Baramulla: Tension flared up in Jammu and Kashmir again as massive protests erupted in Baramulla after the killing of a 20-year-old youth. The protests have been overnight as the youth was killed on Friday night. Hundreds came out on the street on Friday night demanding action in what they alleged was an army firing. The police had to even resort to a lathicharge. The youth has been identified as Aishiq...
09:57 AM, Feb 11, 2012
It seems the situation is spiraling out of control in Maldives, says Minivan News Editor John James Robinson. ...
11:06 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Beirut: In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday. The assault in Homs, which has been one of the main flashpoints of opposition during the uprising, comes as the UN Security Council prepares to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for...
11:39 AM, Feb 04, 2012
There seems to be no end in sight to tensions in Egypt with the protesters now demanding an end to the country's military rule. ...
08:46 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Egypt police shot and killed two protesters in Suez early on Friday, a health official said, the first to die in clashes that erupted around the country after a riot at a soccer stadium killed 74, as sports violence spiraled into a new political crisis for Egypt. A three-day mourning period was also announced for the 80 victims of Wednesday's violence. Protesters blame police for failing to...
11:42 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Beirut: The Arab League halted its observer mission to Syria on Saturday, sharply criticising the regime of President Bashar Assad for escalating violence in recent days that has killed nearly 100 people across the country. The rising bloodshed has added urgency to new attempts by Arab and Western countries to find a resolution to the 10 months of violence that according to the United Nations has killed at least 5,400...
11:46 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Rostov-On-Don: Russian officials say an Islamist warlord, seven militants, four officers and one civilian have been killed in three separate incidents in Russia's violence-plagued southern Caucasus region. Russia's Anti-Terrorist Committee spokesman Nikolai Sintsov said the leader of Islamist separatists in the province of Ingushetia was killed in a shootout on Friday in the village of Ekazhevo along with two other militants. Also on Friday, police spokesman Vyasheslav Gasanov said four...
09:29 PM, Jan 27, 2012
United Nations: The Arab League chief and the Qatari prime minister will present an Arab peace plan for Syria to ambassadors in the UN Security Council in New York early next week, the council president said on Thursday. South Africa's UN Ambassador Baso Sangqu told reporters in New York that the meeting is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim...
04:56 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Harasta: Syrian troops battled rebels in a town just north of Damascus on Thursday and a provincial governor spoke of negotiating local ceasefires as a 10-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad crept close to the capital. A Syrian officer told Reuters clashes had been under way in Douma since the morning. Security forces were searching houses for arms and wanted suspects. Reporters were shown home-made grenades among other seized weapons....
02:02 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Muscat: Outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is seeking exile in neighbouring Oman but the sultanate is reluctant to host him for fear of harming relations with Yemen, diplomats said on Tuesday. Saleh left Sanaa on Sunday and headed to the United States for medical treatment after a brief stopover in Oman. He had said in a parting speech that he would return to Yemen. A foreign diplomat in Muscat...
02:16 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Davos: An igloo protest camp sprouting up amid $500-a-night hotels and security cordons at the Swiss resort of Davos seems to serve a warning to the world's rich and powerful gathering in Davos: Beware, or you might be sleeping in the snow next year, too. In many countries, prospects for prosperity are increasingly fragile. Trust in presidents and CEOs, and the systems they represent, is drying up. Uncertainty lurks for...
10:33 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Beirut: A clash between Syrian forces and army defectors today erupted in a suburb of the tightly held capital of Damascus, adding urgency just as the Arab League was extending an observers' mission that so far has failed to end long months of bloody violence. The two events outlined how an uprising against President Bashar Assad that started with mass popular protests is moving now toward an armed conflict that...
12:08 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Sanaa: Yemen's parliament approved a law on Saturday granting outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution over the killing of protesters, in a bid to push ahead with a plan to ease him out of power and end nearly a year of unrest. The law, backed by a majority of voting members, stops short of giving full immunity to Saleh's aides. Parliament also supported the candidacy of Vice-President Abd-Rabbu...
02:32 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Srinagar: Srinagar erupted in protests on Saturday with protesters demanding justice for the victims of the 1990 killings in Gawakadal. Clashes between the police and Hurriyat activists broke out in Srinagar's Maisuma area earlier this morning. Security personnel fired tear gas shells to disperse stone-pelting protesters and detained some of them. Nearly 52 people died in the infamous killings in Gawakadal during a police firing. The massacre was named after...
05:46 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Blantyre: It's been 18 years since the late dictator Hastings Kamuzu Banda's "indecency in dress" laws were repealed in Malawi, but mobs of men and boys in the largely conservative southern African country have recently been publicly stripping women of their miniskirts and pants. On Friday, hundreds of outraged girls and women, among them prominent politicians, protested the attacks while wearing pants or miniskirts and T-shirts emblazoned with such slogans...
01:17 PM, Jan 21, 2012
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