Scotsman.com News - Internationalnews-world:WorldIraq pushes US troop withdrawal- July 8, 2008 NOURI al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, yesterday raised the prospect of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops as part of negotiations over a new security ahttp://news.scotsman.com/world/Iraq-pushes---US.4264199.jp Urgent call to deploy UN troops- July 8, 2008 UNITED Nations peacekeepers must be deployed in Somalia without delay or risk worsening insecurity in the Horn of Africa, its prime minister warned yesterday during a visithttp://news.scotsman.com/world/Urgent-call-to-deploy-UN.4264225.jp 41 die in embassy bomb attack- July 8, 2008 AFGHANISTAN'S government has blamed "foreign agents in the region" a reference to Pakistan for yesterday's suicide car bomb attack on the Indian embassy ihttp://news.scotsman.com/world/41-die---in.4264231.jp Baseball star's 'marriage over' after Madonna link- July 8, 2008 THE wife of top US baseball player Alex Rodriguez filed for divorce yesterday days after the New York Yankees star was romantically linked to Madonna.http://news.scotsman.com/world/Baseball-star39s-39marriage--over39.4264166.jp Union anger after Sarkozy says 'no-one notices strikes'- July 8, 2008 FRANCE'S powerful trade union leaders have lashed out at the president after he said in a speech this weekend that strikes in his country now had little impact.http://news.scotsman.com/world/Union-anger-after-Sarkozy-says.4264196.jp Man detained in 'illegal' crossing- July 8, 2008 UKRAINIAN authorities are trying to determine how a Hungarian man ended up deep inside their territory wearing a flight suit, a helmet and a night-vision device.http://news.scotsman.com/world/Man--detained-in-39illegal39.4264180.jp Foreign briefing- July 7, 2008 WITH the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt it looks like one of the world's most powerful drugs cartels, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), is falling aphttp://news.scotsman.com/world/Foreign-briefing.4261083.jp Missile kills 20 wedding guests- July 7, 2008 AT LEAST 20 people attending a wedding were killed in a missile strike by coalition forces in Afghanistan, it was reported yesterday.http://news.scotsman.com/world/Missile-kills-20--.4261182.jp Suicide bomb attack on Islamabad police station slaughters 15- July 7, 2008 A SUICIDE bomber struck near a police station in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, yesterday, killing at least 15 people, mostly police officers, and wounding dozens more, offhttp://news.scotsman.com/world/Suicide-bomb-attack-on-Islamabad.4261090.jp Retired generals jailed for coup plot- July 7, 2008 TWO retired generals were jailed yesterday in connection with an alleged plot to topple Turkey's Islamic-rooted government.http://news.scotsman.com/world/Retired-generals--jailed-for.4261092.jp |