Israeli strikes in Mount Lebanon villages kill 28, ministry says
One dead following blasts at Brazil Supreme Court
WASHINGTON : Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to make two weapons, which it could have prepared and ready for delivery as early as 2012, CIA director Leon Panetta said Sunday. "We think they have enough low-enriched uranium for two weapons," Panetta told the ABC network`s "This Week"
OSH : Kyrgyzstan`s new constitution won overwhelming popular support in a referendum, with more than 90 percent of the vote, the country`s electoral commission said Monday as preliminary results rolled in. According to results published by the commission on its website after ballots from
TORONTO : US President Barack Obama Sunday demanded the United Nations and China ramp up pressure on North Korea for its "belligerent behavior" and warned against turning a blind eye to its deadly acts. Using the global stage of a G20 summit here, Obama said the international community
TORONTO : British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply disappointed" after England lost to Germany in its World Cup match, adding he had questions about an English goal which was disallowed. He was talking after playing hookie from economic summit talks in Toronto, Canada, to
KOLKATA: Mystery is intensifying over a Karachi-bound ship intercepted in the Hooghly waters of India with arms and ammunition. The police, Cost Guard and customs searched the ship and found 40 Pakistani war vehicles, four army jeeps, and three containers of arms and ammunition marked
WASHINGTON - CIA chief Leon Panetta said Sunday he thinks Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to make two weapons, and that it would take at least two years to prepare the bombs and a delivery system. "We think they have enough low-enriched uranium for two weapons," Panetta told the ABC
HARGEISA: Authorities were expected to begin counting votes Sunday in the breakaway state of Somaliland, a day after a peaceful presidential election, the electoral board said. "Some of the ballot boxes were brought early this morning to the headquarters of the National Election
PESHAWAR: Pakistan on Sunday launched a process of resettling tens of thousands of tribesmen displaced in a major offensive in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan last year, officials said. Pakistan`s military launched a sweeping offensive into South Waziristan last October aimed
SEOUL: North Korea said on Sunday it was open to inter-Korean military talks to address the sinking of a South Korean warship but urged the United States to cease its involvement in the case. The North, however, renewed a demand that the South first allow Pyongyang to carry out its own
SRINAGAR: Authorities in restive Indian Kashmir ordered a judicial probe on Sunday into the killing of two young men by security forces in a bid to stem protests over their deaths. Police said the two men died on Friday in Sopore, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Kashmir`s summer
SRINAGAR: Authorities in restive Indian Kashmir ordered a judicial probe on Sunday into the killing of two young men by security forces in a bid to stem protests over their deaths. Police said the two men died on Friday in Sopore, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Kashmir`s summer
CONAKRY, June 27, 2010 (AFP) - Guineans headed to the polls Sunday in the west African nation`s first democratic election since independence in 1958, hoping to end half a century of military and civilian dictatorships. Long queues of patient voters built up around the country to take
MITZPE HILA: Thousands of people joined Gilad Shalit`s family for a mass march from northern Israel to Jerusalem on Sunday to mark four years since the young soldier was captured on the Gaza border. Wearing white T-shirts and baseball caps emblazoned with the slogan "Gilad is still
ROME: A simple blood test can give an accurate pointer of when a woman will hit the menopause, according to research to be presented at a fertility conference here on Monday. If confirmed by other scientists, the test devised by Iranian doctors would be a boon for women seeking to plan
BEIJING - An overloaded bus taking mourners to a funeral veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in northern China, killing 11 people and injuring 31, state media reported Sunday. Forty-two people were on the private 19-seat bus heading to the funeral when it careened off
BEIJING - China scrambled Sunday to repair water defences shattered by relentless rain, state media said, after flood-related disasters claimed the lives of 235 people this month. Jiangxi province flood control officials said a major dyke that broke last week as the river running through
RIYADH - Saudi doubts over US-driven sanctions on Iran, the flagging Middle East peace process and Afghanistan will be the focus of King Abdullah`s talks at the White House this week, analysts say. Tuesday`s meeting between President Barack Obama and the 86-year-old sovereign of the
OSH - Kyrgyzstan on Sunday voted on a new constitution aimed at establishing a parliamentary democracy, ignoring warnings that the referendum risked inflaming ethnic tensions after deadly clashes. The interim authorities have defiantly pressed ahead with the referendum despite horrific
TEL AVIV - The top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, arrived in Tel Aviv on Sunday for talks with Israeli military and defence officials, both sides said. "This is a very short visit -- he will meet with Defence Minister (Ehud) Barak and with (Chief of Staff) Gaby Ashkenazi and a
TORONTO - The leaders of the world`s most powerful countries were to pursue talks Sunday on settling their differences over how to nurse the fragile world economy back to health. The G20 nations convened in the eastern Canadian city of Toronto on the heels of a tough-talking G8 summit,