The US sees India as a key Asian ally and trading partner
US President George W Bush is shortly due to begin talks in Delhi on his first visit to India, which could see a nuclear power deal clinched.
"It's an honour to be here. I've never been to India before," he said in brief comments after being ceremonially welcomed at the presidential palace.
His arrival on Wednesday prompted an anti-war rally in Delhi attended by about 100,000 people, mainly Muslims.
But he will be welcomed by many other Indians, a BBC correspondent notes.
Mr Bush inspected a ceremonial guard of honour at the imposing colonial-era presidential palace in the heart of Delhi.
He is following that by a wreath-laying at Raj Ghat, the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi before his talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House.
“ Our relationship with India is broader than our discussions about energy - ours is a strategic relationship ”
George W Bush
Both leaders hope they can finalise a deal to provide India with civilian nuclear technology in return for Delhi opening some of its nuclear facilities to international inspection.
Greater economic links will also be discussed and delegations of Indian and US business leaders will meet.
The BBC's Jonathan Beale who is travelling with President Bush says the visit shows a growing bond between the two countries' leaders.
Angry protests
The streets surrounding Mr Bush's hotel have been sealed off and hundreds of policemen and US secret service agents are in position around it.
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The BBC's Sanjeev Srivastava notes that many protests are planned against the US leader, who arrived from Afghanistan where thousands of American troops are still active in the "war against terror".
Those who turned out in Delhi on Wednesday held up black flags and placards reading "Bush, go home".
"We are against Bush because he is the enemy of Islam," one protester, Shamsuddin Malik, told the BBC.
India's Muslim minority is one of the biggest Islamic communities in the world.
In Calcutta, tens of thousands of supporters of left-wing parties marched through the city centre to call on India not to become a "US lackey".
Nuclear deal
The nuclear deal was agreed to in principle during a visit by the Indian prime minister to Washington last year.
But it has been held up by differences over plans to separate India's civilian and military nuclear programmes and open its civilian nuclear facilities to international inspectors.
Speaking to reporters in Afghanistan, Mr Bush stressed that partnership with India was more important than any one deal.
"Our relationship with India is broader than our discussions about energy - ours is a strategic relationship," he said.
During his trip, he will also visit the southern city of Hyderabad, one of India's high-technology hubs.
After India, he will head to Pakistan where President Pervez Musharraf says he hopes the US leader will be able to play a role in resolving the long-running Kashmir dispute with India.
“Mr Bolton says Iran is determined to acquire nuclear weapons”
A senior US official has called for continued international pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear programme.
UN Ambassador John Bolton said there was a sense of urgency about Tehran's defiance of the world community
Trois attentats-suicides dans une mosquée chiite de Bagdad font près de 79 morts
LEMONDE.FR | 07.04.06 | 15h19?????Mis à jour le 07.04.06 | 20h56
・・Trois kamikazes se sont fait exploser, vendredi 7 avril, à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la mosquée chiite Bouratha de Bagdad, à la sortie de la prière. Ces attentats-suicides ont fait au moins 79 morts et 164 blessés selon un bilan fourni par le ministère de la santé. "Les fidèles venaient de quitter la mosquée Bouratha. Ils marchaient dans un couloir fortifié censé les protéger lorsque trois kamikazes se sont fait exploser au milieu de la foule", a indiqué le ministère. Cette mosquée du nord de Bagdad appartient au Conseil suprême pour la révolution islamique en Irak (CSRII), le parti le plus puissant de l'alliance chiite, qui domine le gouvernement irakien. Un des leaders de ce parti, Cheikh Jalal Eddine Al-Saghir, y a dirigé la prière collective.
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L'arm israienne multiplie les incursions??la frontie libanaise
LEMONDE.FR | 22.07.06 | 18h20????Mis??jour le 22.07.06 | 18h20
Les troupes israiennes ont affront samedi 22 juillet, des activistes du Hezbollah au Liban sud,??un kilomre environ de la frontie. Des soldats appuy par une dizaine de chars et de vicules blind ont notamment men des opations dans le village de Maroun al Ras, th蛯tre d'intenses combats ces derniers jours, o ils ont dit avoir douvert des bunkers et des ds d'armes du Hezbollah ainsi que des sites de tir de roquettes.
"C'est un endroit qui sert de bastion au Hezbollah,??partir duquel des hommes du Hezbollah nous attaquent", a dit le capitaine Jacob Dallal, porte-parole de Tsahal. "Cela s'inscrit dans nos efforts men spifiquement le long de la zone frontalie pour druire tous les uipements et infrastructures du Hezbollah", a-t-il dit en soulignant qu'il ne s'agissait pas d'un prude??une invasion du Liban??grande helle. "Cela doit re strictement interpr comme une incursion limit visant??suriser le terrain", a-t-il ajout
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・・Avant l'application de la trêve, l'armée israélienne intensifie ses opérations militaires au Liban
La cessation des hostilités devrait avoir lieu lundi matin à 7 heures, heure de Paris. Avant la trêve, Tsahal a accentué son offensive dans le sud du Liban. Dix-sept civils ont été tués dimanche. Les combats au sol entre Tsahal et le Hezbollah se poursuivent. Au moins cinq militaires israéliens ont été tués.
"Out of the north calamity shall break forth" - Jeremiah 1:14
O my soul, my soul!
I am pained in my very heart!
My heart makes a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war. (Jeremiah 4:19)
Terrible destruction is set to come upon Israel. Syria plans a surprise attack, emboldened by the success of the Hezbollah fighters against Israel. Bashar el-Assad openly calls for the destruction of Israel and puts his army on the highest alert possible. Syrian pilots sit in their jets on their runways, ready to take off. Nearly all sections of the Syrian population side emotionally with Hezbollah, calling for the re-entry of Syrian troops into Lebanon to join their fight against Israel.
The Pope's comments came on a visit to Germany
A statement from the Vatican has failed to quell criticism of Pope Benedict XVI from Muslim leaders, after he made a speech about the concept of holy war.
Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.
The head of the Muslim Brotherhood said the Pope's remarks "aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world".
The Vatican said the Pope had not intended to offend Muslims.
"It is clear that the Holy Father's intention is to cultivate a position of respect and dialogue towards other religions and cultures, and that clearly includes Islam," said chief Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi in a statement.
But in spite of the statement, the pontiff returned to Rome to face a barrage of criticism from the Muslim world over the remarks, reports the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
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Bush annonce la dission de Rumsfeld et assume sa part de "responsabilit dans la daite
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Prenant acte de la victoire docrate aux ections parlementaires du mardi 7 novembre, le prident Bush a annonc mercredi, la dission de son secraire??la dense, Donald Rusmfeld. "Avec Donald Rumsfeld, nous sommes tomb d'accord qu'un nouveau secraire [ la dense] ait nessaire", a indiqu M. Bush. Aux commandes du Pentagone depuis 2001, M. Rumsfeld avait fini par incarner la guerre en Irak lanc en 2003 et sa dission avait??rlam par l'opposition docrate, voire par plusieurs candidats rublicains en campagne.
Photos confirm US raid child deaths
Local officials said six children were among the
dead in the US air strike
Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage that confirms children were among the victims of a US air raid northwest of Baghdad. Local officials said that the bodies of 17 civilians, including six children and eight women, had been pulled from the debris of two houses in al-Ishaqi.
The US military had issued a statement on Friday saying that two women were among 20 suspected "al Qaeda terrorists" killed in the operation.
Al Jazeera's footage showed the bodies of men, women and children wrapped in blankets after they had been pulled from the rubble.
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Les forces de surit palestiniennes, sur le toit de l'aoport de Gaza, le 19 ao 2005. Le 3 janvier 2007, les ressortissants occidentaux, europns et amicains ont??somm de quitter Gaza en raison de risques ev d'enlements. Un photographe de l'AFP a??enlev le 1er janvier 2007??Gaza par quatre hommes arm en bas de l'immeuble o se trouve le bureau de l'agence.
Japan gaffe minister 'must quit'
Yanagisawa: 'Realises he has offended women and men'
Opposition parties in Japan are pressing Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa to step down for calling women "birth-giving machines".
The Democratic Party and two smaller parties are threatening to boycott budget hearings in parliament if Mr Yanagisawa, 71, does not quit.
The Democratic Party called the remarks inexcusable and said they violated women's human rights.
Mr Yanagisawa has apologised for his comments, which he made at the weekend.
The gaffe has caused embarrassment to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose popularity is slipping and who has already had one minister resign over political funding.
Mr Abe has rebuked the health minister for his remarks, but has dismissed calls for his resignation.
Tackling birth rate
Mr Yanagisawa had told a local political meeting "Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head."
Japanese children are fewer and further between
On Monday he told parliament he would "make every effort in the Abe government to work out measures to solve the problem of the low birth-rate."
Prime Minister Abe has pledged to bring in policies that will tackle the falling birth rate.
Japan has the world's highest ratio of elderly to young people.
The trend raises serious concerns about the country's future economic growth and how it can fund its pensions.
It also has forced Japan to question its attitude to immigration.
・・:20 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son, 7:21 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock. 7:22 Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. 7:23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house. 7:24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah. 7:25 Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, 7:26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 7:27 Nun his son, Joshua his son. 7:28 Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns; 7:29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel. 7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
・・エフライムの娘はSheerah、シェラ。
7:24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
・・アシェルの娘がSerah 、セラ、ですね。
7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
京セラの川村誠社長は最近、時期をみてセラミック分野でのＭ＆Ａ（合併・買収）に乗り出す可能性を示唆している。手っ取り早くもうけたい向きはほかを物色したほうがいいかもしれない。だが、京セラは中期的に有望な資産を保有し、困難を乗り切るだけの豊富な資金もある。しかも株価は割安だ。(Reprinted by permission of Barron's, (C)2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.)
