World

  • Powers plot ‘post-Gadhafi’ future as rebels eye cash
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, speaks with  Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, left, and United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash, right,
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Insurgents shoot dead nine wedding guests
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan, June 9  (Reuters): Insurgents shot dead nine wedding guests and wounded five more in Afghanistan's turbulent east, local officials said on Thursday, the latest attack on revelers wh
    World / 9th June 2011
  • China says no expiry date on Communist Party rule
    BEIJING, June 9 (Reuters): China's Communist Party sees no reason why it cannot stay in power indefinitely, having made the nation into the envy of the world with its economic success, one of the Party's top of
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Fighting turns southern Yemen town into “hell”
    ADEN/JEDDAH, June 9 (Reuters): Bodies lay in the streets of a southern Yemeni town Wednesday as government forces battled Islamist militants, a local official said, underscoring the gravity of Yemen's multiple
    World / 9th June 2011
  • Female war prisoners should be sex slaves for men: Politician
    London, June 9 (Agencies): A woman politician from Kuwait has sparked anger and disbelief by calling for legalization of sex slaves, saying it would protect men from adultery, and suggesting that female prisone
    World / 9th June 2011
  • ‘UK varsities breeding ground for terrorism’
    London, June 7 (Agencies): British Home Secretary Theresa May has criticised universities for their alleged “complacency” in tackling radicalisation and Islamic extremism on campus. In an interview
    World / 7th June 2011
  • Battles rage in al Qaeda-held Yemen town, 25 dead
    SANAA/ADEN, June 7 (Reuters): Fighting flared on Tuesday in a southern Yemen city seized by Islamist militants, killing at least 25 people, a local official said, after Washington urged President Ali Abdullah S
    World / 7th June 2011
  • New Zealand mourns death of Shrek the famously shaggy sheep
    Wellington, June 7 (AP): New Zealanders were mourning the loss of the country’s most famous sheep on Tuesday, a shaggy national icon named Shrek who was renowned for avoiding being shorn for years.Shrek c
    World / 7th June 2011
  • Russian envoy meets Libya rebels, Tripoli bombed
    Benghazi, June 7 (AFP): President Dmitry Medvedev's envoy Mikhail Marglov was Tuesday meeting with Libyan rebel leaders in the first trip by a top Russian official to their stronghold, as NATO warplanes pounded
    World / 7th June 2011
  • UN could split Afghan Taliban, al-Qaida black list
    KABUL, June 7 (AP): The United Nations said Tuesday it is considering creating separate terrorism blacklists for al-Qaida and the Taliban, a political gesture that could spur possible Afghan peace talks.Peter W
    World / 7th June 2011
  • Attack kills 120 Syrian forces; crackdown feared
    Beirut, June 7 (AP): Armed men have killed 120 Syrian security forces and torched government buildings in a northern region where troops have unleashed deadly assaults on protesters for days, Syria said. The go
    World / 7th June 2011
  • McCain warns Myanmar risks Arab-style uprising
    YANGON, June 3 (AFP): US Senator John McCain warned that Myanmar could face a Middle East-style revolution if the new army-backed government fails to implement democratic reform and improve human rights. "
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • Surviving the killing fields in Bosnia
    In this photo taken Thursday, June 2, 2011, Bosnian Muslim Mevludin Oric says a prayer in front of the grave of his brother Sejdalija Oric at the Potocari memorial center near Srebrenica. Oric, a Bosnian Muslim
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • China drought raises questions about climate change
    LAKE HONGHU, June 3 (Reuters): China's drought along its biggest river, the Yangtze, is for some scientists a demonstration of how global warming could increasingly disrupt the complex dance of air flows, rains
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • Assisted suicide advocate Kevorkian dies at age 83
    DETROIT, June 3 (AP): Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who captured the world's attention as he helped dozens of ailing people commit suicide, igniting intense debate and ending up in prison for murder,
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • ‘5 killed, 1 wounded in Arizona shooting spree’
    YUMA, Arizona, June 3 (AP): A 73-year-old man’s shooting rampage in towns near the Arizona border left six people dead Thursday, including the suspect and the attorney who represented his ex-wife in their
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • Syrian govt troops pound central town; at least 43 die
    Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad demonstrate outside a hotel where the opponents of the Syrian regime gathered on Turkey’s Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, for a conference aimed at overc
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • US senator McCain meets Suu Kyi
    YANGON, June 2 (AFP): US Senator John McCain pledged to support efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar in talks Thursday with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to assess the new political landsca
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • ‘Pak won’t take dictation from anyone on Waziristan ops’
    Islamabad, June 2 (Agencies): Pakistan government will “think whether there is any need” for a military operation in North Waziristan and not take dictation from anyone on launching a campaign again
    World / 3rd June 2011
  • Japanese PM survives no-confidence motion
    Tokyo, June 2 (AP): Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no—confidence motion on Thursday over his response to Japan’s massive tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis, but said he is willing to resign onc
    World / 3rd June 2011
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