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A SENIOR member of the Saudi royal family has warned that the oil-rich country could be harmed by the uprisings sweeping the Arab world unless it speeded up reforms. Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud […] […]

A judge has found a police officer not guilty of breaking a drug-dealing reggae musician’s jaw with his knee during an on-street detention. Ontario provincial court Justice Ann Nelson acquitted Const. Jason Goss, 36, of […] […]

ISRAEL has warned Iran and its ally Hezbollah not to test it, charging that Tehran was preparing to send warships into the Mediterranean as the Lebanese militia threatened to occupy northern Israel in the event […] […]

A journalist has resigned from his New York University fellowship a day after posting derogatory comments on Twitter about CBS reporter Lara Logan, The Australian has reported. “Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is […] […]

At the beginning leg of a 500km walk to promote Tibetan independence from China, the Dalai Lama’s nephew was struck and killed by a vehicle along a dark Florida coastal highway, about 400 metres from […] […]

Thousands of protesters took over a main square in Bahrain’s capital this morning in a bold attempt to copy Egypt’s uprising and force high-level changes in one of Washington’s key allies in the Gulf. The […] […]

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that those behind anti-government protests in Iran will fail, as furious lawmakers demanded the execution of opposition chiefs who had called for the rallies. US President Barack Obama, in one […] […]

LEADING CBS news foreign correspondent Lara Logan suffered a “brutal” sexual assault at the hands of a mob in Egypt while covering the downfall of president Hosni Mubarak, the network said today. “She and her […] […]

THE US “must give an explanation” for sending undeclared weapons and drugs on a military flight to Argentina last week, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman says. “They must give an explanation,” Mr Timerman told CNN. […] […]

WASHINGTON’S efforts to get Twitter to hand over information on the accounts of people connected to WikiLeaks is “outrageous,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said overnight. “This is an outrageous attack by the Obama administration on […] […]