Washington - US President George W Bush, who was to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy later Saturday, was expected to host a global summit on the finance crisis in the US, the New York Times reported online.
The Times quoted an unnamed senior White House official as saying Bush was to announce his invitation at Camp David, the presidential retreat where the two men and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso were to meet.
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have agreed that the United Nations will host an international summit on reforming the global financial system in December, the French daily Le Figaro reported Saturday on its website.
It remains unclear who is to participate at the meeting, which Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have said should be "a new Bretton Woods."
Baghdad - Tens of thousands of supporters of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against the draft security deal being considered by the Iraqi and US legislatures.
Al-Sadr called for all Iraqis to reject the deal, known as the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), saying that it would only prolong the occupation of Iraq.
Al-Sadr's message was read by Sheikh Hadi al-Mahdawi in front of an estimated 50,000 protestors, who gathered in Baghdad with Iraqi flags chanting anti-US slogans.
Marmagao Port (Goa), Oct 18 : The Indian and the US navies are all set to engage each other in war games in the Arabian Sea.
The exercises, which will be undertaken under the recurrent Malabar series of exercises that commenced in 1992, would take place from October 20 in Goa.
Diverse activities ranging from gun-firing and fighter combat operations from aircraft carriers, to combating the scourge of terror, through Maritime Interdiction Operations exercises would be included during the exercises.
Washington, Oct 18 : United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher described the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement as “unique” which cannot be replicated elsewhere as a model.
He further said that the Bush Administration has made it clear that Pakistan cannot be the beneficiary of a similar deal.
Lahore, Oct 18 : Though it has now become “so critical” for the Bush administration to provide Pakistan with new and refurbished F-16 jet fighters to fight the Taliban, the US Congress is still not sure as to why Islamabad needed the jets when it was fighting the extremists on the ground.
According to a Christian Science Monitor (CSM), the US Congress was not sure “Islamabad could be trusted to use the planes against tribal Taliban”.
Washington - US President George W Bush, who was to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy later Saturday, was expected to host a global summit on the finance crisis in the US, the New York Times reported online. 
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have agreed that the United Nations will host an international summit on reforming the global financial system in December, the French daily Le Figaro reported Saturday on its website.
Baghdad - Tens of thousands of supporters of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against the draft security deal being considered by the Iraqi and US legislatures.
Marmagao Port (Goa), Oct 18 : The Indian and the US navies are all set to engage each other in war games in the Arabian Sea.
Washington, Oct 18 : United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher described the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement as “unique” which cannot be replicated elsewhere as a model.
Lahore, Oct 18 : Though it has now become “so critical” for the Bush administration to provide Pakistan with new and refurbished F-16 jet fighters to fight the Taliban, the US Congress is still not sure as to why Islamabad needed the jets when it was fighting the extremists on the ground.
