Month: March 2011

LIBYA leader Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli headquarters has been flattened, as coalition forces carried out a new wave of air strikes and said they had set up a ‘no-fly zone’ across the country. A missile has […] […]

THE Japanese government has told people not to drink the tap water in a village near the quake-hit nuclear power plant after high levels of radioactive iodine were detected. The warning came as workers said […] […]

A MIRACLE survival story unfolded last night in Japan’s tsunami damage zone with an 80-year-old woman and her grandson plucked from the ruins of a house in Ishinomaki. Japanese television was last night showing dramatic […] […]

COALITION strikes have succeeded in crippling the air defences of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan regime and a no-fly zone is effectively in place over the country, the US military said on Sunday. “We judge these strikes […] […]

CARACAS, VENEZUELA—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez condemned military strikes against Libya on Saturday, accusing the United States and its European allies of attacking the country to seize its oil. Chavez’s ally and mentor Fidel Castro raised […] […]

WASHINGTON—More than 100 anti-war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House on Saturday in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The protesters, […] […]