Kandahar, Sept 11 : Reacting to US President George Bush’s recent announcement of sending more troops to Afghanistan, the Taliban have said that this would further aggravate the situation in the strife-torn country.

“Sending additional troops to Afghanistan is not a solution to the problem but will further fuel the fighting. It will also provide more chances to Taliban to attack the enemy. The more US troops are sent to Afghanistan, the more loss of lives the US forces will suffer,” The News quoted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as saying in an interview with an Afghan news agency.

Washington, Sept 11 : Women with casual and contract jobs are up to ten times more likely experience unwanted sexual advances than those in permanent full-time positions, a new study has found.

Led by Associate Professor Anthony LaMontagne of the McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, the University of Melbourne study examined the likelihood of sexual harassment in different types of employment.

Washington, Sept 11 : A top US military officer has said that America was not winning its war-on-terror in Afghanistan, and called for an overhaul in US’ war strategy, warning that thousands more troops were needed to battle an intensifying insurgency there, besides a greater US military involvement across the border in the strife-torn country’s tribal areas.

“I am not convinced that we’re winning it in Afghanistan. I’m convinced we can. Frankly, we are running out of time. Not sending US reinforcements to Afghanistan is too great a risk to ignore,” said Adm. Michael Mullen, who is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while testifying before the House Armed Services Committee.

London - British prosecutors Wednesday applied for a retrial of seven men accused of having planned to blow up airliners with liquid bombs after a jury failed to accept the proof of a link to airliners in controversial verdicts earlier this week.

The Crown Prosecution Service said its application for a retrial would "include a count that each defendant conspired to detonate improvised explosive devices on trans-Atlantic passenger aircraft."

London - The leaders of Italy and Britain Wednesday pledged to end the European economies' dependancy on oil by pushing ahead with investment in nuclear power and alternative energy sources.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in London for talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said Italy had "suffered from the Greens" in its ambitions to use nuclear power and he was determined to "catch up on lost time."

Washington, Sep 10 : The Indo-US nuclear should not be unnecessarily delayed and brought to a final vote immediately in American Congress because if this historic deal is finalised, it will contribute to strengthening global nonproliferation, said an US based Asia expert.

Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow for South Asia at the Heritage Foundation said that by making New Delhi a stakeholder in a system seeking to adapt itself to the most serious proliferation threats of the 21st century, there is no good reason to delay this landmark initiative any longer.