ISLAMABAD: Former Information Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, a candidate in the by-election for a National Assembly seat, was injured and four people were killed when gunmen opened fire at his election... Full Story
TEHRAN: International pressure for new sanctions against Iran grew on Monday after Tehran announced more moves to expand nuclear fuel production and enrichment plants, heightening Western fears it
TOKYO: Palestinians are weighing indirect peace talks with Israel to be mediated by the United States, Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki said Monday, adding that they should focus on border issues. Echoing
RAMALLAH: Israeli security forces on Monday arrested around 120 Palestinians in the West Bank and a refugee camp in East Jerusalem, said Palestinian sources. Jihad Abu Znaid, Jerusalem’s representative
KIEV: Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich on Monday pressed rival Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat after his slender victory in a presidential election that could tilt the ex-Soviet state
BEIJING: Officials say they’ve found yet another case where large amounts of tainted milk powder from the country’s 2008 scandal that should have been destroyed were instead repackaged. China
TEHRAN: Iran has launched two production lines to build unmanned aircraft with surveillance and attack capabilities, the defense minister announced Monday. It also announced that Iran would soon
BELFAST: One of Northern Ireland’s deadliest paramilitary groups has dumped all of its weapons in front of independent witnesses, the militants and the commission overseeing the province’s disarmament
WASHINGTON — When the National Tea Party Convention concluded in Nashville, Tennessee this weekend it was clear that the Tea Partiers were propelled by two competing claims — a principled commitment
MUMBAI: Leaders from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) met the head of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena on Sunday pleading with him not to oppose
SAN JOSE: Costa Ricans have elected their first woman president as the ruling party candidate won in a landslide after campaigning to continue free market policies in Central America’s most stable
SEOUL: North Korea warned South Korea that any attempt to bring down the communist country would draw “strong measures” from its military, a threat issued Monday even as Pyongyang embarked on a flurry
Thailand braces for protests BANGKOK: The Thai government has begun to deploy at least 20,000 extra security forces across the country ahead of a court ruling on the fortune
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s defeated presidential candidate was hauled away by military police from his office Monday and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving
