Month: December 2011

KINGSTON, Jamaica—A U.S. surveillance plane helped monitor the deadly 2010 raid by Jamaican security forces to capture a fugitive crime boss, the prime minister said, reversing earlier government denials. A U.S. P-3 Orion aircraft provided […] […]

Severe winds slammed Scotland on Thursday, snarling transport and leaving thousands without power as gusts in some areas surpassed 160 kilometres per hour. Britain’s Met Office which issued a “red alert” for parts of Scotland […] […]

A PARCEL bomb exploded at a public building in Rome, injuring one person, police said today. The explosion happened at offices belonging to the tax-collecting organization Equitalia in Via Andrea Millevoi, in the center of […] […]

THE CIA used a clandestine detention centre in Bucharest to interrogate al-Qaeda suspects, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, according to an investigation by German media. The prison, used between 2003 and 2006, was […] […]

A COURT in Thailand has jailed a Thai-born American for 2 1/2 years for defaming the monarchy, a sentence that the US criticised as “severe”. The conviction of Joe Wichai Commart Gordon, who appeared in […] […]

The Taleban issued a statement condemning deadly attacks on two shrines in Afghanistan that killed at least 58 people overnight, blaming the bombings on the “invading enemy”. No group has claimed responsibility for the strikes […] […]

Students hurled rocks and bottles during clashes with police at a rally to mark the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager in central Athens. About 2,000 youths threw rocks, bottles, paving […] […]

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has cancelled a visit to Britain to fly home after at least 59 people were killed in twin attacks on Shia shrines, the country’s embassy said Tuesday. “President Karzai will no […] […]

US President Barack Obama has lashed out at the “gaping inequality” stalking America, saying the middle class struggle to secure a decent life was the “defining issue of our time.” Mr Obama travelled to Kansas […] […]