Rediff.com takes a look at the enthralling spectacle that is the month of Ramazan.
Rediff.com takes a look at the enthralling spectacle that is the month of Ramazan.
Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were involved in the killing of 148 Shiite Muslims in 1982.
A Keralite, 49, has been taken captive allegedly by a 6 member armed group at Sanaa in strife torn Yemen, according to information reaching the family in Malappuram.
Abdel-Zahraa Othman was among four Iraqis killed in the blast, an Iraqi source said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the bombing, which was felt across the city.
India on Tuesday night got permission to dock its ship at the Aden harbour for the evacuation of nearly 400 Indians from the sea port city as the government launched a massive air and sea evacuation operation for its over 4,000 nationals in strife-torn Yemen.
The suicide bombing near the diplomatic post was the first of three targeting Saudi Arabia on Monday -- including one outside the the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Islam's second holiest site -- that killed four Saudi security troops and wounded five.
India on Wednesday asked all its nationals not to travel to Yemen in view of the ongoing conflict and fragile security situation there.
Sources said that at least five explosions were reported from different parts of the city.
They were shot on Friday as they headed for Karbala in a bus, officials said.
"We think that the US is following another policy trying to hide its defeats and failures and that is why it is pointing its fingers to others," he said.
India on Monday lodged a protest with Israel after one of its soldiers, part of United Nations peace-keeping mission in Lebanon, was injured in military action there.
Sunnis have voted against the constitution.
This is Talabani's first visit since assuming office.
Did Saddam deserve death sentence for his crimes?
India has decided to extend air evacuation from Yemen till Thursday following a rescue request by a group of 140 nurses even as it pulled out another 450 people from the war-ravaged country, taking the total number of evacuees to 4500.
16 police personnel were among those who died in militant attacks in a Sunni-dominated area of Baghdad.
The death sentence could be carried out within the next 30 days.
Rouhani, who is on his maiden visit, will meet President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday and will discuss cooperation on regional and international issues of mutual concern.
As soon as the trial started, television pictures showed a defiant Saddam Hussein asking the Judge, "Who are you? What are you doing here? I need to know."
There have been three attacks on Wednesday by suicide bombers and gunmen.
Efforts to meet the August 15 deadline showed how determined Iraqis are to maintain political momentum under intense US pressure, but their failure to compromise was a clear sign that their sharp political divisions are far from over.
The woman broke down while relating how she had been forced to strip in custody.
"The Israeli and American intelligence agencies no doubt stand behind the bloody and bitter events that took place in holy Karbala and sacred Najaf," said Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Hossein Zolfaghari told Iran's state TV the apparently male attackers wore women's attire.
Four US soldiers were killed in a bombing on Monday near Haswa, about 50 kilometres south of Baghdad, a defence release said.
The CIA's bleak assessment was in sharp contrast to the optimistic picture painted by President George W Bush.
The attack is believed to be targeting the Shiite Hazara ethnic minority community.
Police suspect it to be a sectarian attack as all the cadets were from the Shiite sect.
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