Abbas suspends links with Israel Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas suspended all contacts with Israel on Sunday to protest against Israels air and ground offensive launched in Gaza on Saturday.
Iranian Prez visits Iraq after 2 decades
Hostile neighbours to start new chapter Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew to Baghdad on Sunday the first visit by an Iranian president since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s starting a new chapter in relations.
40 killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan At least 40 people were killed and 35 injured on Sunday in a daring suicide attack at a gathering of tribal elders and local officials in the restive North Western Frontier Province of Pakistan where the military is battling pro-Taliban militants.
MUSHARRAF LOSING GRIP
Top Pak lawyer released Top Pakistani lawyer and senior PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan, who had been under house arrest for four months since President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule last year, was freed on Sunday.
Thais cast partial votes for the Senate
Military calls the shots Thais voted on Sunday in the Senate elections, but were allowed to cast ballots for only about half the seats in one of the most controversial legacies of the recent military regime.
A Bhutanese refugee carries his bicycle from his burnt house in Goldhap Bhutanese refugee camp in the Jhapa District of eastern Nepal on Sunday after a fire razed the camp and destroyed 1,300 makeshift homes made of bamboo. More than 12,000 people were left homeless after a fire swept through a Bhutanese refugee camp in southeast Nepal.AFP
Who’s to be blamed the most for Karnataka’s failure to get enough railway projects and funds during the last four years. Lalu Prasad, State MPs or the UPA government.Deccan Herald had invited readers’ opinion on the issue. Most of our readers blamed the State MPs for the failure and have asked them to unite , barring party lines, to work for the welfare of the State.
