TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday urged Washington to unblock Iranian assets, as his US counterpart Barack Obama warned of “consequences” after Tehran’s dismissal of a UN-brokered
PESHAWAR: Twenty people were killed including a suicide bomber who struck a court in Peshawar on Thursday. Blood, flesh and shattered window glass littered the ground outside the court building,
RAMALLAH: Palestinian Minister of Social Affairs Majidah Al-Masri said on Thursday that 423 Palestinian children are currently living in what she described as “difficult and painful circumstances”
GAZA CITY: Three Palestinians were injured when Israeli warplanes raided two smuggling tunnels and a Hamas training camp in the southern Gaza Strip early Thursday, witnesses and official sources said.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Sayed Yousaf Raza Gilani, who spent seven years in jail on account of giving jobs to men from his constituency during his tenure as the speaker of the National Assembly from
PUNE: Army Chief of Staff Gen. Deepak Kapoor described Pakistan as being in “a state of decline” – one that continues to export terror even as it is fighting terrorism within. He also said the situation
ADDIS ABABA: An Ethiopian court on Thursday convicted 26 people who were accused of taking part in an alleged coup plot earlier this year and acquitted five others. Judge Adem Ibrahim said most
KABUL: Veteran Afghan leader Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president on Thursday, pledging to fight graft and take control of his country’s security before his five-year term ends, after a fraud-marred
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines: Philippine Muslim rebels denounced Thursday the violent dispersal by policemen of dozens of Muslim dwellers in Pasay City that killed 3 people and injured many others.
