The Independent Senior officials admitted yesterday that Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov had the UK "over a barrel", after his country emerged as the favoured route home when British forces are...
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BBC News With Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari making a rare visit to India, the BBC's Delhi correspondent Andrew North looks at the fraught state of relations between the rival neighbours. Last time...
Yahoo Daily News UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Syria's government Friday for continuing to kill innocent civilians despite its commitment to pull all soldiers and heavy...
US News By ZARAR KHAN, Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A security official says an avalanche has buried 130 Pakistani soldiers in a Himalayan region close to India. The incident happened early...
- BBC News: Pope Benedict warns mankind 'in darkness'
- The Independent: Patrick Cockburn: Galloway won for some very good reasons
- Al Jazeera: Polls show British PM Cameron losing support
- Gulf News: Euro falls most in 11 months against yen
- Gulf News: Al Shabab on backfoot
- NZ Herald: Rhinos killed for Asian cure-all
The State CAIRO - A former strongman of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's regime announced Friday that he will enter Egypt's presidential race after supporters marched and pleaded for him to run. Omar Suleiman's entry reversed an earlier decision and was likely...
CounterPunch The PR disasters over the last three months — including pictures of American troops urinating on Afghan corpses, the burning of Qurans, and the massacre of Afghan civilians, including women and children, by at least one deranged American soldier —...
Huffington Post The cost of the Department of Defense's (DoD) major acquisition programs grew by $74.4 billion in the past year and now totals more than $1.58 trillion, according to a recent . And, this $74.4 billion is just a fraction of the overall cost growth in...
The New York Times The United States economy added a relatively weak 120,000 jobs in March, compared with 240,000 in February, and the unemployment rate dipped to 8.2 percent from 8.3 percent, the Labor Department said on Friday. Jobs Private Rate Source: Bureau of...
The New York Times MOSCOW — Russia lashed out on Friday over the sentencing of a convicted Russian arms trafficker to 25 years in prison, calling the decision by a New York court “baseless and biased” and warning that it could hamper relations between...
Novosti Russia welcomes the UN Security Council’s statement expressing support for the UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s demand for Damascus to stop military offensives and begin a troop pullout from cities and towns by April 10, the Russian...
The Daily Telegraph Thousands gather to watch Filipino devotees in Pampanga province re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, using real nails driven through their hands and feet. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9190345...
The Times of India SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet LILONGWE: Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, medical and government sources said on Friday. The 78-year-old was rushed to a Lilongwe hospital on Thursday...
Al Jazeera Defence lawyers at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have called on Libya to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying that he has been physically attacked and kept in isolation. Libyan...