Month: February 2011

ISLAMABAD—The United States may scrap upcoming talks with Pakistan about the war in Afghanistan to further pressure Islamabad to free an American who shot dead two Pakistanis, U.S. officials said. Washington insists the detained American […] […]

EL PASO, Texas—Three officials from Cuba are expected to testify in the U.S. trial of a former CIA operative and anti-communist militant accused of lying during immigration hearings in Texas—a rare example of cooperation between […] […]

HUNDREDS of Islamic hardliners have stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming Islam. Antonius Richmond […] […]

Iran has blocked journalists and international observers from the opening of the trial of three American hikers accused of spying. The hikers strayed over the border from Iraq in 2009. At the five-hour hearing yesterday, […] […]

A British journalist from the Guardian newspaper has been expelled from Russia after reporting claims in US diplomatic cables that the country had become a “mafia state”, the paper says. Luke Harding, the daily’s Moscow […] […]

BUFFALO, New York – The founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims […] […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Two men have been arrested and charged in a shooting at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people at a party just north of the Youngstown State […] […]

BARACK Obama has played down the prospect of the anti-US Muslim Brotherhood taking control in Egypt after President Hosni Mubarak quits office. The US President yesterday described the Muslim Brotherhood as well organised with strains […] […]

LONDON—A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday that Swedish secrecy around rape proceedings and his client’s global notoriety mean there is a risk of a denial of justice if he is extradited to […] […]