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. | Speaking in Egypt after talks with Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, Sarkozy said the time had come for deeds rather than words from Syria.
“We cannot wait any longer. Syria must stop talking, must demonstrate,” he said. |
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. | A US State Department spokesman said it was unfortunate North Korea had not yet met its commitments and was “slowing down the process of disablement”.
Pyongyang agreed in October to declare |
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. | Israeli troops killed 373 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank in 2007 up to December 29, compared to 657 last year, B’Tselem said in its annual report.
Thirty-five percent of the dead were not involved |
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. | “My mother always said that democracy is the best revenge,” Bilawal told a press conference in Naudero, Bhutto’s ancestral home in the Larkana district of Sindh province, shortly after being annointed the political successor.
Bilawal becomes the third Bhutto to lead the nation’s largest political party after his mother and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto – his grandfather and founder of the PPP who was executed in 1979. |
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. | Close to 2000 Palestinian pilgrims returning from Mecca refused return to the Gaza Strip through an Israeli-controlled border crossing.
The Gazan pilgrims have been at sea for more than 30 hours now waiting on two ships outside the Egyptian Red Sea port of Nuweiba after refusing |
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. | About 70 kilometers west of Kazakhstan’s commercial capital, Almaty, the village is dissected by a highway. Farmers work in the fields growing mainly melons and wheat.
But what lies underground in Samsy is a nearly forgotten page in Kazakh history. |
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. | “We will await Russia’s position till the last day of this year.
If Russia does not agree to mutual transmission of Azerbaijani TV channel in this country, we will take adequate steps,” chairman of National Television and Radio |
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. | 3. And now, Level 3 of Iranian encroachment onto national and human rights of Mr. Leysanli is to be tested on the 30th of December 2007, the release date from prison of Mr. Leysanli. The test depends on whether or not the deplorable act of flogging is inflicted on Mr. Leysanli, a defenceless prisoner of conscience, a poet and a leader of a nation. Naturally, the test on December the 30th will be seen whether or not all the civilised values within the Iranian authorities are depleted or still there are trickles left. |
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. | Al Qaeda-linked militants denied being behind the killing of the 54-year-old former prime minister although the government of nuclear-armed Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in fighting terrorism, had said on Friday it had proof of their involvement.
Bhutto’s party dismissed the government account, saying there was no hard evidence and President Pervez Musharraf’s embattled administration was trying to cover up its failure to protect her. |
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. | 31st of December is Solidarity Day of World Azerbaijanis. This day is celebrated all around the globe by Azerbaijani Turks.
Mr. Leysanli will receive 50 lashes tomorrow. It is another insult to Azerbaijanis on their national day. |
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. | Friday’s vote ensures the king will be removed immediately after constituent assembly elections scheduled for mid-April next year.
The agreement ended months of political deadlock with Nepal’s Maoist movement, who had insisted on an immediate abolition of the monarchy. |
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. | A parliamentary session had been due to take place later on Saturday, but has now been delayed until 12 January.
The presidency has been vacant since 23 November, when Emile Lahoud’s term ended without a successor being named. |
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. | Jacob Zuma, the new leader of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), has been summoned to stand trial after being re-charged with corruption, his lawyer said.
Zuma is to face a number of |
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. | Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev decreed on pardoning a number of prisoners.
President’s press service told APA that the head of state noted that he issued the pardon decree pursuing the policy of Azerbaijani state based on humanism and justice principles, considering the appeals of a number of prisoners, their families, Ombudsman, human |
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. | Pakistan’s government said it had evidence al Qaeda was responsible for killing Bhutto in a suicide attack at an election rally on Thursday, but her party dismissed the claim.
The 54-year-old’s death stoked fears a January 8 election meant to return Pakistan to civilian rule could be put off amid |
