London - Amnesty International has called on the government of Afghanistan to repeal the death sentences against 111 people who are on death row.
In a statement released in London Thursday, to coincide with a visit to London of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Amnesty said it feared that the reported executions of nine people since last week would be followed by further death sentences being carried out.
London, Nov. 13 : Politically-correct British Government rule-makers have banned a string of words to get religious fanatics on their side.
The move, however, has been slammed for causing confusion in the war on terror, a Daily Star report claims, adding that there still some Muslim hate clerics who are allowed to preach death in the UK.
Beirut - The Arab League has agreed to review the circumstances surrounding a series of purported confessions of terrorist attacks that were aired by Syrian state television last week.
Tallinn - NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer restated the military alliance's desire to see Ukraine join its ranks at a high-level conference being held in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, on Thursday.
In his opening speech, de Hoop Scheffer said the talks were taking place at a special moment in NATO-Ukraine relations.
Hanoi- A Chinese Navy warship will visit Vietnam next week, only the second such visit since Vietnam and China normalized relation in 1991, Vietnam's government spokesman confirmed Thursday.
The Chinese Navy training vessel Zheng He, which carries more than 400 military personnel, will dock at the port of Danang from November 18-22.
The "friendly visit" of the Chinese warship to Vietnam, government
London - British Telecom (BT) said Thursday that it would cut a total of 10,000 jobs in the current financial year, as part of an ongoing efficiency programme.
The news came after a string of similar job-cutting announcements by major British in the last fortnight, including Virgin Media, which shed 2,200 jobs, construction firm Taylor Wimpey and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.
Figures released Wednesday showed that Britain's unemployment total reached an 11-year high of 1.82 million in the three months to September, a figure that is expected to rise to 2 million by Christmas.
London - Amnesty International has called on the government of Afghanistan to repeal the death sentences against 111 people who are on death row. 
London, Nov. 13 : Politically-correct British Government rule-makers have banned a string of words to get religious fanatics on their side.
Beirut - The Arab League has agreed to review the circumstances surrounding a series of purported confessions of terrorist attacks that were aired by Syrian state television last week.
Tallinn - NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer restated the military alliance's desire to see Ukraine join its ranks at a high-level conference being held in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, on Thursday.
Hanoi- A Chinese Navy warship will visit Vietnam next week, only the second such visit since Vietnam and China normalized relation in 1991, Vietnam's government spokesman confirmed Thursday.
London - British Telecom (BT) said Thursday that it would cut a total of 10,000 jobs in the current financial year, as part of an ongoing efficiency programme.
