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Taliban assault on Afghanistan police HQ kills 19 (Reuters)
februari 12, 2011by latadmin
Reuters – Taliban suicide bombers killed 19 people, including 17 members of the Afghan security forces, on Saturday in an attack in southern Kandahar province, the...
Pakistani prosecutors accuse Musharraf (AP)
februari 12, 2011by latadmin
AP – A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for ousted military leader Pervez Musharraf on Saturday over allegations he played a role in the 2007 assassination...
Pakistan: US push on detainee ‘counterproductive’ (AP)
februari 12, 2011by latadmin
AP – Any U.S. pressure on Islamabad to release an American held for shooting dead two Pakistanis will be “counterproductive,” a senior government...
Myanmar’s parliament approves all Cabinet nominees
februari 11, 2011by latadmin
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s new military-dominated parliament on Friday unanimously approved all of the president-elect’s 30 Cabinet nominees....
Violence as strike shuts down Pakistan airline (AFP)
februari 11, 2011by latadmin
AFP – Police baton charged Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees on Friday, detaining 20 of them, following violent protests as all of the...
Fears for man who filmed Indonesia mob attack (AFP)
februari 11, 2011by latadmin
AFP – An Indonesian man who risked his life to film a mob brutally lynching members of his minority Islamic sect is in grave danger and has gone into hiding,...
Aussie Farmers, Chinese Miners Vie for Water
februari 11, 2011by latadmin
A decades-long drought has seared the landscape of Western Australia, a state far from the floods that recently battered the eastern part of the country. Deprived of...
Pakistan extends US man’s detention
februari 11, 2011by latadmin
Pakistani police have rejected the self-defence claim of a US citizen accused of murdering two men in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore last month, extending his...
Turkey says 5 flotilla victims shot at close range
februari 11, 2011by latadmin
ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish government inquiry into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American…
U.S. asks WTO to judge two trade spats with China (Reuters)
februari 11, 2011by latadmin
Reuters – The United States said on Friday it had asked the World Trade Organization to decide on two disputes with China, one on restrictions Beijing has imposed...