Month: March 2011

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s U.S.-backed president, his support crumbling among political allies and the army, warned that the country could slide into a “bloody” civil war Tuesday as the opposition rejected his offer to step […] […]

BU MARIEM, Libya—The U.S. pilot who ejected from a fighter jet that crashed in eastern Libya found himself surrounded early Tuesday by curious locals who served him juice and thanked his country for bombing forces […] […]

AJDABIYA, LIBYA—President Barack Obama says he has no doubt that the U.S. will be able to transfer control of the military operation in Libya to an international coalition within days. Obama and other U.S. officials […] […]

Calming British fears LONDON—Prime Minister David Cameron tried to reassure a war-weary public on Monday that Britain’s military involvement in Libya will not drag it into another Iraq-style conflict. After a six-hour debate, the British […] […]

An aboriginal man was the victim of racial profiling when he was wrongly arrested in Toronto for possessing a stolen bicycle, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has found. The complaint stemmed from an incident […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s air defences were being protected today by crowds of civilians who, through a mixture of fervour and fear, have become human shields in Libya’s war. “Thousands” of men and women showing support for […] […]

COLONEL Muammar Gaddafi’s regime secretly provided information to Britain and the US on Islamic extremists in the east of Libya, according to leaked diplomatic cables and intelligence sources. The names of hundreds of suspects were […] […]

JAPAN’s nuclear crisis has exposed huge weaknesses in how the world deals with such disasters, the UN nuclear chief says, urging changes in emergency responses worldwide. Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, […] […]

THE British government has raised the possibility of assassinating Muammar Gaddafi to force regime change in Libya, after a barrage of allied air strikes successfully imposed a no-fly zone over the country. British Defence Secretary […] […]