In a veiled reference to countries like the US, the new president of the UN General Assembly accused some of the five permanent Security Council members of having “addiction to war” and said the veto privilege seems to have “gone to their heads.”
“It is a sad but undeniable fact that serious breaches of the peace [...]
At least 12 people were killed and 32 injured in two car bombings in the Iraqi capital Monday, an interior ministry source said.’The latest reports said that 12 civilians were killed and 32 others wounded by the two car bombings,’ an interior ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, the source put the toll at [...]
In an unusually strong public statement, Pakistan’s army chief has lashed out at the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan over the cross-border raids in the tribal belt and vowed to defend the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity “at all cost”. Such intrusions were not covered by “any agreement or understanding with the coalition forces,” General [...]
US President George W. Bush telephoned his new Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, Tuesday to offer his ‘full support’ in the fighting against Islamic militants in the country.’Defeating these terrorists and extremists is in Pakistan’s interest,’ Bush said in a speech at National Defence University in Washington. ‘They pose a mortal threat to Pakistan’s future [...]
An equipment failure stalled a cable lift in the Austrian Alps on Tuesday, stranding 79 sightseers in gondolas for two hours before rescuers could get them down, authorities said.
Officials said no one was injured in the rescue operation in Schruns, a town in Vorarlberg province. The gondolas, which operate from spring to autumn, ferry sightseers [...]
Russian newspapers on Tuesday hailed a victory for Moscow after the European Union froze talks on closer ties until Russian troops withdraw from Georgia but stopped short of imposing economic sanctions.
“Europe Can Keep Sucking Our Oil and Gas,” read a headline in the tabloid Tvoi Den, adding that the EU had not “given in to [...]
t least 32 people were killed or reported missing and about 258,000 homes destroyed in a powerful earthquake in southwest China, state media said Sunday.
More than 460 people were injured in Saturday’s 6.1-magnitude earthquake, which rocked Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs and local agencies.
Most [...]
Venezuela on Sunday rejected U.S. requests to resume cooperation in the war on drugs, saying it has made progress despite an alleged fourfold-gain in the amount of Colombian cocaine now passing through its territory.
In the latest barb-trading over the issue, Venezuela dismissed U.S. attempts to renew talks on drugs as “useless and inopportune,” saying U.S. [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections.
But the president of the State Elections Commission said it may be impossible to meet a court-ordered deadline for printing the ballots in time for the election.
U.S. Judge Jose A. Fuste agreed with a lawsuit recently filed [...]
Rebels and the army fought one of their fiercest battles in eastern Congo this year on Thursday, exchanging machine-gun and mortar fire all day outside a national park that is home to some of the world’s last mountain gorillas.
U.N.-funded Radio Okapi reported at least four people were killed and several wounded. At least one of [...]