Ireland president signs first Irish abortion bill into law

DUBLIN - Ireland's head of state has signed the country's first bill on abortion into law, legalizing the practice in exceptional cases where doctors deem a woman's life at risk. President Michael D. Higgins surprised some analysts on Tuesday by signing...

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Italy's top court begins Berlusconi case hearing

ROME: Italy's supreme court heard on Tuesday Silvio Berlusconi's last appeal against a jail sentence and ban from public office for tax fraud in a case which could threaten the survival of the shaky coalition government.If five top judges hand down the...

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Kerry's mystery trip to Pakistan in offing

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry may visit Pakistan this week -- or he may not. Or he may not visit but say he will. Or he may visit and wish he had not. Or wish he did, but may not. It's all a part of the comical/farcical engagement between...

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Israel and Palestinian teams leave for US talks

JERUSALEM: Israeli and Palestinian teams headed to Washington on Monday for preliminary talks on resuming formal negotiations after five years of stalemate.Both sides emphasized that many obstacles stand between them and a final deal on setting up a...

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Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills 55

BAGHDAD: Seventeen car bombs exploded in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 55 people in predominantly Shiite areas in some of the deadliest violence since Sunni insurgents including al-Qaida stepped-up attacks this year.Police and medical sources said...

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Deliberations continue is WikiLeaks court-martial

FORT MEADE, Maryland: A military judge continues deliberating in the court-martial of an Army private charged with aiding the enemy for giving U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks.Col. Denise Lind is beginning her third day of deliberations in the trial of Pfc....

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3 million pack Brazil beach to hear Pope

LONDON: Up to three million people packed Copacabana beach in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro city to hear Pope Francis address their all-night vigil, BBC reported on Sunday.In his address, the Pope urged the pilgrims not to be "part-time" Christians but to...

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Pope wraps up trip with Copacabana Mass

RIO DE JANEIRO: Pope Francis wrapped up a historic trip to his home continent on Sunday with a Mass on Copacabana beach that drew a reported 3 million people, who cheered the first Latin American pope in a remarkable response to his message that the...

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Mali holds first poll since coup; rebels warn voters

KIDAL, Mali : The United Nations peacekeepers deployed here did their best to paint over independence slogans emblazoned on the concrete wall surrounding one of the main polling stations in this contested city, the epicenter of last year's rebellion...

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Spain driver held for reckless homicide

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain/Galicia: The driver of a speeding train that hurtled off the rails killing 78 people in Spain was detained for "reckless homicide", interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said on Saturday."He has been detained since 7:40pm...

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Life 'intolerable' for majority of Bulgarians: Survey

SOFIA (Bulgaria): Almost three quarters of Bulgarians consider their country "intolerable", according to a new survey released on Saturday by the Open Society Institute, following weeks of protest against the government and a worsening economy. The...

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China and Russia to conduct anti-terror exercise

BEIJING: Chinese military personnel on Saturday left for Russia to participate in a 20-day anti-terrorism drill, the second joint exercise by the two countries this month.The exercise, dubbed " Peace Mission 2013" and scheduled to run from July 27 to...

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Osama's AK-47 on display at secret CIA museum

WASHINGTON: Osama bin Laden's AK-47 rifle, found next to his body after he was killed in a daring midnight raid by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan, is on display at an ultra-secret CIA museum.The AK-47 is a recent addition to a collection housed at a museum...

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Defense to give closing in Manning-WikiLeaks case

FORT MEADE (Maryland): The defense gets the chance on Friday to sum up its case in the court-martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who sent hundreds of thousands of US government documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.Manning's civilian...

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Ex-BBC broadcaster jail term doubled

LONDON: British appeals judges have doubled the jail time of former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall for sex offenses after ruling that his 15-month sentence was inadequate.After initially denying the charges, Hall pleaded guilty in May to 14 counts of indecent...

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22 killed in coordinated attack on police: Mexico

MEXICO CITY: Heavily-armed men assaulted Mexican federal police units in a carefully planned attack in which 22 people were killed, most of them assailants, in six towns, the government announced.The gunmen concealed themselves in hills above checkpoints...

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Pope to celebrate Mass at Brazil's Catholic shrine

APARECIDA (Brazil): Argentine-born Pope Francis arrived Wednesday at Brazil's most revered shrine, where tens of thousand of pilgrims braved rain and cold to attend his first Mass in Latin America.A helicopter carried the pope to the shrine from Rio...

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95 killed in Guinea clashes, govt says

CONAKRY (Guinea): A government spokesman says recent clashes in Guinea's southeast forest region killed 95 and injured hundreds, a significant increase over numbers provided last week.Albert Camara told Associated Press on Wednesday that the violence...

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Al-Qaida claims deadly prison raids in Iraq

BAGHDAD: Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq claimed responsibility on Tuesday for audacious raids on two high-security prisons on the outskirts of Baghdad this week that killed dozens and set free hundreds of inmates, including some of its followers.The statement...

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Clashes resurface in Egypt, 10 killed

CAIRO: At least 10 people were killed and over 80 injured in deadly clashes across Egypt between supporters and opponents of ousted president Mohamed Morsi as pressure grew on the country's new leadership to release the Islamist leader.Clashes broke...

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Donkey bomber kills 3 Nato soldiers in Afghanistan

GHAZNI (Afghanistan): A suicide bomber rode a donkey today into an Afghan and Nato military convoy, killing three Western soldiers and their Afghan interpreter, officials said.Nato's International Security Assistance Force confirmed three casualties...

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Suicide attack kills 25 in northern Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army convoy in the northern city of Mosul early on Monday, killing at least 22 soldiers and three passers-by, police said.The bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives up to a military convoy in the...

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Norway honours victims of July 22 terror attacks

OSLO, Norway: Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg marked the second anniversary of the terror acts that killed 77 people by calling for a continued fight against all forms of extremism.In a wreath-laying ceremony at the government headquarters...

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EU blacklits Hezbollah's military wing

BRUSSELS: The European Union placed the military wing of the Lebanese party Hezbollah on its terror list on Monday in a major policy change toward the Middle East.The EU's 28 foreign ministers reached the decision unanimously at their monthly meeting,...

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Nepal parties allege foreign 'meddling'

KATHMANDU: The alliance of 33 fringe parties in Nepal led by the CPN-Maoist today alleged that some foreign missions were interfering in the country's internal affairs and appealed to the world community not to support the forthcoming Constituent Assembly...

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Iran opposes Israel-Palestinian peace talks

TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday voiced opposition to a US-mediated resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, predicting the Jewish state would never agree to withdraw from occupied Arab lands.Tehran "along with Palestinian groups expresses...

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French police, youths clash after veil incident

TRAPPES (France): About 250 people hurling projectiles clashed with police firing tear gas west of Paris, in apparent protest over enforcement of France's ban on Islamic face veils. Five people were injured and six detained in the violence, authorities...

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Sri Lanka asks EU to help stop LTTE funding

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Saturday asked for sustained vigilance on the part of the European Union to stop funding of the LTTE by the outfit's front organisations.Sri Lankan external affairs minister GL Peiris stressed on the issue during talks with a six-member...

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Italy: 5 convicted for Costa Concordia shipwreck

GROSSETO, Italy: An Italian court on Saturday convicted five employees of an Italian cruise company for the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 crew and passengers after it accepted their plea bargains.The longest sentence went to the crisis coordinator...

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Putin critic Navalny vows to contest mayoral poll

MOSCOW: Top opposition leader Alexei Navalny triumphantly returned home to Russia's capital on Saturday after his unexpected release from prison, saying he would push ahead with a bid to become Moscow mayor.The chief opponent of President Vladimir Putin...

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Pope sets up body to overhaul Vatican

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis set up a special commission of lay experts on Friday tasked with overhauling the economic and administrative structure of the Vatican in a radical bid to streamline and clean up the scandal-hit institution.The commission will...

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South Africa admits 'challenges' in Zimbabwe vote

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's chief envoy on Zimbabwe's political crisis conceded on Friday there were challenges in the run-up to key polls, a day before regional mediators meet to discuss the vote.Thousands of Zimbabwean security forces couldn't draw...

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Merkel urges patience on NSA answers

BERLIN: Two months before national elections, German Chancellor Angela Merkel found herself besieged by questions about US spying, insisting Friday that she has not been remiss in confronting the Americans about their surveillance activities.The chancellor's...

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Insurgents kill 8 laborers, Afghan officials say

KABUL: Insurgents pulled over a minivan with eight young laborers on their way to work at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, forced them out and then shot them dead, officials said.The killings near Forward Operating Base Shank, a US base...

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Syria's war children will grow up illiterate: UN

BEIRUT: Syria's devastating civil war will force a generation of children to grow up illiterate and filled with hate, a UN envoy warned on Thursday as fighting raged on around the country.Leila Zerrougui, the special representative for children and armed...

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Palestinians demand Kerry plan changes

RAMALLAH (Palestinian Territories): The Palestinians demanded on Thursday that changes be made to US secretary of state John Kerry's Middle East peace plan, following a meeting in Ramallah, an official said."Fatah wants to make some alterations to Kerry's...

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Syrian university strips Turkish PM of PhD

DAMASCUS: Syria's Aleppo University has stripped Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of an honorary doctorate citing his support for Syrian rebels and crackdown on Turkish protesters, state media reported on Tuesday.State news agency SANA said...

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Pakistan presidential election on Aug 6

ISLAMABAD: The election to choose the next Pakistan President will be held on August 6, over a month earlier than expected, in a move seen as an attempt to hasten the exit of incumbent Asif Ali Zardari.The schedule for the presidential election was announced...

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Sudan's President leaves Nigeria, ICC calls for arrest

ABUJA: Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria, where his presence at a one-day African Union HIV/AIDS summit defied International Criminal Court (ICC) calls for his arrest on charges of genocide and war crimes, officials said on Tuesday.His...

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Car bomb kills 13 in Syria

BEIRUT: A car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in a town north of the Syrian capital, killing at least 13 people including 10 policemen, activists said on Monday.The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said the blast took place overnight...

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Pressure on Spanish PM to step down

MADRID: Pressure mounted on Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday as a once-trusted aide gave more testimony before a judge looking into allegations of illegal financing in the ruling party.Opposition leaders called on Rajoy to step down and...

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British woman dies trying to swim the Channel

LONDON: A British woman died trying to swim across the Channel between Britain and France over the weekend, police and the UK foreign office said on Monday.Susan Taylor, who was reportedly in her 30s, died in hospital in Boulogne-sur-Mer on the northern...

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