Month: April 2011

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drone aircraft to launch airstrikes against ground targets in Libya, the latest sign of mounting concern in Washington that the NATO-led air campaign has failed […] […]

JORDAN has detained 136 people on “terrorism” charges a week after scores were hurt when Islamist Salafist protesters clashed with police in the northern city of Zarqa, a police spokesman said today. “The involvement of […] […]

NAIROBI, Kenya—Kenya’s police commissioner is warning that al-Qaida-linked Somali insurgents that have already carried out an international attack may attempt to strike Kenya over the Easter holidays. Mathew Iteere said Thursday night that police have […] […]

SANAA, Yemen—Opponents and supporters of Yemen’s embattled president are marching in cities and towns across the nation for rival rallies after Friday prayers. Hundreds of thousands are chanting against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as military […] […]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES—A landslide loosened by a downpour buried bunkhouses and entryways to gold-mining tunnels before dawn Friday, leaving one miner dead and about 40 others missing in a remote mountain area in the southern Philippines, […] […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal judge in Oregon ruled Thursday that the Vatican must respond to certain requests for information from a man who says he was molested by a priest in the 1960s. The man known […] […]

By 2020, every state may have bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and the workplace, federal health officials predicted Thursday, based on the current pace of adopting anti-smoking laws. The number of states with comprehensive […] […]

THE US military will use armed drones over Libya, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said, as coalition forces sought a breakthrough in the campaign against Muammar Gaddafi. The move comes as US authorities foreshadowed war crimes […] […]

TWO Minnesota girls who felt bullied by their peers killed themselves in an apparent suicide pact during a sleepover at one of the teen’s homes, ABC News reported today. The bodies of Haylee Fentress and […] […]

QUEEN Elizabeth II celebrated her 85th birthday today by visiting London’s Westminster Abbey, in a useful rehearsal for the wedding of her grandson Prince William next week. The monarch attended the Royal Maundy service, an […] […]