Month: February 2011

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is getting a dose of his own medicine, with details of the confidential Swedish police pre-trial investigation continuing to be leaked on the internet. The latest leak is a 100-page fax […] […]

Foreign journalists were beaten with sticks and fists by pro-government mobs in Cairo this morning, and dozens were detained by security forces. The US condemned what it called the “systematic targeting” of the reporters, photographers […] […]

AMMAN, Jordan—Islamic militants took to the Internet to call on Muslims to unite behind Egyptian protesters and not to “waste the chance” to topple President Hosni Mubarak and claim power in the North African nation. […] […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—A 48-year-old Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay collapsed and died, apparently from natural causes, after exercising inside the jail, the U.S. military said Thursday. Awal Gul fell in the shower Tuesday night […] […]

FORMER US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted to oversee the initial reconstruction of Iraq following his country’s invasion but was rebuffed by president George W. Bush, according to leaked pages of his forthcoming memoir. He […] […]

PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak wants to leave office, but fears there will be chaos in Egypt if he resigns now. The beleaguered Egyptian leader said he was “fed up with being president and would like to […] […]

TWO separate explosions in an industrial district of the Turkish capital killed at least 12 people today and injured dozens of others, authorities said. A powerful explosion collapsed two storeys of a factory, leaving at […] […]

WEEKS of clashes between rival Muslim rebel groups in the southern Philippines have left 13 people dead and forced thousands of others to flee their homes, the military said Thursday. More than 1000 rebels armed […] […]