World

  • Anti-crisis protests shake up Spanish elections
    MADRID, May 18 (AFP): Protesters fuming over Spain's economic crisis and sky-high jobless rate camped in Madrid and across the country Wednesday to vent their anger ahead of weekend local elections.More than 1,
    World / 19th May 2011
  • Tanks shell Syrian town, West piles on pressure
    AMMAN, May 18 (Reuters): Tanks bombarded a Syrian border town for the fourth day on Wednesday in a military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad, under mounting Western pressure to stop
    World / 19th May 2011
  • ‘Taliban using child bombers’
    KABUL, May 15 (AP): The orders from their religious teacher were clear: Go to Afghanistan, strap on a suicide vest and kill foreign forces. With that, 9-year-old Ghulam Farooq left his home in Pakistan with thr
    World / 15th May 2011
  • U.S. should not have violated Pakistan’s sovereignty: Gilani
    Islamabad, May 8 (PTI): Amid a diplomatic row between Pakistan and the U.S. over the secret operation that killed al— Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said Washington sh
    World / 8th May 2011
  • Singapore’s ruling party triumphs again
    SINGAPORE, May 8 (Agencies): Singapore’s long-governing People’s Action Party (PAP) won an absolute parliamentary majority in the early hours of Sunday following Saturday’s general election.Pr
    World / 8th May 2011
  • ‘Osama wasn’t shot dead, but blew himself up to avoid capture by US forces’
    Lahore, May 8(ANI): Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden was not shot dead by US Special Forces (SEALs) in 'Operation Geronimo', but blew himself up to avoid capture soon after they launched the raid at his Abbotabad
    World / 8th May 2011
  • Ten dead in Egypt clash, premier calls talks
    Egyptians gather next to a building belonging to Christians that was set on fire  during clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo on Sunday, May 8. (AP Photo) CAIRO,
    World / 8th May 2011
  • ASEAN summit fails to resolve Thai-Cambodia conflict
    JAKARTA, May 8 (Reuters): Southeast Asian leaders failed to achieve any breakthrough Sunday to end deadly border skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia that overshadowed a regional summit in Jakarta supposed
    World / 8th May 2011
  • US to tap Gadhafi billions to aid Libya rebels
    Mahmoud Jibril, executive bureau chairman of the transitional national council in Libya meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome on  Thursday, May 5,
    World / 5th May 2011
  • ‘Osama killed according to war laws’
    Pakistanis walk by the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Thursday, May 5. The residents of Abbottabad were still confused and suspicious about the kil
    World / 5th May 2011
  • Many Native Indians irked Geronimo code name
    This 1887 file photo, provided by the National Archives shows the famed Indian warrior Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache, posing with a rifle. The leader of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe is looking for a formal apolog
    World / 5th May 2011
  • Bin Laden was unarmed when US Navy SEALs stormed room
    People pass newspapers front pages with the report of Osama bin Laden’s death, at a newsstand in Berlin on Tuesday, May 3. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that ki
    World / 4th May 2011
  • 5 dead, 9 missing in coal mine explosion
    Family members of trapped miners embrace as they wait outside of a coal mine in San Juan de Sabinas in the Mexican state of Coahuila on Tuesday, May 3. (AP Photo) SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico, May 4 (AP): M
    World / 4th May 2011
  • Fatah, Hamas proclaim landmark reconciliation pact
    Palestinians wave the Palestinian and Egyptian flags as they take part in a rally celebrating the signing of a reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, M
    World / 4th May 2011
  • Deadline for Libyan rebels to surrender expires
    Misrata, May 4 (PTI): A deadline for Libyan rebels defending the besieged city of Misrata to lay down their arms expired Wednesday, but a top minister said he hoped it would be extended after scores surrendered
    World / 4th May 2011
  • Taliban vows to avenge Osama’s death; Asif Ali Zardari on hit-list
    ISLAMABAD, May 3 (PTI): The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday warned that they would target Pakistan and the US to avenge the killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden by US special forces in a raid near the garriso
    World / 3rd May 2011
  • Bin Laden took a path of fanaticism and terror
    Osama bin Laden was born into one of Saudi Arabia's most prosperous families, but he left home in search of revolution, found a path of fanaticism, inspired a murderous organization that terrorized the West, an
    World / 2nd May 2011
  • Libya’s Gadhafi presses offensive after son killed
    TRIPOLI, May 2 (Reuters): Moammar Gadhafi pressed an offensive against rebel forces, and his supporters burned Western embassies after the Libyan leader survived a NATO airstrike that officials said killed his
    World / 2nd May 2011
  • Death toll from US tornadoes rises to 350
    James Nicholas surveys the damage in Hackleburg, Ala., on Friday, April 29 following a tornado touchdown on Wednesday afternoon that destroyed much of the small community and caused 27 deaths. (AP Photo) T
    World / 30th April 2011
  • NATO dismisses Gaddafi’s offer of truce & talks
    Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi speaks during a live speech in this still image taken from video on Saturday, April 30. (Reuters Photo) BRUSSELS, April 30 (Reuters): NATO dismissed an offer from Muammar Gadd
    World / 30th April 2011
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