Month: December 2011

French police have neutralised a letter bomb sent to the Greek embassy in Paris from Italy in what appeared to be the latest in a string of explosive parcel attacks, officials said. The Greek foreign […] […]

New Canadians will have to remove any face coverings, such as the Islamic niqab or burqa, while they take the oath of citizenship, the country’s immigration minister has said. Jason Kenney said he’s received complaints […] […]

A BELGIAN court has sentenced four members of a Pakistani family to prison for the murder of their law student daughter and sister in the country’s first “honour killing” trial. After pronouncing the family members […] […]

A school bus taking primary students home slipped off a country road and into an irrigation ditch in eastern China, killing 15 children and highlighting continuing safety problems in the country’s school transport system following […] […]

ATLANTA—An attorney for a high-ranking Department of Defense employee charged with taking a bribe to steer federal contracts for work in Afghanistan to a contractor says he’s set to plead guilty. Desi Deandre Wade’s attorney […] […]

Police in London say they have arrested 143 people on Saturday during an angry demonstration by up to 500 people against the re-election of President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Protesters broke […] […]

AT least 41 civilians including seven children were shot dead by Syrian security forces in the capital Damascus and the restive central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said in […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaican authorities say 217 police officers who took voluntary lie-detector tests this year failed. Assistant Police Commissioner Justin Felice said Friday that was 60 percent of the 362 officers who underwent the tests. He […] […]