
Leipzig: Germany worked hard for a 2-0 win over Israel in a Euro 2012 warm-up match on Thursday with Mario Gomez and Andre Schuerrle on target in their final test before next month's tournament. The three-time European champions, among the title favourites, dominated with a performance that was a marked improvement on their 5-3 defeat by Switzerland on Saturday. However, they wasted close to a dozen clear chances on a...

09:16 AM, Jun 01, 2012

Graz, Austria: A last-minute goal by David Lafata helped the Czech Republic beat Israel 2-1 on Saturday in preparation for next month's European Championship. It was the third international goal in 17 appearances for Lafata, who came on as a substitute after 65 minutes for Milan Petrzela. Striker Milan Baros scored from the penalty spot after 17 minutes to give the Czechs an early lead, then Itay Shechter levelled in...

12:22 PM, May 27, 2012

London: According to a poll conducted for BBC World Service, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel are the most negatively rated countries in the world. About 24,090 people worldwide participated in the survey. Citizens from 22 countries were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone between December 6, 2011 and February 17, 2012. Polling was conducted by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its research partners in each country, together with the...

11:13 AM, May 19, 2012

Washington: US plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the US ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms. Like Israel, the United States has said it considers military force a last resort to prevent Iran using its uranium enrichment to make a bomb. Iran insists its nuclear...

01:07 PM, May 17, 2012

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday opposed a plea for allowing inspection by the insurer of the Israeli diplomat's car, subjected to the February 13 bombing, saying the same cannot be allowed as the case has international ramifications. The police told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav that the release of the vehicle or its survey for assessment of the damage caused to it to claim insurance cannot be allowed....

07:31 PM, Apr 23, 2012

New Delhi: Trinitrotoluene (TNT), an explosive material, was used in the February 13 bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car in the high-security area of the capital, the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL) said in its report. CFSL experts handed over the report recently to the Delhi Police giving its opinion about the explosive material used in the bombing of the diplomatic vehicle of Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua, who was seriously...

02:47 PM, Apr 22, 2012

New Delhi: The judicial custody of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, who was arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car, ends on Saturday. Kazmi on March 30 moved a Delhi court for bail. Court sources said Kazmi had sought bail on the ground that the police had told the court earlier, at the time he was sent to the judicial...

06:48 AM, Apr 21, 2012

Israel has declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deepening a spat with the Nobel-winning author over a poem that deeply criticises the Jewish state and suggests it is as much a danger as Iran. The dispute with Grass, who only late in life admitted to a Nazi past, has drawn new attention to strains in Germany's complicated relationship with the Jewish state - and also focused unwelcome light on Israel's...

03:43 PM, Apr 09, 2012

New Delhi: India has sent an arrest warrant for Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, arrested in connection with the botched-up bombing in Bangkok, to Malaysia requesting for his production before court to unravel the conspiracy behind the attack on an Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi on February 13. Malaysian authorities through diplomatic channels were handed over the warrant with a plea that a proper extradition request would be sent after completion of...

06:34 PM, Apr 05, 2012

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Syed Mohammad Kazmi, accused in the Israeli Embassy car blast case, saying that there was "no substance" in the arguments of the defence counsel. Kazmi will continue to be in judicial remand. The journalist was arrested last month in connection with the February 13 terror attack. Kazmi, 50, who claimed to have been writing for Iranian publications, was...

04:52 PM, Apr 03, 2012

New Delhi: Accused Syed Mohammad Kazmi's bail plea is likely to be heard on Tuesday in the Israeli embassy car bombing case. The journalist was arrested last month in connection with the February 13 terror attack. Kazmi, 50, who claimed to have been writing for Iranian publications, was arrested on March 7 following investigations into the incident where a magnetic bomb was stuck on an Israeli embassy vehicle in New...

09:51 AM, Apr 03, 2012

New Delhi: Amid the controversy surrounding the Army Chief Gen VK Singh, the Defence Ministry has cut short duration of his stay and size of the delegation for a visit to Nepal scheduled this week. Gen Singh is scheduled to take part in a regional two-day disaster management and counter terrorism seminar being held in Kathmandu from April 4 and chaired by the Nepalese Army Chief. Last month also, the...

06:58 PM, Apr 01, 2012

Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday New Delhi was in touch with Iran in order to gain access to some suspects in the Israel Embassy blast case. ...

01:43 PM, Mar 31, 2012

New Delhi: Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car, resulting in critical injuries to her, on Friday moved a Delhi court for bail. Kazmi's bail plea, filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, is to come up for hearing on Saturday. Court sources said Kazmi has sought bail on the ground that...

07:15 PM, Mar 30, 2012

New Delhi: It is a task that the elite special unit of the Delhi Police, engaged in countering terrorism, would have never thought of handling during the course of its sensitive duties. The police is looking for a pimp and two to three call girls who were allegedly engaged by Houshand Afshar Irani during his two visits to the national capital this year and in 2011, officials privy to the...

03:47 PM, Mar 25, 2012