Month: April 2011

IN a major about-face, the Obama administration says 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators will be tried by a military tribunal at Guantanamo rather than a civilian court in New York. Attorney […] […]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon insisted helicopter raids by UN and French forces in Ivory Coast were to defend civilians and were not a declaration of war against strongman Laurent Gbagbo. Ban said in a statement […] […]

The sentences handed down to four men for their parts in the 2009 Princess Ashika tragedy may be appealed by the Crown and the shipping company. New Zealander John Jonesse, the former head of the […] […]

DOZENS of people were injured and more than 100 arrested today as Bangladeshi police fired rubber bullets during a strike by Islamic parties against a proposed law to give women equal property rights. Police also […] […]

A JORDANIAN man who admitted killing his sister “to cleanse the family’s honour” was charged with committing a “pre-meditated crime” yesterday, a judicial source told AFP. The 25-year-old man was accused of committing a “pre-meditated […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, has proposed taking over from his father and setting Libya on course to become a constitutional democracy. The Libyan dictator’s British-educated son would take control of the country in an […] […]

CAIRO—Gunmen kidnapped a grandniece of Anwar Sadat and demanded a ransom. In one southern city, robbers didn’t bother to wait until dark to target pedestrians. In another, a brawl between two school children led to […] […]

A TEENAGE suicide bomber struck a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan today, killing eight people in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to strike the country. The bomb, apparently targeting an anti-Taliban militia […] […]

GREENPEACE says hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter of a century after the blast. In a report, the environmental group […] […]

AT least two sons of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are proposing a transition to a constitutional democracy that would include their father’s removal from power, New York Times is reporting. Citing an unnamed diplomat and […] […]