It is time for Arab states to stand up to Tel Aviv

Abbas rules out talks with Israel unless Jewish state changes its settlement policy SIRTE, Libya: Arab states should prepare for the pos

Recruit Afghan women to sell war to Europeans

WASHINGTON: A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afghan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the Nato-led war

Consensus growing on anti-veil law in Quebec

MONTREAL: Canada’s federal government is defending a controversial Quebec bill that seeks to ban Muslim women from wearing face-covering Burqa and niq

Russia on tenterhook over sanctions on Iran

MOSCOW/TEHRAN: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says putting sanctions on Iran for its nuclear programme is not the optimal path, but cannot be exclu

World at a Glance

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s influential former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday he was concerned that increasing racial friction could de

Israeli troops quit Gaza after worst clash

GAZA: Israeli troops and tanks left the Gaza Strip on Saturday, witnesses said, after the bloodiest clash in the Hamas-ruled enclave in 14 months kill

US troop deaths double in Afghanistan

KABUL: The number of US troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as W

Polls to be held by early November

‘Improper or inappropriate campaigning has to be avoided’; critics dismiss polls as sham designed to entrench generals’ power NAYPYIDAW

Nato allies are Baltic states’ eyes in the sky

ZOKNIAI AIR BASE, Lithuania: Colonel Sebastien Vallette swings back in his desk chair, minutes after landing his Mirage fighter on a Soviet-era runway

US-Russia N-arms treaty dubbed ‘New start’

WASHINGTON: The name, perhaps more than the content, of a new US-Russian arms treaty dubbed the “New START” conveys President Barack Obama’s message a

Vatican defends pope amid sexual abuse scandal

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican said Saturday that recent attacks on the church over its handling of clerical sex abuse cases have been harmful, but insiste

Naxals cause 40pc loss to Indian Railway

NEW DELHI: Naxal guerrillas have begun attacking the railway line network in the insurgency infested areas with telling effect, causing staggering los