Month: February 2011

BENGHAZI, Libya – Protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster came under a hail of bullets when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital yesterday, local time. […] […]

A SAUDI man has been arrested for allegedly buying chemicals and equipment to make a bomb and researching US targets, including the Dallas home of former president George W. Bush. US targets, including the Dallas […] […]

MILITANTS in northwestern Pakistan blew up at least 11 tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, killing four people, police said. The rebels struck at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar, the […] […]

WASHINGTON – In a major policy reversal, the Obama Administration said yesterday it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a law banning recognition of same-sex marriage. Attorney-General Eric Holder said President Barack Obama had […] […]

ONE of Muammar Gaddafi’s former ministers has predicted that the Libyan leader will follow in Adolph Hitler’s footsteps by committing suicide, rather than give up power. Mustapha Abdeljalil, justice minister until he quit over the […] […]

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi appeared to have lost control of large sections of his country last night as anti-government protesters pledged to liberate the capital, Tripoli. Much of the eastern part of the country was […] […]

JULIAN Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face a series of sex allegations, a British judge ruled last night. The Australian founder of the WikiLeaks website instantly appealed to the British High Court against […] […]

LIBYA’S former justice minister has claimed that he has evidence that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing. Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, who resigned his cabinet post this week because he opposed the violent crackdown on […] […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli tank fire has wounded 11 people, including at least six militants, in the Gaza Strip, following an attack on an Israeli patrol, the military and Palestinian officials said. One […] […]