Month: April 2011

At least 18 people in the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli air strikes over the weekend and dozens wounded as 120 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza into Israel in the most […] […]

Syrian security forces and pro-government gunmen killed four protesters on Sunday in the port city of Banias after the army sealed off the city as hundreds of protesters gathered, undaunted by the regime’s use of […] […]

Japan is marking a month since a 9.0 magnitude undersea quake sent a powerful tsunami crashing into its coast, devastating entire towns and sparking the worst nuclear emergency in 25 years. People across the country […] […]

The lives of scores of people were put at risk in Northern Ireland as a stream of vehicles were allowed to pass within feet of a van containing a large bomb, it emerged yesterday. The […] […]

Kenza Drider, a respectable mother of four, will leave her home in Avignon’s Place de la Resistance today with the intention of committing a crime. If the police are waiting for her – and they […] […]

CAIRO—In the first remarks since his ouster, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied he abused his authority to amass wealth and property in a pre-recorded speech broadcast Sunday. Mubarak, forced out of office two months […] […]

LONDON—Police charged a Royal Navy sailor on Sunday with murdering an officer aboard a British nuclear-powered submarine. Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 22, is also charged with the attempted murder of three other crew on HMS […] […]

MINGORA, Pakistan—Seven suspected militants were killed early Sunday in a clash with Pakistani security forces in a northwest valley once controlled by the Taliban, police said. The suspects were believed to have been fleeing a […] […]