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CAIRO: Former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who says he is prepared to run in elections against President Hosni Mubarak, told AFP on Saturday that political change is the only way to avoid unrest in Egypt. “Change is coming for sure,” ElBaradei said in a telephone interview. “Change by peaceful means is the only way to [...]
SYDNEY: Israel’s Mossad has regularly faked Australian passports for its spies, an ex-agent said on Thursday, as anger grew over the use of foreign travel documents for an alleged assassination. Former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky told ABC public radio that the spy agency had used Australian passports for previous operations before last month’s hit [...]
DUBAI: Police widened their search in the hunt for the killers of a top Hamas militant in a luxury hotel, saying 15 new Western passport holders are now suspects, with the total number sought now 26. A police statement said the 15, including the holders of six British and three French passports, are being sought [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s parliamentary opposition leader on Tuesday praised the assassination of a Hamas commander by Mossad in Dubai last month, in the first such comment from a top official. Tzipi Livni of the centrist Kadima Party said the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was good, but she did not indicate who was behind the killing. “The [...]
TEHRAN: Iran has arrested top Sunni militant leader Abdolmalek Rigi who has been accused of masterminding a series of deadly bombings and killings, local media reported on Tuesday. Tehran based Arabic news channel Al-Alam said that he has been arrested in the “east of the country”, while the Fars news agency is quoting the Iranian [...]
RABAT: Morocco’s government, under fire after 41 worshippers died when a 400-year-old minaret collapsed, plans to double spending this year on rebuilding decaying mosques, Islamic affairs minister Ahmed Toufiq said. But Toufiq, whose ministry controls the north African country’s 50,000 mosques, warned that similar tragedies could happen before the delicate restoration work is completed, reports [...]
DUBAI: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas official assassinated in Dubai, was betrayed by a close associate, the emirate’s police chief claimed as it emerged today that the Palestinian’s murderers used more fake Irish passports. Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim described whoever leaked details of Mahbouh’s arrival to his assassins as “the real killer”, Abu Dhabi’s al-Khalij [...]
TEL AVIV/TEHRAN: Israel’s Air Force on Sunday introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and fly as far as the Persian Gulf, putting Iran within their range. The new aircraft, called the Heron TP, has a wingspan of 86 feet, making it the size of [...]
On Thursday, the same day that Israel’s ambassador to Britain was asked to tell the British government if he knew anything about the apparent use of cloned British passports by suspects in the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai last month, his embassy’s official Twitter feed posted a joking reference to the killing. After [...]
RABAT: At least 36 people died and 71 were injured after the minaret of a historic 18th century mosque collapsed in the central Moroccan city of Meknes during Friday prayers, the interior ministry said. Local officials said the toll could mount. “The minaret and part of the roof fell on the congregation which had gathered [...]
DUBAI: Interpol should help arrest the head of Mossad if Israel’s spy agency was responsible for the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the emirate’s police chief said today. In comments to be aired on Dubai TV, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim called for Interpol to issue “a red notice against the head of [...]
RAMADI: A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and wounded 21 on Thursday in Iraq’s increasingly turbulent western Anbar province, a senior Iraqi army official and police told Reuters. A medical source said Ramadi’s main hospital had received 13 bodies and 26 people had been wounded. Separately, in the violent city of Mosul [...]
JERUSALEM: A key security operative of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was under arrest in Syria tonight on suspicion of having helped an alleged Israeli hit squad identify Mahmoud al-Mabhouh before he was assassinated in Dubai. Palestinian sources in the Gulf confirmed Nahro Massoud, a Hamas security official, was in detention and under interrogation in [...]
JERUSALEM: British authorities are investigating how six British nationals apparently had their identities stolen by suspected Mossad agents on a mission to assassinate a Hamas leader in Dubai. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed that the identities used by six members of the 11-strong hit squad were those of real British passport holders living in [...]
DUBAI: The Dubai police department today released photos of the 11 people allegedly responsible for assassinating Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last month — and the chief of police says he’s close to issuing arrest warrants for the group. Everyone in the group held European passports, according to police: six British, three Irish, one French and [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel may lack the military means for successful pre-emptive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, its former top general said on Saturday. While endorsing international efforts to pressure Tehran into curbing sensitive nuclear technologies, Israel has hinted it could resort to force. But some analysts say Israeli jets would be stymied by the distance to [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. They are also suspected of recent killings in Dubai, [...]
PARIS: Reza Pahlavi, whose father, the shah of Iran, was toppled from power 31 years ago, said the international community must step up its support for Iran’s opposition movement and stop focusing on the country’s nuclear program. In an interview with The Associated Press, Pahlavi said nations such as the United States should not ”even [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan assured Palestinian people on Friday of its continued unequivocal support for an independent and sovereign Palestinian state with Al Quds as its capital. The pledge was conveyed to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who was in Islamabad for a daylong visit during which he met President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza [...]
TEHRAN: The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran is now capable of enriching Uranium above 80 percent level. Addressing a rally Ahmadinejad said that Iran has no intentions of making a nuclear bomb but if it does it would do that candidly. Ahmadinejad said that the first consignment of 20 percent enriched Uranium and [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
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Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
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Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
