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Michelle Obama has been named as the world’s most powerful woman, ahead of the likes of Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel and Oprah Winfrey. The Queen, however, did not even make the top 10. Mrs Obama […] […]

A Guantanamo Bay detainee facing serious terrorism charges has found an unusual ally – the US justice system. The judge in the first civilian trial of a Gitmo detainee has barred the prosecution’s star witness […] […]

Women’s rights were once the poster issue for Western intervention in Afghanistan, and images of women shrouded in burqas fuelled outrage against the extremist Taliban regime. But nearly a decade later, says a senior Canadian […] […]

JAILED Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton will have to spend another anxiety-filled week behind bars in the United States before he knows whether or not he will be granted bail, pending his December retrial on […] […]

AFGHAN officials, retired Pakistani security chiefs and former Taliban leaders are meeting in Kabul, trying to find ways to open peace talks with the insurgents—possibly by dropping key Western-backed conditions to such a reconciliation. The […] […]

THE US Supreme Court is considering whether an anti-gay religious group can picket military funerals with signs that read “Thank God for dead soldiers”. The court is weighing whether the action exercises the group’s right […] […]

WASHINGTON—FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday called for changes in federal law to help his agents with surveillance of communications in anti-terrorism and other criminal investigations. At a conference of intelligence experts, Mueller said that […] […]

The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk yesterday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed. “Brace […] […]

LONDON—Security camera footage captured a Saudi prince savagely beating his servant in a luxury hotel elevator only weeks before the aide was slain, a British prosecutor said Tuesday. Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud […] […]

AMSTERDAM—Muslims in the Netherlands say that remarks by politician Geert Wilders have poisoned attitudes toward them, making them feel unwelcome and at risk, according to complaints disclosed at his hate speech trial Wednesday. “My family […] […]