International

Al Qaeda calls for attacks inside United States

13.09.2013 16:42
DUBAI - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al- Zawahri urged small-scale attacks inside the United States to "bleed America economically," adding he hoped eventually to see a more significant strike, according to the SITE monitoring service. In an audio speech released online a day after the 12th anniversary...

4 Sentenced to Death in Rape Case That Riveted India

13.09.2013 16:35
NEW DELHI -- Four men convicted of a brutal gang rape were sentenced Friday to die by hanging, a decision met with satisfaction on the part of the victim's parents and triumphant cheers from the crowd outside the courthouse, where some held up makeshift nooses and pictures of hanging bodies. The...

Iran reduces enriched uranium stockpile

13.09.2013 16:29
Iran says it has significantly reduced its stocks of 20 percent-enriched uranium by converting it to reactor fuel. The announcement appeared aimed at easing Western concerns over Iran's continuing production of 20 percent uranium, which is enriched to a higher level that that used to fuel most...

'Escape From The Taliban' author executed by Afghan militants, police say

06.09.2013 17:27
KABUL, Afghanistan - Author Sushmita Banerjee, whose dramatic memoirs about marrying an Afghan man and escaping the Taliban were turned into a Bollywood movie, was shot dead outside her home on Thursday. Shah Wali, head of the Afghan Police Criminal Investigation Department for the eastern...

Egypt's largest Christian community threatened as Islamists take over town

06.09.2013 17:19
DALGA, Egypt - The Coptic Orthodox priest would only talk to his visitor after hiding from the watchful eyes of the bearded Muslim outside, who sported a pistol bulging from under his robe. So Father Yoannis moved behind a wall in the charred skeleton of an ancient monastery to describe how it...

France's Hollande seeks coalition in favour of Syria action

06.09.2013 17:16
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: Leaders of G20 nations on Friday agreed chemical weapons had been used in Syria but disagreed on who was responsible for last month's attack, French President Francois Hollande said. Hollande, whose country has pushed with the United States for military strikes to punish...

SKorea bans fish from NE Japan on radiation fears

06.09.2013 17:12
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea announced Friday that it was banning all fish imports from along Japan's northeastern coast because of what officials called growing public worry over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power...

U.S. Drone Strike Kills 6 in Pakistan, Fueling Anger

06.09.2013 17:04
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least six people were killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal areas early Friday, according to government officials and local news reports. The strike was directed at a house in the Ghulam Khan area of the North Waziristan tribal...

U.S. Orders Its Diplomats Out of Lebanon

06.09.2013 16:58
WASHINGTON — The State Department on Friday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to leave Lebanon due to security concerns as the Obama administration and Congress debate military strikes on neighboring Syria. In a new travel warning for Lebanon, the department said it had instructed nonessential...

Chemical weapons and Syria: we need evidence-based, international justice

31.08.2013 23:49
Given the horrific events unfolding in Syria, it is understandable that there are calls for something to be done in response to what John Kerry has rightly condemned as a "moral obscenity" . Yet in circumstances where our knowledge is incomplete about what happened, who was responsible and how...
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