Month: May 2011

Tens of thousands of people massed in the centre of Chile’s capital yesterday for new protests against the Government’s plan to dam two wild rivers in the country’s southern Patagonia region. Most demonstrators were peaceful, […] […]

Police say two landslides that hit a Malaysian orphanage killed 15 boys and one adult but nine other people survived. District police chief Abdul Rashid Wahab says the bodies of 15 boys, aged 8 to […] […]

Under pressure from protesters and regional allies, Yemen’s president said he will sign a deal to step down after 32 years in power. Still, he condemned the proposal as “a coup” and warned the US […] […]

A BOMB has exploded at a bank in Northern Ireland but caused no injuries, one day after Queen Elizabeth II ended an historic trip across the border in the Irish Republic. The blast in a […] […]

THE three widows of Osama bin Laden are turning on each other in custody, with two older Saudi women blaming a much younger Yemeni wife for leading American intelligence to their hideout. “It’s vicious,” said […] […]

NATO widened its campaign to weaken Muammar Gaddafi’s regime with airstrikes on desert command centres and sea patrols to intercept ships, the military alliance said on Saturday, amid signs of growing public anger over fuel […] […]

A POWERFUL blast has struck a military hospital in Afghanistan, killing at least three people and wounding many others. The blast occurred inside a tent on the grounds of the Mohammad Daud Khan military hospital […] […]

AT least 15 people were killed in an oil tanker blaze after a bomb exploded on the Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicle near a Pakistani border town today, officials said. The victims were young people who had […] […]

ISRAELI troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager overnight in the Gaza Strip as he approached the border fence with Israel, Palestinian medics said. The 17-year-old boy’s body was found near the El Bureij refugee camp […] […]

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told President Barack Obama today that Israel would never go back to “indefensible” 1967 borders to make peace with the Palestinians. In a dramatic televised Oval Office appearance, after […] […]