Month: September 2011

A SENIOR al-Qa’ida commander – believed to have been in line to become deputy – has been killed in a US drone attack on Pakistan, dealing a further blow to the global terrorist group in […] […]

WITH one brief, cryptic message yesterday, Somayeh Tohidlou, a well known Iranian blogger, alerted her many followers to the fact that she had just been lashed 50 times for her political activism. “Be content,” she […] […]

MUSLIMS will be banned from praying outdoors in France from today in the latest move by officials to remove Islam from the public sphere. The ban, announced by the government yesterday, infuriated French Muslim leaders, […] […]

UN SECRETARY-General Ban Ki-moon has called for international action against Syria, saying President Bashar Assad has repeatedly broken promises to reform. Using unusually strong language, Ban on Thursday accused Assad of “escalating violence and repression” […] […]

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta showed frustration with Pakistan yesterday, warning that Washington would not tolerate any more cross-border attacks on American forces in Afghanistan. Speaking hours before a meeting with the Foreign Minister, Kevin […] […]

Figures on income levels released this week confirm what many in the United States struggling to make ends meet already knew: it is a country in the midst of a poverty crisis that will define […] […]

A US father was charged with assault after prosecutors said he slapped his 7-year old son until he cried then threw the boy overboard during a pleasure cruise in California. Sloan Briles, 35, had been […] […]

PRESS watchdog Reporters Without Borders is condemning authorities in Burma for adding 10 years to a journalist’s eight-year jail sentence. Sithu Zeya was sentenced in 2010 to eight years in jail after he was caught […] […]