RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Reports in the New York Times criticizing the Pakistan army and the powerful intelligence agency is a “direct attack” on Pakistan’s security, the army spokesman said on Saturday.
LIMA: Peru’s President-elect Ollanta Humala on Friday suspended his brother from his political coalition after he flew to Russia to meet with Gazprom executives about investing in the Andean country’s gas fields.
BEAUMONT, Texas: A Texas man has been charged with capital murder after police say he intentionally drove his fleeing sport utility vehicle into the patrol car of an officer, who was struck and killed.
WASHINGTON: Three accused Somali pirates were charged in a US court on Friday with the murder, kidnapping and hostage-taking of two American couples in February and could face the death penalty if convicted.
TBILISI: Three Georgian photojournalists were accused on Saturday of passing secret information regarding the movements of President Mikheil Saakashvili to Russian intelligence and were charged with espionage.
SUN VALLEY/LONDON: Rupert Murdoch said on Saturday the decision to close the embattled “News of the World” tabloid was “a collective decision.”
KINSHASA: Fifty-three people were feared dead on Friday after a plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather at Kisangani airport in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese airline operating the flight said.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Authorities in a Nigerian city have banned motorbikes in a bid to curb almost daily attacks by gunmen from a shadowy group , leaving streets deserted on Friday as markets shut and workers stayed at home.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said in a newly disclosed e-mail she sent just days after taking office in 2006 that she felt her circle of trusted advisers was “shrinking daily.”
MADRID: Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba stepped down from government on Friday to concentrate on his coming election campaign to succeed unpopular PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
TBILISI: Georgia on Friday vigorously defended the arrest of three photojournalists suspected of spying, saying they conducted a “serious infiltration of our institutions.”
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GRAND RAPIDS : A man suspected of killing seven people in a bloody rampage ended a hostage standoff with police late on Thursday by shooting himself in the head, Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk said.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday denounced as “extremely irresponsible and unfortunate” comments by the top-ranking US military officer that elements of the Pakistan government had sanctioned the killing of a Pakistani journalist in May, warning that it could hurt cooperation in the fight against militants.
RIYADH: Sri Lanka is planning to raise the minimum age of a housemaid leaving for foreign employment to 30 years, the Foreign Employment Minister Dilan Perera told Arab News from Colombo on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: A second Indian Cabinet member resigned on Thursday over allegations of corruption within government, dealing another blow to embattled Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
NAIROBI, Kenya: A civil rights activist says police have tear gassed several hundred protesters marching toward the offices of Kenya’s president and prime minister to demand action over a growing hunger crisis.
KAMPALA, Uganda: Hundreds of people have marched in Uganda’s capital to demand better health services for pregnant women.
NEW DELHI: India has promised not to link a proposed trade deal with the European Union with limiting its production of generic HIV/AIDS drugs, the United Nations said on Thursday, giving hope to millions of infected patients but underlining the hurdles for the controversial pact.
NAIROBI: Somali pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade at an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, causing a fire that led the pirates to abandon their hijacking attempt, the shipping company said Thursday.
WASHINGTON: In a further shakeup of US defense leaders, the Pentagon’s second-ranking official said Thursday he intends to resign but has agreed to stay on the job until new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta chooses a successor.
ORLANDO, Florida: A Florida judge on Thursday sentenced Casey Anthony to four years in jail for lying to police after her daughter disappeared, but she will be released from custody next week after getting credit for time served and good behavior.
MANILA: Maoist guerrillas burned vehicles, equipment, and housing facilities and stole weapons of guards in two separate attacks on mines operated by private firms in the Philippines, the military said on Thursday.
VIENNA: Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinidis is defending the ban on Gaza flotilla ships leaving his country’s ports, saying it conforms with Greek law.
HAVANA: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s battle with cancer has high stakes not only for his country but for Cuba, which relies on its South American ally for billions of dollars in preferential trade.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police stormed a kindergarten and shot a man carrying a machete who held 30 children and four teachers hostage for six hours Thursday in a tense standoff. The hostages were unharmed.
TBILISI, Georgia: Georgian police say the personal photographer for President Mikhail Saakashvili has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, along with his wife and two other photographers.
ISLAMABAD: The wives and children of Osama Bin Laden detained in Pakistan will only be repatriated once a government-appointed commission investigating the Al-Qaeda leader’s killing allows them to leave, the panel said.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police fired tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government.
MEXICO CITY: Battles between the vicious Zetas gang and other drug cartels led to the discovery of more than 40 bodies in a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday.
LONDON: Rupert Murdoch was expected to fly into London this weekend to deal with an escalating phone-hacking crisis engulfing his British newspapers business.
LONDON: Police arrested David Cameron’s former spokesman on Friday over the scandal that has shut down Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, forcing the prime minister to defend his judgment while promising sweeping new rules for the British press.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's prime minister-elect, Yingluck Shinawatra, sought on Friday to dispel fears of a crippling inflationary backlash from populist promises made in her election campaign, saying she would not stubbornly pursue policies if they cause problems.
KARACHI: Pakistani police and paramilitary troops were ordered on Friday to shoot on sight in its largest city Karachi as up to 85 people were killed in a surge in ethnic and political violence over four days. The government on Friday ordered 1,000 extra troops to deploy in the troubled port city.
KARACHI, Pakistan: Gunmen shot up a bus and opened fire in several neighborhoods of Pakistan’s largest city on Thursday, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed at least 39 people in three days, officials said.
GENEVA: The United Nations is urging the Somali-based militant group Al-Shabaab to pledge it won’t attack humanitarian aid workers so that millions of famished Somalis can be rescued.
LUCKNOW, India: A train hit a stopped bus at a railway crossing in northern India early Thursday, killing 38 people returning from a wedding party, an official said.
KARACHI, Pakistan: Gunmen shot up a bus and opened fire in several neighborhoods of Pakistan’s largest city on Thursday, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed at least 39 people in three days, officials said.
KARACHI: Pakistani forces regained control Saturday over trouble spots in the nation's largest city, where five days of political and ethnic violence killed at least 93 people and forced many to stay at home in fear, an official said.
