Ras Ajdir (AP): Scuffles erupted yesterday at a transit camp for thousands of migrant workers who fled fighting in Libya and are stranded in neighbouring Tunisia. Tunisian troops pushed back hundreds of angry labourers from Bangladesh...
Mogadishu (AP) :An attempt by Somali security forces to free a Danish family from a pirate gang yesterday turned deadly after the would-be rescuers walked into an ambush, a pirate and a security official said...
Ras Lanouf (AP):With fierce barrages of tank and artillery fire, Moammar Gaddafi's loyalists threw rebels into a frantic retreat from a strategic oil port yesterday in a counteroffensive that reversed...
San Salvador (AP):A Salvadoran court has sentenced 10 gang members and a police officer to serve from four to 30 years in prison in the killing of a French film-maker who made a documentary about a gang in the Central American country....
Kuala Lumpur (AP): The main Christian grouping in Muslim-majority Malaysia said yesterday it was "fed up" with the government's refusal to allow the distribution of tens of thousands of Bibles, saying this was an affront to religious freedoms....
The European Union Council of Ministers has finalised two agreements that end the 16-year trade dispute between the EU and 12 Latin American countries.
BANGKOK (AP): Thai police have made one of their biggest seizures in years of amphetamines in the country's north near the Lao border, yesterday.A police statement said officers in Phitsanulok province, acting on information from a previous operation...
Seoul (AP):South Korea is investigating several diplomats accused of trading government documents for sex with a Chinese woman while posted at the country's consulate in Shanghai, officials disclosed...
Kabul (AP)NATO forces in Afghanistan have seized about 50 Iranian-made rockets intended to aid the Taliban's spring battle campaign, the most powerful illicit weapons ever intercepted en route from the neighbouring state...
Tripoli (AP):After dramatic successes over the past weeks, Libya's rebel movement appears to have hit a wall of overwhelming power from loyalists of Moammar Gaddafi.
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadhafi have launched further air strikes on the rebel-held oil port of Ras Lanuf, in a renewed offensive.
Montreal, Canada (CMC): Haitian presidential candidate Mirlande Manigat has added her voice to the vexing deportation issue, saying that the United States' resumption...
Carl Sutphin was a problem priest who left ministry in the Roman Catholic church just before being charged nearly a decade ago with 14 counts of molestation for sexually abusing six children.
Egypt's military rulers on Monday swore in a new Cabinet that includes new faces in key ministries, responding to protesters' demands that the new government be free of old stalwarts
WASHINGTON (AP):The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the United States and its allies should plan for a no-fly zone over Libya.Democratic Senator John Kerry says the no-fly zone should not go into...
NEW YORK (AP):Scientists in Europe report they were able to diagnose Down's syndrome prenatally by giving a simple blood test to pregnant women, an approach that might one day help them avoid the more extensive...
BARTLETT, NH (AP):This time, Mitt Romney has a clear pitch: I'm the strongest Republican to challenge President Barack Obama on the country's single biggest issue - the economy."He created a deeper recession, and delayed...
WASHINGTON (AP):The State Department yesterday advised Americans not to travel to Yemen and said United States (US) citizens currently in the country should consider leaving.The travel warning also said the department has...
