Monday, June 25, 2012

Al Qaeda using Arab Spring nations as base to train terrorists: UK spy chief

Al Qaeda using Arab Spring nations as base to train terrorists: UK spy chief


Al Qaeda using Arab Spring nations as base to train terrorists: UK spy chief

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 10:11 PM PDT

Al Qaeda militants are using the countries which toppled their leaders in the Arab Spring as bases to train radical Western youths for potential attacks on Britain, the chief of the MI5 Security Servi...


At least 18 killed in Uganda landslide

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 11:34 AM PDT

At least 18 people were killed in eastern Uganda on Monday after a landslide buried several settlements in a coffee-growing area on the slopes of Mount Elgon straddling the Kenyan border, the Uganda R...


Arizona immigration law partially struck down by US Supreme Court

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 11:26 AM PDT

The US Supreme Court threw out key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants on Monday but said a much-debated portion could go forward on checking the status of suspects who might appea...


Egypt's Morsi must co-rule with, confront army: Analysts

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 09:13 AM PDT

Egypt's president-elect Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's winning candidate, benefits from unprecedented electoral legitimacy, but analysts say his leadership will be limited by the entrenched p...


Seven Pakistani soldiers 'beheaded' by Afghan militants

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 07:57 AM PDT

Pakistan said on Monday that seven soldiers were beheaded by Islamist militants who infiltrated from Afghanistan, lashing out at Kabul over cross-border attacks.


Nepal Prime Minister refuses to step down as crisis deepens

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 07:12 AM PDT

Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, who was shown black flags on his arrival in Kathmandu from Brazil, refused to step down on Monday, saying he will not bow to pressure from political parties.


Man threw wife from moving car on highway

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Washington state authorities say a man shoved his wife from a moving car on a highway and later attacked a state trooper.


Over 8 lakh people affected by drought in China

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:58 AM PDT

About eight lakh people have been struggling for drinking water in a central Chinese province that was hit by drought early this month, authorities said on Monday.


Bus crashes off bridge in South Africa, kills 19

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:47 AM PDT

Paramedics say that a bus has plunged off a bridge in South Africa, killing at least 19 people and injuring 55. The bus crashed through aluminum barriers and fell several meters (feet) into a ravine. ...


Egypt's Morsy Keen To Renew Long-Severed Iran Ties

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:37 AM PDT

Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohammed Morsi has said he wants to restore long-severed ties with Tehran to create a strategic "balance" in the region, in an interview published on Monday with Iran'...


Bees sting 76 monks in Thai temple, some slip into coma

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:15 AM PDT

More than 70 monks have been hospitalised after they were stung by bees at a temple in northern Thailand, with some slipping into coma, reports said on Monday. Large swarms of bees from several hives ...


Saudi beheads citizen for murder

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 04:28 AM PDT

Saudi authorities on Monday beheaded one of its citizens after he was convicted of shooting dead two fellow Saudis, the interior ministry announced in a statement carried by state news agency SPA. Mus...


Russian woman throws children from 15th floor

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:34 AM PDT

A woman in Moscow killed her two children by throwing them from a balcony of the 15th floor, investigators said.


Buddha attacked by Taliban gets a facelift in Pakistan

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:28 AM PDT

When the Taliban blew the face off a towering, 1,500-year-old rock carving of Buddha in northwest Pakistan almost five years ago, it fell to an intrepid Italian archaeologist to come to the rescue. ...


Woman barred from entering UK college for not removing veil

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 03:23 AM PDT

A Muslim mother was turned away from a parents' evening at a British college as she refused to remove her full-face veil, an incident that left her feeling humiliated.

Pakistan's Dr Afridi, from CIA asset to solitary cell

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:31 AM PDT

There can be few jail cells in Pakistan as lonely as the one occupied by Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden.


In a troubled country, still time for high society

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 01:24 AM PDT

Can celebrity and fashion save Pakistan from its dark image? That's the proposition of Hello! Pakistan, a glossy new magazine that has opened a new window into the lives of the country's gilded elite,...


For bullied bus monitor, a windfall to ease the pain

Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:05 AM PDT

About $600,000 has been raised online this week for a 68-year-old school bus monitor from upstate New York after a cellphone video showing a group of boys on the bus brutally taunting her spread quick...


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