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YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea: South Korea has begun live-fire drills from a front-line island shelled last month by North Korea, in defiance of the North’s threats to attack again. The Defence Ministry said the drills […] […]

Herald on Sunday senior staffers David Fisher and Jonathan Milne have obtained a 250,000-word dossier of secret WikiLeaks cables. The vast collection will embarrass some politicians but raises key issues of national security. All of […] […]

NATO has said its troops killed more than 20 insurgents in fighting that broke out after a patrol came under fire in eastern Afghanistan. In the southern city of Kandahar, a suicide bomber targeting a […] […]

US diplomats in New Delhi were told by the Red Cross about the use of torture on detainees in Kashmir by Indian security forces, newly released cables show. Electrocutions, beatings and sexual humiliation of hundreds […] […]

AN ITALIAN court has ordered a review of key forensic evidence in the case of Amanda Knox, the American convicted of murdering a British student, in a victory for her defence. There will be fresh […] […]

THE UN Security Council will meet later today on the soaring tensions on the Korean peninsula, as the North warns of “disaster” if South Korea goes ahead with a live-fire artillery exercise. Russia, a permanent […] […]

WASHINGTON—The Senate on Saturday voted to strike down the Pentagon ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of […] […]

LONDON—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to his legal troubles. The […] […]

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange said it was “increasingly likely” the US would try to extradite him on charges related to leaked cables as he savoured his first day on bail. Mr Assange said he was […] […]