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Thursday, 24 May 2012
PROTESTERS returned to the streets of Myanmar's main city Yangon for a second day yesterday, defying a police request to disperse as they explore the extent of freedoms under the reformist regime.The country's first major demonstrations...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
OPENING a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX yesterday became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station."Three, two, one and launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as NASA...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
NATO leaders agreed yesterday to hand Afghan forces the lead for security from mid-2013 as they rush to end the unpopular war and ensure Afghanistan can ward off the Taliban after foreign troops leave.In a Chicago summit declaration, US President...
Monday, 21 May 2012
FACEBOOK co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan last Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.The 28-year-old billionaire's wedding took place a day after Facebook...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
ISRAEL demolished dozens of Palestinian homes, water cisterns and farm buildings built with European funds in 2011, and over 100 such structures are at risk, aid groups said in a report yesterday. The figures, compiled by a group of local and...
Sunday, 4 March 2012
More than 64 per centvoted in Iran pollTEHRAN: More than 64 per cent of registered voters turned out for Iran's parliamentary poll. Mostafa Mohammad Najar said 135 candidates had so far won seats in the 290-member parliament, with results in larger...
THE UN atomic agency's board will be looking for a way out of its impasse with Iran after two fruitless visits probing Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons drive, in a meeting starting Monday.In a report sent to International Atomic Energy Agency...
SYRIAN forces bombarded parts of the shattered city of Homs anew yesterday and blocked the first Red Cross aid meant for civilians stranded for weeks without food and fuel in the former rebel stronghold.The renewed government assault came a day...
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Russian TV defersPutin filmMOSCOW: One of Russia's pro-Kremlin channels cancelled at the last-minute yesterday a showing of a German-made biopic about Vladimir Putin over concerns its broadcast would be against the spirit of election rules. NTV,...
AFRICAN Union and Somali government troops seized control of an al-Shabaab insurgent base in the north of the capital yesterday, a move the AU troops said would reduce the rebels' capacity to launch attacks in the city.The capture of the Maslah...
A BOMB blast hit an anti-US protest in northern Yemen yesterday, injuring at least 22 people, a rebel group that controls much of the north of the country said.In a statement, the leader of the Houthi movement said the bombing took place in the...
THE captain of a giant cruise liner which capsized off Italy, killing at least 25 people, could be in danger if he attends a pre-trial hearing today into the disaster, his lawyer said.Prosecutors have accused captain Francesco Schettino of causing...
IRAN yesterday voted for a new parliament in the first nationwide elections since a bitterly contested 2009 poll that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power, posing a new test of his support among conservatives.The elections, to fill the...
NEW York City's Police Department is facing mounting criticism of its secret surveillance of Muslims across the Northeast, with civil liberties groups demanding an investigation and New Jersey's governor accusing the NYPD of arrogantly acting as if...
EGYPTIAN newspapers angrily accused the ruling military yesterday of caving in to US pressure to allow foreign NGO workers, including a number of Americans, to escape trial on charges of illegal funding.One of them also accused the Supreme Council...
SAUDI Arabia's push to improve ties with Iraq is part of a drive to convince it to abandon the Syrian president, despite the strong influence in Baghdad of Riyadh's foe Tehran, experts say.In a marked warming, Riyadh has named a non-resident envoy...
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has warned that a premature attack on Iran would allow it to play the "victim" in the nuclear crisis just days before key talks with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.In some of his toughest comments yet on Tehran...
THE Arab Spring uprisings last year brought no increase in the number of women in the region's parliaments, a UN report said yesterday.At the end of 2011, women accounted for only 10.7 percent of lawmakers in Arab states, barely the same number as...
AN estimated 910,000 lives were saved worldwide over six years thanks to better collaboration between health services to protect people with the AIDS virus from tuberculosis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.!The WHO said there had...
Sunday, 26 February 2012
RUSSIAN protest leader Alexei Navalny led thousands through the streets of Vladimir Putin's native city yesterday in protest against his likely return to the Kremlin in March 4 polls.The demonstration was called a day before thousands more hoped to...
