Month: January 2011

Taleban gunmen have begun assassinating their own rank and file in a desperate bid to stop a remote mountain valley sliding from their grasp, as well as bringing in new commanders to oversee their fightback […] […]

WASHINGTON — The State Department is prepared to evacuate thousands of U.S. citizens from Egypt on chartered planes but is relying largely on friends and families in the U.S. to relay that information to stranded […] […]

CAIRO – Egypt’s most prominent reform advocate called for President Hosni Mubarak to resign, while the US appealed for an orderly transition to lasting democracy in Egypt, even as escalating violence in the American ally […] […]

TAMPA – A woman who authorities say killed her teenage daughter and son because she was fed up with them talking back and being mouthy did not appear in court yesterday because she was being […] […]

A 63-YEAR-OLD Southern California man who had explosives in his vehicle has been arrested outside one of the largest mosques in the US, authorities say. Police in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn said Roger Stockham […] […]

EMBATTLED Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has ordered his new prime minister to talk with the opposition about political reforms and fight corruption. Mubarak, who sacked his cabinet on Friday after a nationwide revolt, also said […] […]

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange disguised himself as an old woman in order to evade US intelligence officers who he believed were following him, extracts from a new biography reveal. Further passages from WikiLeaks: Inside Julian […] […]

Ottawa announced Sunday it would send chartered jets to Cairo to evacuate Canadians from the seething Egyptian capital where anti-government protests have killed 97 and injured thousands. “The situation is deteriorating. The situation is not […] […]