Friday 10 July, 2009
Security forces began clashing with protesters shortly after they began massing in the streets of Tehran on Thursday evening, as an initially festive demonstration quickly turned grim, witnesses saidFriday 10 July, 2009
Pakistan on Thursday said the objectives of the anti-Taliban operation in the Swat valley had been “achieved” and the...Friday 10 July, 2009
Attacks in Baghdad and a city in northern Iraq killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, the worst violence since Iraq celebrated...Friday 10 July, 2009
An explosion outside a school south of the Afghan capital on Thursday killed at least 25 people, including 15 students, officials said, the worst toll from a single blast in a year.Friday 10 July, 2009
Chinese President Hu Jintao, forced to abandon a G-8 summit in Italy by ethnic violence in restive Xinjiang, said that maintaining...Friday 10 July, 2009
Britain’s most senior policeman ordered an inquiry on Thursday into reports that journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s bestselling...Friday 10 July, 2009
US President Barack Obama took a subtle swipe at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the G-8 by praising the leader of the state for his “integrity”. Obama praised President Giorgio Napolitano, saying that he enjoyed the “admiration of the Italian people”.Friday 10 July, 2009
Given its history of financial meltdown and subsequent recovery, Sweden, which assumed the presidency of the European Union on July 1st, is the ideal country to orchestrate the reform of Europe’s financial landscape.Friday 10 July, 2009
James Ensor seems to have slipped between the cracks. An innovative Belgian artist who was influential in shaping expressionism and surrealism, he is often overlooked.Friday 10 July, 2009
The Soviet Union was a prison, especially for the lively minded, whose travel abroad and activities at home were dictated by the Communist Party’s cultural commissars.Friday 10 July, 2009
On The remote island of Hirta, in the St Kilda archipelago beyond the Outer Hebrides, live hundreds of wild Soay sheep. Over the past 20 years biologists studying...
Thursday 09 July, 2009
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s decision to cut short his visit and abruptly leave the G-8 summit on Wednesday morning to attend more pressing problems caused by the Uighur unrest has taken many countries, including India...Thursday 09 July, 2009
At least 45 militants were on Wednesday killed in two separate US drone strikes in Pakistan’s unruly tribal belt in the latest such attack against terrorist bases even as Taliban commander...Thursday 09 July, 2009
Cyberattacks that have crippled the websites of several major American and South Korean Government agencies since the July 4 appear to have been launched by a hostile group or Government, South Korea’s main spy agency said on Wednesday.Thursday 09 July, 2009
Indonesia’s voters handed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono a second five-year term on Wednesday, placing their faith in his firm hand on the economic tiller and his promises to quicken the pace of reform.Thursday 09 July, 2009
A British Opposition politician has accused the Government and intelligence agents of colluding in the torture of a British terrorism suspect whose interrogation was outsourced to Pakistan.
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