Day October 23, 2005

Damascus – Syria’s highest political body, the National Progressive Front, on Sunday rejected a UN report implicating Damascus in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri as a distortion of the truth. The report drawn up by German judge…

A Republican senator said Sunday that it would be appropriate for any White House aide to step aside if indicted in the CIA leak investigation. The grand jury term expires Friday. Thus the indictments (and I assume there will be…

China will shut its borders if there is a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country, its deputy health minister has said. As bird flu entered Britain yesterday with the discovery of the virus in a…