Articles by sandrea

A PAKISTANI police surgeon who testified that security forces shot dead five unarmed foreigners – including a heavily pregnant woman – outside Quetta in May has been assassinated in what is suspected to be the […] […]

Preliminary results show that opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller has reclaimed leadership of Jamaica in a dramatic political comeback. Election Director Orrette Fisher tells The Associated Press that based on preliminary results “it appears safe […] […]

A TALIBAN bomb attack killed 10 Afghan police returning from a recruitment centre in southern Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province today, the local government said. The victims were members of the US-funded Afghan Local Police (ALP) […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—NATO says a man wearing an Afghan army uniform has killed two service members in eastern Afghanistan. The alliance says the two NATO troops were killed on Thursday when the man turned his weapon […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Jamaica’s two main political parties are in a neck-and-neck race to capture a majority of the country’s 63 parliamentary seats and win control of the government for the next five years. Both sides were […] […]

Driving under the influence of cannabis, cocaine and Ecstasy is one step closer to being outlawed in Britain. An expert panel will advise the Government about introducing a new offence of driving after taking an […] […]

A HACKING group responsible for stealing thousands of credit card numbers from a US security company has announced that it will make even more damaging disclosures. Barrett Brown, an activist for Anonymous, a hacking network, […] […]

TWO women were in a Florida jail facing robbery charges Tuesday (local time) after attempting to mug a man who fought them off using his crutches. William Joseph Knowles told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that his crutches, […] […]

A UTAH woman used Facebook to get help after she and her 17-month-old son were held hostage at a residence for nearly five days, police said. Police Sgt. Jon Arnold said the woman hid in […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—An American man accused by Iran of working for the CIA could face the death penalty, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Tuesday. In a closed court hearing, the prosecution applied for capital punishment, […] […]