BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Pakistan sacks 'father of bomb': "The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme has been removed from his post as a government adviser.
Abdul Qadeer Khan was sacked after the Nuclear Command Council reviewed a probe into the alleged illegal sale of nuclear technology to Iran and Libya. "
BBC NEWS | UK | 'Al-Qaeda threat' grounds flights: "British Airways and Air France have cancelled a number of US flights amid fears al-Qaeda may be targeting them. "
Christian Solidarity Worldwide - Latest News"While Burma’s largest armed ethnic resistance group, the Karen National Union (KNU), arrived in Rangoon last week to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with the ruling military junta, CSW received reports that an estimated 3,500 Karen and Karenni people have been newly displaced by the Burma Army.
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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Annan fears Palestinian collapse: "The UN Secretary-General has warned that the Palestinian Authority could collapse because of the stalemate in the Middle East peace process.
Kofi Annan was speaking after talks in Brussels with the leadership of the European Union. "
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Details of what they agreed were sparse as their task loomed even larger now the lethal virus has struck in China, the world's most populous country, the birthplace of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and home to a vast poultry industry.
But the World Health Organization said the one-day meeting in Bangkok, also attended by European Union and U.S. officials, was a good start. "
Prophecy Today's Web site: "Dr. Rowan Williams, the Anglican Church's Archbishop of Canterbury, is visiting the Middle East this week to promote peace in the region."
EUobserver: "After almost a year of waiting, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia now look likely to be offered the prospect of partial membership of the EU.
Foreign Ministers, meeting in Brussels today are set to reopen the debate on EU relations with the Southern Caucasus and look likely to tacitly agree to include the countries on the EU's 'Wider Europe' programme. "
Reformists in Iran Challenge Hard-Liners: "Iran's reformists yesterday challenged their hard-line rivals in a weeks-long standoff over eligibility of candidates for next month's elections. The Majlis, or Parliament, passed a 'triple-urgent' bill aimed at forcing the powerful Guardian Council to reinstate thousands of reformist candidates barred from the election."
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Syria denies receiving Iraq arms: "Syria has strongly denied allegations that it has been harbouring Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The charge that part of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme went to Syria before the war came from the ex-head of the US weapons inspection team. "
NASA's 'Opportunity' lands on Mars: "California: NASA's Opportunity rover successfully landed on Mars, arriving on the Red Planet exactly three weeks after its identical twin set down. "
Khaleej Times Online: "A.Q. Khan, credited with fathering Pakistan's nuclear bomb, is publicly hailed as a national hero. Born in 1936 in Bhopal, India, he was 10 years old when his family migrated by train to Pakistan during the bloody 1947 partition of the sub-continent."
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