General News Archive - August 08, 2005
By George Nishiyama TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will call a snap election, public broadcaster NHK said on Monday after parliament's upper house rejected bills to privatize the postal system -- the core of his reform agenda.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A narrow majority of Israelis support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip next week despite the 11th-hour resignation of his top government rival, a newspaper poll found on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has developed war plans to counter terrorist attacks in the United States in shift from the Pentagon's reluctance to engage in domestic operations, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Foreign troops must aim to withdraw from Iraq by the end of next year to remove one of the biggest focal points for militant groups, former Australian defense force chief General Peter Cosgrove said.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA delayed the return of the space shuttle Discovery to Earth on Monday due to weather worries at the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle had been due to land at 4:47 a.m.
By George Nishiyama and Masayuki Kitano TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will call an election for Sept. 11, his coalition partner said on Monday after parliament's upper house rejected bills to privatize the postal system -- the core of Koizumi's reforms.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A narrow majority of Israelis support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip next week despite the 11th-hour resignation of his top government rival, a newspaper poll found on Monday.
By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel pressed ahead on Monday with preparations for its Gaza pullout, signaling business as usual despite Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation in protest at the plan. "We are back to our routine ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Cloudy skies on Monday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida forced NASA to postpone the return to Earth of space shuttle Discovery, prolonging for at least a day the first shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster in 2003. The U.S.
