Somali pirates seize tanker, cargo ship

NAIROBI, Kenya: Somali pirates seized a ship carrying fertilizer from the U.S. in the Indian Ocean and a British-flagged chemical tanker in the heavil

‘Anti-China activities not allowed

BEIJING: Nepal’s prime minister said on Tuesday his government would not tolerate any anti-China demonstrations in the Himalayan nation as he met with

‘US missile shield holding up N-deal’

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Australians urged to flee wildfire

SYDNEY: Australian officials urged residents to evacuate a farming district in the country’s west on Tuesday as a towering wildfire with flames higher

Sonia Gandhi ignores Rao

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday made it a point to ignore P.V. Narasimha Rao as she lavished praise on all the prime ministers it

China, Britain clash over heroin case execution

URUMQI, China: China executed a Briton on Tuesday caught smuggling heroin, prompting a British outcry over what it said was the lack of any mental hea

Base closure standoff sours US-Japan ties

GINOWAN, Japan: When the US took over a Japanese airfield here in the closing days of World War II, it was surrounded by sugarcane fields and the smol

Ahmadinejad blames US, Israel for Iran protests

Tehran summons UK ambassador; Obama orders Iran to free protesters TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States and

Court gives Palestinians access to key West Bank road

CAIRO/OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process on Tuesday with Eg

Facebook, Twitter top list of weird stories in 2009

BERLIN: From the German town that unwittingly advertised pornography on its website to the American who interrupted his wedding to update his Facebook

Turkish mly in spotlight

A search of army offices has put the once-omnipotent Turkish military under unprecedented pressure, stoking fears of a deepening rift between the Isla

Sudan passes law on southern independence vote

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s parliament passed a long-disputed law governing a southern vote on independence on Tuesday, defusing a political crisis after months