TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that the West should drop its “bullying” stance against his country and insisted that sanctions imposed over its nuclear programme were having no…
CAIRO: An Egyptian military tribunal yesterday acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test…
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral near the northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 30 others, police and…
VADIA: Eight young women whose mothers are sex workers were married in a so-called “village of prostitutes” in India yesterday under a plan to save them from being pushed into…
BRATISLAVA: A leftist party led by one of the few leading politicians in Slovakia to escape voter anger over a major corruption scandal has been propelled back into power in…
WASHINGTON: Rick Santorum overwhelmingly won the Kansas presidential caucuses, hoping to blunt front-runner Mitt Romney’s momentum in the grinding campaign for the nomination to oppose President Barack Obama in the…
KALPANI BASE: The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly…
PARIS: When halal butcher Lahcen Hakki went to stock up at Paris’ main meat market last month, he was surprised to run into Nicolas Sarkozy and quickly managed to snag…
GAZA: Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed 14 Palestinians, including a militant group chief, medics said yesterday, in the deadliest flareup in more than three years. The Israeli military said…
MEXICO CITY: The slayings of four youths whose bodies were cut to pieces and left in plastic bags has horrified the central Mexico city of Cuernavaca, calling up memories of…