Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, dropped a bombshell in his recent interview. Russia has been working on a new military doctrine for a few years. The old one is outdated and unsuitable. The work is difficult because d...
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After much public rage over the Mangalore pub attack where girls were beaten up by a fringe group called Ram Sene, a local court granted bail to all the 27 accused arrested in the case. There was another shocker by the National Commission of Women...
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Sri Lanka's president has promised safe passage for 250,000 civilians trapped by fighting in the north-east. Mahinda Rajapaksa urged the Tamil Tiger rebels to ensure the free movement of civilians from the region, but the government has rul...
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Russia welcomes U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to review policy in Afghanistan and is ready to cooperate, including on supply routes for NATO forces, Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday. "Let us hope the new U.S. administration w...
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By AFPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2009 - President Barack Obama on Thursday called for the closing of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within one year. In a series of executive orders concerning the treatment of detainees...
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KOLKATA, (India) : India sealed part of its border with Bangladesh on Thursday amid fears the latest outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus had spread to new areas, officials said. Authorities in West Bengal state have killed about 10,000 birds in t...
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Wed, Nov 19, 2008: Time Warner Inc's Time Inc, the world's largest magazine company, is expected to cut more than 250 jobs from the payroll, as part of its overall plan to slash 600 jobs, the New York Post said. In October, the company planned...
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The U.S.-led coalition said Thursday it had killed more than 30 insurgents in a battle in eastern Afghanistan, fighters an Afghan governor said were responsible for an attack that killed 10 French troops this week. Officials announced the deaths of s...
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Twin Taliban suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest weapons complex killed at least 59 people Thursday, heightening the turmoil following Pervez Musharraf's ouster as president. The ruling coalition, made up of traditional rivals who were united p...
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The jetliner that crashed in Madrid abandoned a first takeoff attempt because of an air gauge that showed overheating, but experts said it was unlikely the gauge was a factor in the accident that killed 153 people. As investigators began trying to...
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A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people, the Interior Ministry said. Nineteen of the 178 people on board were seriously ...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite. ...
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In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads ...
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ALGIERS : A bomb attack east of Algiers killed 43 people and wounded 45 on Tuesday, the Algerian interior ministry said, in one of the bloodiest incidents in years in the OPEC member state. A ministry statement carried by the official APS news age...
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Ahmedabad : Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Mufti Abu Bashr, the alleged mastermind of Ahmedabad blasts, has "confessed" to his involvement, Gujarat police claimed on Tuesday, adding top SIMI leader Safdar Nagori was allegedly a key conspirator and may ...
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