World/Local News

SYRIAN troops today fought violent battles with “armed gangs” in flashpoint Jisr Al-Shughur town as international outrage mounted at Syria’s brutal crackdown on protesters, state television reported. “Army divisions entered Jisr al-Shughur and purged the […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—Afghan officials say Pakistan has agreed in principle to target and eliminate the hideouts of Taliban fighters and other insurgents who refuse to take part in hoped-for peace talks. Presidential spokesman Waheed Omar offered […] […]

BEIJING—More than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China’s latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday. China has suffered widespread problems in recent years from heavy metal contamination, with […] […]

Al Qaeda did not die with Osama bin Laden. But as the Arab Spring takes the global imagination elsewhere, the residual threat of jihadism is growing increasingly irrelevant, an international security summit in London was […] […]

THOUSANDS of women have taken part in a so-called freedom walk in London, insisting they should be able to wear as much or as little as they like without facing sexual harassment by men. The […] […]

TWIN bomb blasts minutes apart have ripped through a crowded supermarket complex killing 35 people and injuring more than 80 in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar. The attack, one of the deadliest since US Navy […] […]

THE presumed head of Al-Qaeda in east Africa, Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, wanted for blowing up the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed in Mogadishu this week. Fazul Abdullah, 38, is thought to have […] […]

After a month of testing thousands of vegetables, simple detective work has trumped science in the hunt for the source of the world’s deadliest E. coli outbreak. The culprit: sprouts. Health officials said sprouts from […] […]

YAYLADAGI – Elite Syrian forces moved swiftly through the country’s restive north yesterday, raining tank shells on rebellious towns, torching farmland and shooting protesters who tried to tear down a poster of President Bashar Assad. […] […]

A massive wildfire that has claimed more than 30 homes and forced nearly than 10,000 people to evacuate is likely to spread into New Mexico soon, authorities said, threatening more towns and possibly endangering two […] […]