World

  • Myanmar junta leader warns against disrupting 'democracy'
    Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, right, greets members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) during a cerebration to mark the 64th Union Day at its headquarters Saturday, February 12 in Yangon, Mya
    World / 12th February 2011
  • Egypt army backs Mubarak; protesters enraged
    CAIRO, February 11 (AP): Egypt's powerful military backed President Hosni Mubarak's plan to stay in office until September elections, enraging hundreds of thousands of protesters who deluged squares in at least
    World / 11th February 2011
  • Pak police: US man committed 'murder'
    In this January 28, 2011 file photo, Pakistani security officials escort Raymond Allen Davis, a U.S. consulate employee, center, to a local court in Lahore, Pakistan. Aides to Pakistan's president expressed con
    World / 11th February 2011
  • Nelson Mandela son-in-law won't be extradited to US
    Isaac Amuah arrives at court in Johannesburg, February 11 for an extradition hearing. Amuah, the son-in-law of former president Nelson Mandela, is accused of sexual assault in Connecticut.  (AP Photo) 
    World / 11th February 2011
  • Boy suicide bomber kills 31 in Pakistan
    Vehicles carrying coffins head to the Pakistan army training camp in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan on February 10. A 12-year-old boy suicide bomber in a school uniform attacked soldiers during morning exercise
    World / 10th February 2011
  • WikiLeaks feud escalates: defector accused of sabotage
    One of the founders of OpenLeaks, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, holds his book 'Inside WikiLeaks' after his arrival for a news conference in Berlin, Germany, February 10. (AP Photo) Berlin, February 10 (DPA): A f
    World / 10th February 2011
  • N Korea rules out further military talks with South
    South Korean delegate Army Col. Moon Sang-gyun, second from left, is questioned by reporters as he leaves for military meeting with North Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, February 8. The group of South Kor
    World / 10th February 2011
  • South Sudan minister shot dead in Juba: SPLA
    JUBA, February 9 (AFP): South Sudan’s minister of cooperatives and rural development Jimmy Lemi Milla and his bodyguard were shot dead in Juba on Wednesday, the southern army’s spokesman said, in wh
    World / 9th February 2011
  • Pakistan officials hopeful on held American spat
    ISLAMABAD , February 9 (AP): Aides to Pakistan's president expressed confidence Wednesday that Islamabad and Washington could amicably resolve a growing diplomatic crisis over the fate of a former U.S. Special
    World / 9th February 2011
  • Southern Sudan prepares to become a new country
    A southern Sudanese man watches a publicly televised broadcast of the formal announcement of referendum results in the southern capital of Juba , Monday, February 7. Referendum officials indicated that nearly 9
    World / 8th February 2011
  • Egypt unrest: Competing visions for the future
    LONDON, February 8 (BBC): There are competing visions on offer of what has been happening in Egypt, as this extraordinary political stalemate drags on.The people of the country, already shocked by the way polit
    World / 8th February 2011
  • WikiLeaks' Assange back in court
    LONDON, February 8 (AFP): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was facing a second day in a British court Tuesday fighting an attempt to extradite him to Sweden over allegations of rape and molestation.The 39-year-
    World / 8th February 2011
  • Muslim mob burns, ransacks churches in Indonesia
    A statue of Jesus Christ is left smashed on the floor at the church that was attacked by Muslim hardliners in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed
    World / 8th February 2011
  • Egypt govt talks with reformists about Mubarak
    Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters hang a horse’s saddle as a war trophy which was seized during violence earlier in the week when pro-Mubarak combatants, some on horses and camels, hurled concrete, metal b
    World / 6th February 2011
  • Fires and floods hammer Australia
    Perth, February 6 (AFP): Wildfires threatened homes and new flooding forced evacuations in embattled Australia, as officials warned that last week's monster cyclone would compound economic woes.Hot and gusty co
    World / 6th February 2011
  • Iran Opens Trial of three Americans on Spy Charges
    TEHRAN, February 6 (AP): An Iranian court began closed-door proceedings Sunday in the espionage trial of three Americans — two still in custody and one freed on bail — whose detention has been the s
    World / 6th February 2011
  • Nepal’s new PM Khanal sworn in
    KATHMANDU, February 6 (Agencies): Though a seven-month-old political vacuum ended on Sunday with Nepal's new Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal taking oath of office and secrecy, the swearing-in was marred by disp
    World / 6th February 2011
  • Thai and Cambodia troops clash again on disputed border
    BANGKOK, February 6 (Reuters): Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire on a disputed stretch of their border on Sunday, witnesses said, the third flare-up in three days in an ancient feud over territory surr
    World / 6th February 2011
  • Zardaris threaten to sue newspaper for $100m
    ISLAMABAD, February 6 (PTI): A US legal firm representing the Bhutto-Zardari family has threatened to file a lawsuit seeking over $100 million in damages if Pakistan's Jang media group does not apologise for a
    World / 6th February 2011
  • Egypt officials seek to ease Mubarak out
    Cairo, February 5 (NYT): President Hosni Mubarak appeared increasingly isolated on Saturday, with protests entering their 12th day and the Obama administration and some members of the Egyptian military and civi
    World / 5th February 2011
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