Norwegian police have admitted for the first time that they could have responded faster to a massacre at a youth camp last July. Anders Behring Breivik opened fire on young activists gathered on Utoeya island last summer, killing 69 people. [...]
(Reuters) – Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on Wednesday, as the United States tried to contain fallout from a massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by an American soldier. A motorcycle bomb went off in [...]
(Reuters) – Suspected insurgents opened fire on Tuesday on senior Afghan investigators of the massacre of 16 civilians by a lone U.S. soldier, Afghan officials said, just hours after the Taliban threatened to behead American troops to avenge the killings. [...]
A US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a night-time rampage acted alone, US officials say. The Pentagon said in a media briefing that the killings, in the early hours of Sunday, were “tragic” but insisted it was [...]
(Reuters) – With a minute of silence, tolling bells and prayers, Japan will on Sunday mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin said Russia is concerned about the “growing threat” of an attack on Iran over its nuclear program and warned that the consequences would be “truly catastrophic.” In an article on foreign policy written before a [...]
US and South Korean forces have begun military exercises on the Korean peninsula amid warnings from Pyongyang that the drills should not go ahead. The annual exercises, known as Key Resolve, have brought hundreds of extra US troops into South [...]
NEW YORK: New York City’s mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Monday over efforts by the city’s police department to monitor Muslim student groups. The Associated Press revealed over the weekend that in recent years, the [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran Thursday held an informal session, a day ahead of the trilateral summit, aimed at bringing peace and stability and ensuring security in the region. President Asif Ali Zardari, Afghan President Hamid Karzai [...]
WASHINGTON: Obama administration Monday proposed $2.4 billion in financial aid to Pakistan for the fiscal year 2012-13 while unveiling its annual budget of $3.8 trillion that calls for tax hikes on the rich. Of this, $2.2 billion is in assistance [...]
TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the Islamic Republic would soon announce “very important” achievements in the nuclear field, state TV reported. He was speaking on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Tens of thousands of Iranians [...]
The toughest place to be a train driver All for the want of a winter horseshoe Could coffee become India’s top drink? Making a living from Mexico’s waste The FBI has released its investigative file on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. [...]
MANILA: At least 43 people were killed when a powerful earthquake triggered landslides, collapsed homes and smashed bridges across the central Philippines on Monday, authorities said. The 6.8-magntiude quake hit a narrow strait between the heavily populated island provinces of [...]
Just months after the killings of Osama bin Laden and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S. intelligence officials are trying to assess just how dangerous al-Qaida still is. They seem to agree that core al-Qaida — the group that launched the [...]
A leaked plan from the German government proposes a eurozone “budget commissioner” to take control of Greece’s tax and spending, reports say. The Financial Times, which has a copy of the plan, calls it an “extraordinary extension” of EU control. [...]
The illegal gambling game in Brazil known as jogo do bicho, or the animal game, occupies an important, if shady, place in popular culture. In the run-up to Carnival in February, Rio de Janeiro police have been targeting alleged gambling [...]
Spain’s unemployment figure passed the five million mark in the last quarter of 2011, official figures show. The National Statistics Institute said 5.3 million people were out of work at the end of December, up from 4.9 million in the [...]
Despite areas of difference and rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, ties between the two countries based on common interests have developed significantly. Both Russia and Iran are both major energy exporters, they have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus. They [...]
By JOHN WENDLE / TIME Magazine A large crystal chandelier cast a weak glow over U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin as they talked up the results of the envoys’ two days of meetings [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is paying six times as much to send war supplies to troops in Afghanistan through alternate routes after Pakistan’s punitive decision in November to close border crossings to NATO convoys, the Associated Press has learned. Islamabad [...]
