2012-01-01
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Bodhgaya, India: - The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, arrived in Bodhgaya amid tight security Saturday, December...
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2012-01-01
HONOLULU - President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution...
2012-01-01
Mogadishu, Somalia -- Ethiopian troops poured into a strategic town in central Somalia on Saturday, seizing it from the al-Shabab militant group and opening a new axis of conflict in the country. The...
2012-01-01
WASHINGTON: There was no brutal crackdown by a tyrant, no runaway tanks that mowed down demonstrators, no trigger-happy police firing, and no self-immolation by any protestor. Even flash mobs require...
2011-12-31
Myanmar has set April 1 as the date for parliamentary by-elections, which will see pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party return to mainstream politics for the first time in two decades. Suu...
2011-12-31
Its ambitions reflect those of the US more than 40 decades ago, and have similar goals. Just as the US space programme came at a time of major economic expansion, so China's drive comes as it grows in...
2011-12-30
Jamaica's opposition capitalized on discontent over the economy to return to power Thursday, as voters gave the country's first female leader a second chance to govern the island. Supporters of former...
2011-12-30
Two international aid workers have been shot and killed in the Somali capital, a police and medical officials said. The workers were employees of the aid group Doctors Without Borders (known by its...
2011-12-29
December 29, 2011 -- Updated 1834 GMT (0234 HKT) The U.S. plans to sell nearly $30 billion worth of F-15 jets to Saudi Arabia. Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. government has signed an agreement with...
2011-12-29
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has called for a 'united response' to the eurozone debt crisis, as he announced plans to get Italy out of recession. He added that despite the two recent successful...
2011-12-29
WASHINGTON — Four-star general-turned-CIA director David Petraeus almost resigned as Afghanistan war commander over President Barack Obama's decision to quickly draw down surge forces, according...
2011-12-29
CAIRO - Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt ousted in the revolution last February, was wheeled back into a courtroom here on a hospital gurney on Wednesday to resume his trial amid reports...
2011-12-29
Mr Justice Treacy told the jury at the Old Bailey they had to ignore the "enormous publicity" over the years about the murder. Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, are accused of being...
2011-12-28
HAVANA - Cuba appeared to be making quick progress in meeting a pledge to free 2,900 pardoned prisoners, most of them convicted of minor crimes, even as a top human rights official on the island...
2011-12-28
The handing on of power from an old dictator to a new one can be a moment of great tension, especially if the new one is under 30 and has no political or administrative experience of any kind. Hence...
2011-12-28
ARGENTINA'S President Cristina Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery on January 4, her spokesman says. Ms Kirchner, who was sworn in for a second four-year term...
2011-12-28
ABUJA - Northern Nigerian Christians said yesterday they feared that a spate of Christmas Day bombings by Islamist militants that killed more than two dozen people could lead to a religious war in...
2011-12-27
TEHRAN - Iran threatened on Tuesday to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz if foreign sanctions were imposed on its crude exports over its nuclear ambitions, a move that could trigger...
2011-12-27
Before the first bomb falls disinformation specialists prepare the ground. Leading media outlets, foreign policy journals and a plethora of think tanks funded by elite foundations, energy and weapons'...
2011-12-27
Ultra-orthodox Jews have clashed with police in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem. One police officer was slightly hurt and a number of Orthodox Jews detained, say reports. The town has...
2011-12-27
Mexico City - The Mexican defence ministry on Monday paraded before the media a man suspected of being a senior aide to the country's most wanted drug trafficker, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman,...
2011-12-26
During the last year of revolutionary protests across the Arab world, one of the things that most surprised me was how little Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution he helped to lead, was mentioned by...
2011-12-26
December 26, 2011 -- Updated 0644 GMT (1444 HKT) A boy holds a placard on a street in Cagayan de Oro on December 24, 2011. (CNN) -- The death toll from the tropical storm that lashed the southern...
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