World/Local News

Amid mounting criticism of his handling of the Libyan crisis, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, yesterday had to accept the blame for a bungled SAS mission which the opposition called an “embarrassment” that could have […] […]

Troops loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi stepped up their fightback against opposition forces last night, exercising a level of brutality not yet seen in the conflict. Pro-Gaddafi troops used tanks and aircraft to bombard the […] […]

MIAMI—Attorneys representing potentially thousands of Guatemalans who were affected by U.S. syphilis experiments decades ago said Tuesday they will sue top federal health officials unless a system is created out of court to settle claims […] […]

David Cameron has declared that enterprise was morally right and defended his controversial campaign to sell British-made arms to regimes around the world with poor records on democracy and human rights. In his closing speech […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s regime accused the West of “a conspiracy to divide Libya” as Washington, under mounting pressure to help opposition forces, said it was premature to arm the rebels. Fresh fighting was reported in the […] […]

AN explosion at a gas station in Pakistan’s central Punjab province today killed 13 people and injured 35 others, an official in Faisalabad city said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. “The […] […]

JACQUES Chirac has became the first former French president to go on trial as a court heard charges that he embezzled public funds while he was mayor of Paris in the 1990s. The 78-year-old, one […] […]

LIBYA—U.S. President Barack Obama warned Libya’s leaders that the U.S. and its NATO allies are still considering military options in response to what he called “unacceptable” violence perpetrated by supporters of Gadhafi. “I want to […] […]

President Hamid Karzai yesterday rejected an apology by the US general running the military campaign in his country for the deaths of nine boys in an attack by a helicopter gunship, sending relations with Washington […] […]

The two jets swooped low and fast, the missiles exploding nearby and forcing those on the road to dive for cover. Artillery shells and mortar rounds landed in salvos as dark plumes of smoke rose […] […]