Month: May 2011

PAKISTAN’S president said yesterday accusations that his nation extends safe haven to extremists were “baseless” and insisted its long-term help was crucial to the US triumph in gunning down Osama bin Laden. Asif Ali Zardari’s […] […]

ONE of the world’s most wanted Nazi war criminals, Sandor Kepiro, 97, goes on trial in Hungary on Thursday charged with the murder of 36 people in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 1942. With the trial […] […]

ABBOTTABAD, PAKISTAN— Pakistan’s leader denied suggestions that his country’s security forces sheltered Osama bin Laden as Britain demanded Tuesday that Islamabad answer for how the Al Qaeda chief lived undetected for six years in a […] […]

LONDON—Five men were arrested under anti-terrorism laws near a nuclear waste-processing plant in northwest England, police said Tuesday. Cumbria Constabulary said the men were detained under the Terrorism Act near the Sellafield plant on Monday […] […]

WASHINGTON—A U.S. official says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was far from alone when U.S. forces launched their assault on his compound in Pakistan. The official tells The Associated Press that 23 children and nine […] […]

If there is a day that a “war on terror” can end, it might have been yesterday. The killing of Osama bin Laden is unlikely to end the threat of the terrorism he inspired, it […] […]

Travellers to Europe will face extra security over the next few days in the wake of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden’s death. Interpol has warned of possible retaliatory attacks for the US killing of the […] […]

THE Swiss government says it has identified potential assets to be frozen worth 830 million Swiss francs ($A872.9 million) belonging to Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi and the ousted presidents of Egypt and Tunisia. Foreign Minister […] […]

FORCES loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have launched a new armoured incursion into the besieged rebel city Misrata as his son, killed in a NATO-led air strike, was buried in Tripoli. AFP correspondents heard […] […]

SECRETARY-GENERAL Ban Ki-moon has called the death of Osama bin Laden “a watershed moment” in the global fight against terrorism. Ban told reporters that the United Nations will continue, with world leaders, to lead the […] […]