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Published:Monday | May 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP):MILITANTS ATTACKED a naval aviation base in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi late Sunday, rocking the base with explosions and battling commandos sent in to subdue the attackers, security officials said.At least two injured...

Published:Monday | May 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

OAKLAND, California (AP):THE HOUR of the apocalypse came quietly and went the same way - leaving those who believed that Saturday evening would mark the world's end confused, or more faithful...

Published:Monday | May 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP):AN ICELANDIC volcano was flinging ash, smoke and steam miles (kilometres) into the air Sunday, dropping a thick layer of grey soot in an eruption far more forceful - but likely far less impactful - than the one that grounded...

Published:Sunday | May 22, 2011 | 6:26 PM

UN Security Council envoys have urged North Sudan to withdraw its troops immediately from the contested Abyei region on the border with South Sudan.

Published:Sunday | May 22, 2011 | 12:37 PM

United States President, Barack Obama, has said that he would launch an operation similar to the one which killed Osama Bin Laden if another militant leader was found in Pakistan.

Published:Saturday | May 21, 2011 | 5:55 PM

Iceland's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, has started erupting.

Published:Saturday | May 21, 2011 | 11:26 AM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not accepting a call by US President Barack Obama for peace with the Palestinians based on borders drawn up in 1967.

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Train bombing kills 2, injures 9YANGON (AP):A bomb exploded yesterday on a passenger train near Myanmar's capital, killing two people and injuring nine, state radio and television reported.A brief announcement on the evening news said the explosion...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WikiLeaks' Australian founder, Julian Assange, who enraged Washington by publishing thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, has been given a peace award for "exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights".

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

KABUL (AP):Hundreds of protesters, angered by an overnight NATO raid that they believed had killed four civilians, clashed yesterday with security forces on the streets of a northern Afghan city.

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2011 | 2:30 PM

The trans-Atlantic gap separating the U.S. and French justice systems and moral codes is as wide as the ocean itself — appalling a nation witnessing the unraveling fortunes of a favorite son, jailed.

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2011 | 10:16 AM

Dominique Strauss Khan, the accused chief of the International Monetary Fund has been put on suicide watch in New York’s notorious Rikers Island prison.

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SAN BENITO (AP):Guatemala declared a 30-day state of emergency for the northern Peten region following the brutal massacre of 27 people at a cattle ranch.

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SKOPJE (AP):Macedonian police say they have arrested eight people for alleged involvement in an international human-trafficking ring.Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska says the Macedonian suspects are accused of taking 78 people from Asia and Africa...

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL, (AP): Hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied yesterday near a red-light district in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brothels, with some unsuccessfully attempting to set themselves on fire....

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Manila (AP): The Philippines says a Filipino seafarer has been found dead on a ship that was attacked by pirates at anchor in of Benin. The Philippine foreign affairs department said it's not clear...

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM

YANGON (AP):Myanmar is releasing more than 14,600 prisoners under a clemency programme that includes just a few political prisoners, one of them a hip-hop singer.Prison Department Director General Zaw Win said most of the convicts, including 2,166...

Published:Monday | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The fierce combat in Libya has unleashed a once-hidden arsenal of portable anti-aircraft missiles that the government fears could easily be siphoned off to terrorist groups, giving rise to a potential threat...

Published:Monday | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SENEGAL, Dakar, (AP):The African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released last Wednesday shows that it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every day, a rate equal to 48 per hour.

Published:Monday | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ZURICH (AP): Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected calls to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for non-residents. Zurich's cantonal voters by about a 4-to-1...

Published:Monday | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

GOLAN HEIGHTS, Majdal Shams, (AP): Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters yesterday along three hostile borders, including the frontier with Syria, leaving 16 people dead and dozens more wounded in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations marking a Palestinian day...

Published:Monday | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

TRINIDAD (CMC): Twenty journalists from 16 Caribbean countries will tomorrow begin a three-day training workshop covering natural resources management and conservation.It is being organised ...

Published:Monday | May 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP): Osama bin Laden cut himself off from direct access to the Internet during his final years in Pakistan as he attempted to elude the CIA. But the terror group he founded has been able to seize...

Published:Saturday | May 14, 2011 | 11:39 AM

The US has failed to recognise Libya's National Transitional Council as the country's legitimate government.

Published:Friday | May 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A former vice-mayor of China's wealthy resort city of Hangzhou was sentenced to death yesterday on corruption charges, state media reported, one of the harshest sentences handed down to a high-level Chinese...

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