Month: June 2011

TWO bomb attacks have ripped through vehicles carrying civilians in Afghanistan, killing seven people including children, the government says. One bomb planted by the side of a road in Ghazni province, southeast Afghanistan, hit a […] […]

A military court in Moscow last night handed down a 25-year sentence to a top Russian foreign intelligence agent who was convicted in absentia of exposing a “sleeper cell” network in the US. Colonel Alexander […] […]

THE International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the early days of their struggle to cling to power. Judges […] […]

CAIRO — Amnesty International said Monday that Egypt’s military rulers have acknowledged carrying out so-called “virginity tests” on female protesters — the first time the army has admitted to the much-criticized practice. Maj. Gen. Abdel […] […]

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber in a wheelchair blew himself up at the entrance to a police station north of the capital Baghdad on Sunday, killing three people and wounding 18, officials said. Two police […] […]

BAGHDAD—An Iraqi court has sentenced the wife of a slain al-Qaida leader to 20 years in prison on terrorism-related charges, an Iraqi judicial spokesman said Sunday. Hasna Ali Yahya, the Yemeni wife of Abu Ayyub […] […]

LONDON—A British teenager accused of attacks on a series of websites is being kept in custody until a Monday bail hearing. Ryan Cleary was granted bail by City of Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, but […] […]

Grammy-award winning reggae superstar, Buju Banton, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Buju, whose real name is Mark Myrie, was sentenced Thursday morning [June 23] in the Sam M Gibbons Federal Court in […] […]

With the death of the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, and the arrest of Boston crime figure James “Whitey” Bulger, the FBI’s ’10 Most Wanted’ list has a couple of vacancies. And it’s […] […]