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Syria is now in a full-scale civil war, UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said, as the United States accused Russia of supplying the regime of Bashar al-Assad with attack helicopters. The UN peacekeeping chief told reporters that there was an escalation in violence in Syria as Assad’s forces seek to regain control of “large chunks […]
The euro was poised for its biggest daily rally against the dollar in almost eight months on Monday, after Spain secured help for its debt-stricken banks and as Chinese economic data was not as bad as the market had feared. The euro zone decided to lend its fourth-largest economy up to 100 billion euros ($125 […]
Rebels and regime troops clashed in a district of the Syrian capital as scores of protests were held across the strife-torn country and more than 20 people killed on Friday, monitors said. Clashes broke out in Kfar Sousa, a Damascus district where anti-regime sentiment is strong, while explosions rocked the Mazzeh and al Qaeda neighbourhoods, […]
The UN nuclear watchdog held fresh talks with Iran Friday in Vienna, where it was expected to push for access to a suspected testing site near Tehran. The agency’s chief inspector Herman Nackaerts and deputy director general Rafael Grossi were meeting Iran’s envoy to the agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, to try to get greater access […]
Pentagon Chief Leon Panetta said Wednesday that the US would continue to attack al Qaeda in Pakistan following the killing of the group’s number two Abu Yahya al-Libi. “We have made it very clear that we are going to continue to defend ourselves,” Secretary of Defence Panetta said when asked about drone strikes in Pakistan […]
The United States will shift the majority of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of a new strategic focus on Asia, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told a summit in Singapore on Saturday. The decision to deploy more ships to the Pacific Ocean, along with expanding a network of military partnerships in […]
Israel on Thursday began handing over the bodies of 91 Palestinians who were killed during anti-Israeli attacks, some of whom died over 40 years ago, officials on both sides said. The transfer began before dawn on Thursday when Israel formally gave the bodies to the Palestinians at a location near the West Bank city of […]
UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday of a “catastrophic civil war” in Syria after the massacre of more than 100 civilians in the town of Houla that sparked global horror and outrage. “The massacres of the sort seen last weekend could plunge Syria into a catastrophic civil war, a civil war from which the country […]
Taliban deny reports regarding the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani The Taliban on Wednesday denied reports of the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Pakistani-linked Haqqani network which is regularly blamed for major attacks in Afghanistan. “We strongly dismiss the reports that Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. He’s alive,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP, […]
The chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party and one of his deputies were indicted Monday for alleged crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 independence war against Pakistan. A special tribunal set up by the government to deal with charges of crimes against humanity indicted Matiur Rahman Nizami, the chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, on […]
UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan said he was “shocked” at the weekend’s “tragic events” in the central Syrian town of Houlaas he arrived in Damascus on Monday for talks with top officials. He said those responsible for the killing in Houla of at least 108 people on Friday and Saturday must be held accountable […]
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta vowed Sunday not to let the United States be “gouged” by Pakistan on the price it charges for overland deliveries of American military supplies to Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the land route to US supplies in November as punishment for a botched US air strike that mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, […]
