Thailand’s revered Queen Sirikit attended the funeral on Monday of an anti-government protester killed in clashes with police a week ago, the strongest sign yet of royal backing for the five-month-old street movement.Thousands of members of the staunchly royalist People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) chanted “Long Live Her Majesty” as her motorcade arrived at the […]
A pipe bomb exploded Thursday outside the home of a prominent Israeli scholar and outspoken critic of Jewish West Bank settlements, lightly wounding him in what police suspect was an attack by Jewish extremists.
Investigators found posters in Professor Zeev Sternhell’s neighborhood offering a $320,000 prize to anyone who kills a member of Peace Now, a […]
Aspiring to become the first woman Premier of Israel in over three decades, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Tuesday stepped up efforts to cobble up a national unity government by roping in major parties after President Shimon Peres asked her to form a coalition.
The Labour party leadership showed willingness to join 50-year-old Livni’s coalition with […]
At least 11 drug traffickers were killed Sunday in an operation carried out by the army in Colombia’s southwestern province of Cauca, Spain’s EFE news agency reported.The incident took place when soldiers opened fire after members of a drug trafficking gang attacked them in rural Argelia, some 700 km southwest of Bogota, the army said […]
Disgraced pacer Mohammad Asif`s fate will be decided by the new Pakistan Cricket Board chairman after considering the recommendations made by the fact-finding committee.
With Ashraf resigning immediately after former President Pervez Musharraf made his exit earlier this month, the sports ministry is now planning to either appoint an ad-hoc committee to run cricket affairs or […]
Disgraced pacer Mohammad Asif`s fate will be decided by the new Pakistan Cricket Board chairman after considering the recommendations made by the fact-finding committee.
With Ashraf resigning immediately after former President Pervez Musharraf made his exit earlier this month, the sports ministry is now planning to either appoint an ad-hoc committee to run cricket affairs or […]
Maher al-Gohari converted to Christianity 30 years ago, but the Muslim-born Egyptian only recently took the decision to make his conversion public.
The 56-year-old former policeman has put applied to the Higher Administrative Court to have his religion changed from “Muslim” to “Christian” on his official ID card.
In Egypt, citizens are required to carry their personal […]
Iran’s top leader strongly backed the nation’s embattled president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, praising him for “standing up” to the West and urging him to plan for a second four-year term, state media reported Sunday.
The comments by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei represent unusually glowing praise of the president, who upon his election in 2005 sparked a […]
A U.S. Navy warship will head through the Bosphorus on Friday taking relief supplies to Georgia, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy in Europe said.
The destroyer McFaul is expected to arrive in Georgia via the Black Sea in about two days and will be followed by two other U.S. ships, officials […]
Nepal’s Prime Minister Prachanda is set to visit Beijing this week in a sharp departure from tradition where India has been the first port of call for top Nepalese leaders after assuming office.
Prachanda, who was today sworn-in as the first Prime Minister of the post-monarchy Nepal, had earlier expressed his desire to implement a policy […]