Month: February 2011

MI5 missed a glaring opportunity to identify the July 7 bombing ringleader when a clear surveillance photograph of Mohammad Sidique Khan was “appallingly” cropped in half, it emerged yesterday. Due to its subsequent poor quality […] […]

LIBYAN armed forces launched airstrikes on protesters as the iron-fisted rule of Muammar Gaddafi was rocked overnight with protests gripping the capital and regime loyalists defecting. Government officials at home and abroad resigned in protest […] […]

THOUSANDS of Europeans fled the unrest in Libya yesterday and the United States has ordered non-essential personnel to leave the oil-rich north African nation amid escalating violence. Portugal, Austria and The Netherlands sent military planes […] […]

CAIRO: Protesters stormed Libya’s state broadcaster and torched the the Interior Ministry and police stations in Tripoli as the Gaddafi regime unleashed the harshest crackdown of any Arab country to undergo the wave of protests […] […]

THE Chinese Government, rattled by protests sweeping the Middle East, swung into action yesterday to quash online calls for a “jasmine revolution” on the streets of Beijing and 12 other cities across the country. Although […] […]

AN IRISH republican terror cell is operating in England for the first time in a decade, creating a growing security problem in the weeks before the royal wedding. Counter-terrorism teams in southern England have been […] […]

CAIRO—After anti-government unrest spread to the Libyan capital and protesters seized military bases and weapons Sunday, Moammar Gadhafi’s son went on state television to proclaim that his father remained in charge with the army’s backing […] […]

IRAN freed two detained German journalists, state media reported, and Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived later Saturday in Tehran to take them home. The German journalists, who work for German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, […] […]

TAMPA, USA — Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton emerged from court looking comfortable and greeted supporters after jurors yesterday failed to reach a verdict in his gun and drug retrial following hours of deliberations. The […] […]