UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that the head of Myanmar's junta had rejected his initial request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a rocky start to ...
KOREAN PENINSULA If North Korea fires a missile towards Hawaii over the July 4 holiday, the US will not take immediate unilateral action but plans a measured response with Russia, China, Japan and ...
PAKISTAN Major western countries, after applauding Pakistan's military crackdown on Islamic extremists in the Swat valley, have failed to pledge the money needed to resettle the population now ...
UNITED STATES: ANALYSIS Staving off California's financial meltdown will be the toughest role yet for Hollywood hero Arnold Schwarzenegger as he enters the last 18 months of his governorship.
MICHAEL JACKSON The future of Michael Jackson's children has been thrown into question after his former wife won a delay in a custody hearing while she decides whether she wants to raise her two ...
AFGHANISTANOne of two British soldiers killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan this week was the first commanding officer to die in operations since 1991.
IRAQIn interrogations before his execution, Saddam Hussein told an FBI agent that on the eve of the 2003 US invasion Iraq was trapped between UN orders to demonstrate it had disarmed and a fear that ...
IRAN Some of the detained Iranian members of staff of the British embassy would be put on trial for allegedly stoking post-election unrest, a top Iranian cleric said yesterday, a move set to see ties ...
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