Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) The United Sates (US) US Congress has voted in favour of allowing the export of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India for the first time in 30 years.
It was agrred that the legislation will now be sent to US President George Washington Bush to be signed into la
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) At least 45 women died and some 8 others suffered carbon monoxide poisoning or other injuries after a fire broke out at a Moscow hospital for drug addicts.
According to officials, arson caused the overnight fire at Hospital 17 in the city's south-west and they are "90%
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) The Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani has criticised some of the main findings of a high-level US report calling for a change of strategy in Iraq.
The Iraqi leader rejected the Iraq Study Group's proposal to withdraw US troops if Iraq failed to strengthen security.
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) Following a call by the Hezbollah-led opposition to step up their 10-day campaign to topple Lebanon's Western-backed government, a huge number of protestors flocked Lebanon’s central Beirut on Sunday.
As a sign of confidence, the chanting crowds swamped two squares
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) The United States (US) president, George W Bush has ruled out early talks with Iran and Syria on tackling Iraq's unrest, after meeting UK premier, Tony Blair at the White House.
Bush and Blair’s talk came a day after a damning US report called for such a move as pa
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) A Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus well known for his microcredit loan schemes for the poor was awarded Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday.
Yunus, 66, shared the award with his Grameen Bank which he founded for helping people rise above poverty by giving them microcr
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) At least 5 people died and 44 others sustained injuries when a car bomb explosion rocked the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, holy to Shiites, on Saturday morning, Karbala police and hospital sources said.
A source said another car bomb exploded in Iraq’s Mosul's Ya
Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) US’ outgoing Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made an unannounced appearance in Iraq on Saturday to say a final farewell to U.S. troops, a Defense Department spokesman said.
Donald Rumsfeld will be succeeded on 18 December by former CIA chief Robert Gates AP has
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) Thousands of Chileans streamed into the streets of Santiago after hearing that their former president, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, had died Sunday. Many danced and popped open champagne, while caravans of cars with horns blaring toured the capital for hours.
"These peop
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) Traces of the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 were found in a German apartment visited by a contact of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, before the two men met in London, authorities said Sunday.
The polonium traces were found on a couch where Russian businessman
