakistan, and said ...

20 LTTE cadres killed, says Colombo
COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Army has claimed that at least 20 cadres of the Tamil Tigers were killed and five others injured in the past 24 hours as the fighting spread to the north. A statement by the Defence Ministry said the Tiger cadres ...

Thousands of U.S. bridges deficient
WASHINGTON: More than 70,000 bridges across the U.S. are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion. ...

Russia to deploy navy in Mediterranean
MOSCOW: An increasingly assertive Russia has declared the Mediterranean a zone of its strategic interests and vowed to set up a permanent naval presence in the region. “The operational reach of the [Russian Black Sea] fleet covers ...

Nepal adopts new national anthem
KATHMANDU: Nepal has adopted a new national anthem after it revoked the earlier one following the popular uprising against the monarchy in April last year. Interim Parliament Speaker Subas Nembang made public the new anthem at a ...

Civilians killed in U.S. air strike
KANDAHAR (Afghanistan): The U.S.-led coalition said on Friday it had launched an air strike on a meeting of top Taliban commanders in a militant stronghold in Afghanistan, and local officials said more than a dozen rebels and civilians were ...

U.K. plans new security vetting scheme
London: In its effort to tighten the screws on terror suspects, Britain plans to introduce a new security vetting scheme from next month for all non-European Union students, including those from India, who want to study in U.K. universities ...

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