World/Local News

HAVANA—A Cuban opposition group held three small marches in Havana in support of jailed dissidents Friday without meeting the kind of vehement pro-government response that has characterized past protests. Members of the Ladies in White […] […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—A suicide attacker drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a hospital for Shiite Muslims that was under construction in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 10 people, police said. Several people were […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—Several hundred demonstrators, some holding photographs of victims of three decades of war, shouted for justice and peace Friday in the Afghan capital, just hours before a suicide car bomber blew himself up in […] […]

LONDON—British police were searching Friday for vandals who chopped down a thorn tree venerated for centuries by Christians. The Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree, said to have links to the earliest days of Christianity in England, […] […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian police arrested one of the country’s most-wanted Islamic militants Friday, accusing him of plotting high-profile assassinations and bloody attacks on foreigners at luxury hotels in the capital. Abu Tholut was captured without a […] […]

AID agencies in southern Sudan said the humanitarian situation was worsening as tensions built over the region’s bid for independence from the north, Sky News reported today. Tens of thousands of refugees who fled decades […] […]

BEIJING—China battened down the hatches and choked off websites that could carry broadcasts of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony Friday — hoping to seal off the country from news honouring jailed Chinese writer and dissident […] […]

Prince Charles in his tuxedo looks anxiously ahead as a protester’s fist pounds on his car. His wife Camilla’s mouth gapes in shock above her emerald dress. These are the dramatic images captured by an […] […]

VLADIMIR Putin has led growing support from some world leaders for the beleaguered WikiLeaks founder, describing his detention in Britain as “undemocratic”. The wave of support for Julian Assange, currently in a British jail as […] […]

IRAN is yet to confirm claims that an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning has been freed. Photographs have been released of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani while on home leave last week but without any official […] […]