As international pressure mounts on PresidentMahinda Rajapaksa to launch a credible process to investigate war crimes alleged to have taken place during the last stages of the war, the people - largely the Sinhalese who form 75 percent of the country's population - rally round...
By MissyRyan KABUL (Reuters) - The Obama administration will unveil on Monday a package of aid initiatives it hopes will help Afghanistan, still one of the world's poorest countries after a dozen years of massive international aid efforts, shield itself from the departure of foreign troops and...
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos expressed deep disappointment last night after an aid convoy came under fire in a besieged rebel district of the Syrian city Homs, though she vowed to keep pushing to deliver humanitarian assistance to Syria’s neediest. “I...
KABUL (AP): The number of children killed and wounded in Afghanistan's war jumped by 34 per cent last year as the Taliban stepped up attacks across the country and continued to lay thousands of roadside bombs, the United Nations said yesterday. Overall civilian casualties were up by 14 per cent,...
On a dusty road in the middle of nowhere, Afghanistan, an IED explodes under a U.S. Humvee. It’s an ambush: rocket-propelled grenades, rifle and machine-gun fire rain down from the nearby hills. U.S. troops fight off the attack, but several are wounded. Medics tie tourniquets; buddies apply bandages...
Two trucks carrying food and medical supplies into rebel-held neighbourhoods in the central Syrian city of Homs turned back under heavy fire, leaving four paramedics wounded as a ceasefire faltered. Talal Barrazi, the governor of Homs province, told the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV the attack...
Yokohama: The snowfall was the heaviest in the capital for 45 years Photo: AP Tokyo: The heaviest snow in decades in Tokyo and other areas of Japan has left at least five dead and 600 injured across the country. As much as 27 centimetres of snow was recorded in Tokyo by late Saturday, the...
