Month: July 2011

SYRIA has accelerated its supply of weapons, including advanced ballistic missiles, to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon in a move that could further inflame an already destabilised region. According to intelligence sources in the West and […] […]

AT least 28 civilians were killed in Syria overnight, including 16 in the capital Damascus and a child, as security forces opened fire to quell the largest anti-regime rallies in four months, activists said. US […] […]

US President Barack Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama tomorrow (AEST), defying warnings from China, after calls built at home to welcome Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, officials said. The meeting was announced today after […] […]

BEIJING—China called on the U.S. to withdraw an invitation for the Dalai Lama to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House, saying Saturday that it could hurt relations between the two countries. China […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s intelligence minister said Friday that his country has found a way to block the so-called “Internet in a suitcase,” a program reportedly developed by the U.S. to bring online access to dissidents around […] […]

BENGHAZI, Libya—Rebels in Libya’s east say they have fallen back after a failed advance on the oil town of Brega that left one fighter dead. Fighter Abdel-Hamid Badein said Friday that rebels advanced on the […] […]

An Indonesian volcano erupted overnight, spewing rocks, lava and ash hundreds of metres into the air. The eruption came just three days after its alert status was raised to the highest level. There has been […] […]

A man accused of abducting and dismembering an 8-year-old New York boy told investigators that he suffocated the child with a towel after learning that thousands of volunteers were out searching for the youth, a […] […]

SLAIN al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a top lieutenant discussed the make-up of a team of militants to attack the United States on this year’s 10th anniversary of 9/11, a report said. The Wall […] […]