Month: May 2011

HUNDREDS of dissidents have been arrested across Syria, including in the flashpoint town of Daraa and a besieged Damascus suburb, after dozens were killed in weekend protests, activists said. Anti-regime activists called for fresh protests […] […]

THE Taliban has used a 12-year-old boy as a suicide bomber as part of a new wave of attacks that killed four civilians, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said, calling the child’s recruitment inhumane and un-Islamic. […] […]

LONDON – Former heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper, who was best known for knocking down Muhammad Ali while he was still known as Cassius Clay, died Sunday. The popular British sportsman was 76. The first boxer […] […]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the goal of releasing secret documents is not to undermine governments but to “promote justice”. “It is not our aim to destabilise any government per se. Rather, we work for […] […]

A SUICIDE explosion in eastern Afghanistan today killed three civilians and wounded 11 others, the interior ministry said. The attacker detonated his explosive vest in a district of Paktika province on the border with Pakistan. […] […]

A NATO bomb has struck a house in Tripoli where Muammar Gaddafi and his wife were staying, missing the Libyan leader but killing his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said. Sayf al-Arab […] […]