Month: May 2011

PAKISTANI security forces foiled a major suicide attack when they killed five militants equipped with suicide vests, three of them women, in a firefight, officials said. The incident took place today near a security post […] […]

LIBYA’S oil minister has defected and fled to Tunisia, a Tunisian security official says. The official said today that Shukri Ghanem, the head of the national oil company and Libya’s oil minister, crossed into Tunisia […] […]

NATO helicopters from Afghanistan wounded two Pakistani soldiers in a cross-border attack, officials said, triggering a “strong protest” from Islamabad as tensions with the US simmered after Osama bin Laden’s death. The two choppers opened […] […]

QUEEN Elizabeth II arrived in the Republic of Ireland today to start the first visit by a British monarch in a century. The sovereign, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, touched down at Casement Aerodrome, […] […]

A MOTHER who admitted on national television to injecting her eight-year-old daughter with Botox has lost custody of the child. Child protection officers investigated Kerry Campbell after she appeared on Good Morning America last week, […] […]

FOURTEEN Muslims, including Japanese nationals, have filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo and state governments, contending that anti-terrorism investigations by police violated their freedom of faith. The 14 plaintiffs are demanding a total Y154 million […] […]

SYRIA’S brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protests took a chilling turn on Monday with the discovery of a mass grave in Daraa, the town at the heart of protests roiling the country for two months, an […] […]

Afghanistan’s former intelligence chief says he knew Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan four years ago, but Pakistan’s leaders rejected his claims. In an interview broadcast today on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Amrullah Saleh says […] […]

CHICAGO—A Chicago courtroom could become the unlikely venue for revealing alleged connections between the terrorist group blamed for the 2008 rampage that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai and Pakistan’s main intelligence agency, which […] […]