COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s former army chief walked free from jail on Monday with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who appears to have bowed to growing international demands that he release his
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin named loyal allies to top posts in Russia’s new government on Monday, taking a firm grip on economic policy and limiting Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s ability t
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be charged over his role in a street protest against the government last month, police and Anwar’s aides said on Monday, adding to tensio
LILLE, France: French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an inquiry into allegations of group rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a s
CHICAGO: NATO leaders gathered in Chicago yesterday to chart a path out of Afghanistan as war-weary Western nations seek to ensure Afghanistan can hold Taleban at bay when foreign troops withdraw.<
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered the early release from jail of his highest-profile political rival Sarath Fonseka, the president’s spokesman said yesterday, in an appa
Pakistan Interior Minister Rahman Malik has said that Pakistan is engaged with US and NATO in the light of guidelines set by the Parliament that was endorsed by the National Security Committee and is
BELGRADE: Serbians voted for a new president yesterday in a run-off with the incumbent Boris Tadic, who vowed to lead the country into the European Union, set for a victory over nationalist challenger
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter yesterday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications offici
