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  • Gadhafi vows to fight through to the 'beyond'

    2011-06-24 07:53

    Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi said he did not fear death and defiantly vowed to fight "to the beyond", as NATO insisted there would be no halt to in its air war despite Italian calls for a cessation.

  • Countries to resume talks over Kashmir

    2011-06-24 07:53

    The Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries were scheduled to begin two-day talks in Islamabad later on Thursday on the longstanding Kashmir dispute, peace and security and confidence building measures, sources said.

  • Medvedev may lead a party 'sooner or later'

    2011-06-24 06:55

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that he didn't rule out the possibility to lead a political party in future.

  • Blasts in western Baghdad kill 40

    2011-06-24 06:52

    Four bombs ripped through Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad Thursday evening, killing at least 40 people in the worst violence the capital has seen in months. An American civilian aid specialist in Iraq was killed in a separate attack.

  • Nazi propaganda chief's waterfront estate on sale

    2011-06-23 22:39

    The former Berlin waterfront estate of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels is going under the hammer.

  • Palestine refuses to trade in refugee right

    2011-06-23 22:38

    The Palestinian leadership on Thursday rejected statements from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he suggested the recognition of a Palestinian state in exchange for dropping Palestinian refugees' right of return.

  • Britain says in contact with Taliban

    2011-06-23 17:05

    Britain is contact with Taliban insurgents to help pave the way to peace in Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday.

  • Cameron welcomes Obama's Afghanistan plans

    2011-06-23 16:47

    British Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed US President Barack Obama's announcement that US troop levels in Afghanistan will be reduced by 33,000 by September next year.

  • France to begin gradual Afghan withdrawal

    2011-06-23 16:38

    President Nicolas Sarkozy's office on Thursday announced a progressive withdrawal of France's troops from Afghanistan, hours after the United States laid out a drawdown.

  • Greece's FinMin must turn on charm for EU

    2011-06-23 15:41

    Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, a political battering ram picked to turn around his country's economic fortunes, may find the force of his oratory not enough to convince sceptical markets and EU partners.

  • Taliban downplay Obama's withdrawal decision

    2011-06-23 14:53

    Taliban militants fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan on Thursday downplayed the announcement of U.S. President Barack Obama as a trick to deceive public opinion and called for the complete pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban statement said.

  • Frustration at peace fuels Belfast rioters

    2011-06-23 15:19

    Pro-British paramilitaries blamed for some of the worst riots in Northern Ireland in years feel peace has marginalised them and exposed them to police crack-downs, residents and local politicians said on Wednesday.

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