Sai Baba always claims to be reviving the Indian nation to its former alleged greatness. However, in 2007, the estimated number of people (Avert.org and WHO) with AIDS in India was 2.3 million. The highest HIV prevalence rates are found

Iran's nuclear chief Monday said UN criticism pushed his country to retaliate by announcing ambitious plans for more uranium enrichment.With tensions rising over deadlocked negotiations, France said diplomacy was not working and sanctions against Iran were needed.Vice President Ali Akbar

Senior Hamas officials said Monday that the Islamic militant group is still sparring with Israel over the names of 50 prisoners it wants released in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier, signaling there were still significant gaps before completing the

Yemeni security forces spread out across the southern port city of Aden Monday, clamping down on any display of secessionist sentiment on the anniversary of the south's independence from Britain.Residents said hundreds of troops lined the streets of Aden, where

The United Arab Emirates' central bank Governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi said Monday there was no cause for concern about local banks, which he said had proven able to weather the global crisis, the state news agency WAM reported.Suweidi's statements followed

The fate of one prisoner locked in an Israeli jail could release the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process from its own jail - provided the timing is right.The political timing is definitely ripe.This week a major residual source of tension between

The head of the Iranian branch of the Rael sect could be deported from Turkey back to her home country, where she says she faces execution, a Turkish newspaper reported Monday.Negar Azizmoradi, 31, was arrested at the end of October

The United States and other world powers should impose sanctions on key members of the Sudanese government for refusing to end violence in Darfur and South Sudan, a report by an anti-genocide group said on Monday.Sudan's UN Ambassador Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem

Israeli settler leaders vowed Monday to resist the government decision to impose a temporary ease on West Bank settlement building after months of pressure from the US.Prominent settler leaders held an emergency meeting at which it was decided to bar

Turning on their television sets during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein.The late Iraqi dictator is lauded on a mysterious satellite channel that began broadcasting on the

Japan plans to send hundreds of military personnel to Sudan next year to join UN peacekeepers overseeing an agreement that ended a 21-year North-South civil war, a report said Monday.The government plans to send hundreds of army personnel to the

Three Spanish volunteer aid workers were kidnapped by gunmen while delivering supplies to impoverished villages in Mauritania, and Spain's interior minister said Monday he suspected Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists.Two men and a woman were kidnapped in the West African country, according to

Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the

Right after the September 11, 2001, attacks, then-US President George W. Bush talked about possible links between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, a key adviser to former British Premier Tony Blair said Monday.David Manning, who served as Blair's top foreign policy

Former leftist rebel Jose Mujica celebrated victory Monday after he was declared the winner of a presidential runoff election in Uruguay and promised to work on behalf of all compatriots.The co-founder of the radical leftist Tupamaros movement addressed supporters in

Britain is willing to step-up contact with Hizbullah as they begin to play a bigger role in Lebanon's government, Foreign Secretary David Miliband toldThe Daily Starin an exclusive interview.Miliband told the paper this week he believed "carefully considered contact with

A decision by Swiss voters to ban the building of minarets drew widespread criticism on Monday, with neighboring governments attacking what they called a demonstration of fear-driven prejudice."It's an expression of quite a bit of prejudice and maybe even fear,"

Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday the major problem facing Lebanon's political regime was political sectarianism, which hindered the establishment of a true democracy. He also stressed the continued need for the resistance's, given the absence of a

Conservative Porfirio Lobo has claimed a solid win in the controversial first presidential election in Honduras since a June 28 coup - and vowed to form a national unity government."There's no time for more divisions," a beaming Lobo said late

Sectarianism in Lebanon has reached a dangerous level, Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblatt said on Monday in the party's newspaper Al-Anbaa.Jumblatt said sectarianism in the country was gravely dangerous and it should be tackled seriously and calmly. He