Dhaka, Aug. 11: Bangladesh’s state minister for local government and rural development Syed Abul Hossain has resigned after he used a second passport on a recent private visit to Singapore, officials at the Prime Minister’s office said on Monday. They said the minister tended his resignation letter on Sunday requesting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed…
BY SCOTT McCORMACK Southall (London), Aug. 11: The sign outside the local primary school sternly warns against parking in front of the gates — in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Within shouting distance of the modest building are a mosque, a church, Sikh and Hindu temples, plus the Sum Mari Bureau, proudly claiming to…
BY BRIAN WILLIAMS Mazar-e-Sharif, Aug. 11: The leader of Afghan Opposition forces besieging Kabul said on Monday he was ready for peace talks any time and anywhere, except in Pakistan. Northern alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood also made an impassioned plea in an interview for the United States and other major western nations to get…
‘Parties agree to resume trilateral meetings’ Jerusalem, Aug. 11: US envoy Dennis Ross has brought about the first meeting between Israeli officials and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat since an Islamic militant bombing deepened the crisis in West Asia peace efforts last month. But Israel has reiterated that it will only be satisfied if it sees…
Gaza, Aug. 11: Thousands of Palestinian protesters marched on Gaza’s main street on Monday demanding Israel free their prisoners and end a closure it posed after a suicide attack last month in Jerusalem. “As long as my son is in prison, I don’t feel any peace,” said a woman, whose 24-year-old son Ahmad is serving…
THE HAGUE, July 22.— The Dutch Government, in a statement handed to Dr Pelt, acting General Secretary of the United Nations, explaining why “police measures” had been taken in Indonesia, said that the Indonesians had violated the truce, it was disclosed today. The Note said: “The Republic’s unwillingness or inability to implement the Linggadjati agreement,…
Reuters correspondent Doon Campbell, who arrived in India in March 1947 fresh from covering World War II, spent the next 15 months in Delhi — a period which witnessed the independence of India and birth of Pakistan as well as the tragic assassination of Mahatma Gandhi a few months later. Campbell, 77, who is now…