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  • Tripoli under New Round of Airstrikes

    Loud explosions and heavy anti-aircraft gunfire were heard in the Libyan capital city of Tripoli at around 9:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Monday as a new round of Western-led airstrikes started, a Xinhua reporter said. Anti-aircraft artilleries were shooting into the sky from the north and east parts of the city, while the […]

    Pakistan Officials Fear 52 Miners Dead

    Rescue workers used shovels and bare hands yesterday to dig out victims buried by explosions in a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan, and officials said they feared all 52 miners underground at the time of the accident were dead. The workers have recovered 24 bodies after digging through one of the mine’s three wings, said […]

    Green Party makes impressive gains in German state election

    Germany’s anti-atom Green Party has made impressive gains in a state election, benefiting from a growing public concern about reactor safety in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan. The Green Party, which has been at the forefront nation-wide protest campaigns against the federal government’s decision at the end of last year to extend […]

    Pak starts peace talks with Tehrik-e-Taliban: report

    Pakistan government has started peace talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban and other militant groups across the restive northwestern tribal areas in anticipation of an early withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, according to a media report Monday. The move is a critical step in the transition to full Afghan control by the end of 2014 as […]

    Japan reconstruction may take 5 years: World Bank

    Japan may need five years to rebuild from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that has caused up to $235 billion of damage, the World Bank said on Monday. The 11th March disaster which killed more than 8,600 people and left more than 12,800 missing, and ravaged northeastern Japan will likely shave up to 0.5 percentage […]

    Yemen President Saleh’s regime near falling

    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year-old iron fisted rule appeared to be tottering on Monday after three army generals, including his longtime confidant, defected, asking him to step down and deployed tanks and armoured vehicles to protect the protesters. Maj Gen Ali Mohsen Saleh, who belongs to President’s influential ‘Hashid’ tribe and is commander of […]

    British jets abort Libya attack over civilian concerns

    British Tornado jets pulled back from attacking Libyan air defence systems overnight because of a fear of hitting civilians, the defence ministry said Monday. Royal Air Force (RAF) planes approached a target but decided not to launch their weapons because of information that there were civilians in the area, military spokesman Major General John Lorimer […]

    U.S. expects to hand off Libya lead soon: Gates

    U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said that the U.S. expects to turn control of the Libya military mission over to a coalition probably headed either by the French and British or by NATO “in a matter of days.” In his first public remarks since the start of the bombings, Gates said President Barack Obama felt […]

    India regrets air strikes over Libya

    Regretting air strikes over Libya, India on Monday called upon all parties to abjure use of violence saying the need of the hour was “cessation of armed conflict” in the North African country. “We view with grave concern the ongoing violence, strikes and deteriorating humanitarian situation in Libya. We regret the air strikes that are […]

    UN chief says Libya a warning to Mideast authoritarians

    UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said that the Libya war and revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia should be a warning to authoritarian leaders in the Middle East and North Africa who are still ordering forces to shoot demonstrators. The UN Secretary General, who has castigated the king of Bahrain and strongly condemned the repression of […]