Month: May 2011

A powerful bomb ripped through a restaurant at a market in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, killing eight men and wounding 10 others, officials said. The attack happened in the Salarzai […] […]

TWO more Germans have died of a bacterial outbreak allegedly caused by contaminated Spanish cucumbers – bringing the number of deaths to nine, officials say. German news agency DAPD reported that two more women died […] […]

EGYPT today reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza, allowing people to cross freely for the first time in four years, in a move hailed by Hamas but criticised by Israel. Among the first to […] […]

A CAIRO court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and two ex-ministers $US90 million dollars ($A84.7 million) for “damaging the economy” with a telephone and Internet shutdown during Egypt’s uprising. Mubarak, his former prime minister […] […]

US President Barack Obama has reassured east European allies that cooperation over missile defence with their Soviet-era master Moscow does not mean NATO will cede partial control to Russia. “We believe that missile defence is […] […]

US President Barack Obama has left Warsaw, ending a four-country European tour that took him to Ireland, Britain, a G8 summit in France and lastly to Poland. Air Force One departed the Polish capital after […] […]

BEIJING, CHINA — North Korea freed an American held for a half year for reportedly proselytizing, handing him Saturday to a U.S. envoy who said Washington had not promised to provide aid in exchange for […] […]

EIGHT American soldiers have been killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, in one of the worst single incidents in recent months. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said the soldiers were killed by two successive […] […]

THE United States and France are united in their resolve to finish the job in Libya, US President Barack Obama said after talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit today. Obama and the […] […]