International

KFC knows no boundaries as Palestinians smuggle food via tunnels

Fares Akram The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here — more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egyp......read more

1998 Lankan crash ‘victim’ still alive

A Sri Lankan woman thought to be dead in the passenger airline that disappeared in 1998 has been found to be alive. It turned out that the woman was not a passenger but her national identity card was ......read more

15 killed in twin mosque blasts

At least 15 people were killed and about 50 others injured when two blasts ripped through two mosques in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan Friday, officials said. The blast......read more

PML-N gets notice over display of tiger during poll rally

A Pakistani court Friday sought responses from the PML-N and wildlife and environment authorities by June 21 over the alleged violation of laws using endangered white tigers during the recent poll cam......read more

US treasury dept knew of IRS inquiry in 2012: Official

Jonathan Weisman The Treasury Department’s inspector-general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted conservat......read more

Syrian hackers break into the Financial Times

Nicole Perlroth The website and several Twitter accounts belonging to The Financial Times were hacked Friday by the Syrian Electronic Army in a continuing campaign that has aimed at an array of media ......read more

Srinivasan gets US Senate panel approval

Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan inched closer to scripting history as the first South Asian judge after a key Senate committee confirmed his nomination to the DC Circuit Court, America’s second hi......read more

Sari makes dry cleaners in US shudder

After Hurricane Sandy made Tanya Aeya evacuate her apartment in the West Village, she returned to discover that her clothes had been sitting in water for three weeks. “The embroidery and all the metal......read more

Amend law to include Sikhs, Hindus in hate crime victims: US to FBI

Meeting one of the long pending demands of Sikhs and Hindus in the US, Attorney General Eric Holder has recommended widening the FBI’s mandate to include the two communities among victims of growing h......read more

16 killed as car bomb in Kabul targets NATO convoy

A suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul today, killing 16 people including six NATO personnel and two children in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year. T......read more

19 injured in Nepal plane crash

A Nepal Airlines Aircraft carrying 19 people including an infant had a miraculous escape when it fell into a river near Jomsom along Tibet border Wednesday morning. The accident occurred as the Twin O......read more

Gunmen abduct Sarabjit's lawyer, son, free them later

Pakistani lawyer who represented Sarabjit Singh, Awais Sheikh, was allegedly kidnapped along with his 29-year-old son Shahrukh on Thursday and later released. “Four unknown gunmen” intercepted them a......read more

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IRS Scandal

IRS REVEALS The IRS says it subjected Tea Party-affiliated groups to additional scrutiny based solely on the name and stated goals of the organisation. Often, those groups were asked invasive question......read more

Obama backs bill to protect media

On Thursday President Obama promised to seek “a balance” between national security and a need to protect freedom of the press at a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Res......read more