Taliban launch major attack on downtown Kabul
Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms
Read More →Two arrests after UK fighter jets escort Pakistani plane
Police said the men were detained on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after the plane was diverted to Stansted airport outside London
Read More →British spy services under pressure over soldier’s murder
The two suspects were previously known to the intelligence services but were reportedly assessed as not posing a deadly threat
Read More →Stockholm police call in reinforcements as cars torched
The riots have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 percent of the population
Read More →UK emergency committee meets over slaying
Prime Minister David Cameron cut short a visit to Paris to fly back for a meeting of the government’s emergency response committee
Read More →Anti-Islamist protests flare following London attack
Two people were arrested as the police attempted to quell anti-Islamist disorder
Read More →US formally takes responsibility for killing Awlaki
The United States formally said for the first time on Wednesday that it had killed radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three other US citizens in anti-terror strikes abroad.
Read More →Deadly tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb
An unknown number of children were feared trapped inside the Plaza Towers school
Read More →Anger as Afghan MPs halt women’s bill debate
after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teaching
Read More →Russia catches ‘American CIA agent’ in Moscow
Photographs published by state English language television RT showed a baseball-capped Fogle being held to the ground face down and having his hands put behind his back for the arrest.
Read More →Associated Press protests US seizure of phone records
The news agency said the US Justice Department had secretly obtained two months of phone records from its news operations, calling it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.”
Read More →Bombs kill four, wound 20 on Pakistan election eve
Violence on the eve of a landmark general election threatened by the Taliban with suicide attacks
Read More →Kurdish rebels begin pullout from Turkey
A major step towards ending a decades-long conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people
Read More →Bangladesh Islamist sentenced to hang for war genocide
The 61-year-old Kamaruzzaman is the fourth person to be convicted by the much-criticised International Crimes Tribunal
Read More →Three Emiratis held after deadly Tanzanian church bombing
Five Tanzanians have also been arrested following the Sunday attack on a packed church in the northern city of Arusha that killed three people.
Read More →Pakistan election candidate shot dead
Campaigning has been marred by Taliban threats and attacks, which have killed 62 people since April 11
Read More →Pakistan prosecutor in Bhutto, Mumbai cases shot dead
The assassination comes just days before Pakistan holds historic general elections on May 11
Read More →Pakistan court remands Musharraf over Bhutto killing
Musharraf is already under a two-week house arrest period over the sacking of judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007
Read More →The brothers Tsarnaev: suspected Boston bombers
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspected of bombing the Boston marathon, appear to hail from Russia’s war-torn Chechnya
Read More →Many feared dead in US fertilizer plant blast
Major explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant destroys nearby buildings, causes deaths and injuries
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