China and Russia were on the "wrong side of history" by vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that would have imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government, the US State Department said Monday, the dpa reported. The measure, designed
ArmInfo. 'Turkey and Turkish people should be strong enough to recognize Armenian genocide and to stop genocide of Kurdish population', Avetis Kalajyan, Plenipotentiary Co-chair of Martyr Nations International Alliance Supreme Council told media when presenting his book
ArmInfo. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has proclaimed and is building its independence in full compliance with the international law and the legislation of the USSR whose legal successor is the Russian Federation, Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Georgy Petrossyan said while commenting
There were bright lights, loud music and a crowd of people on Beirut's Corniche Saturday night. But these revelers were not rollerblading or playing soccer, they were astronomers. The Lebanese Astronomy Group held the bash to introduce the public to
The large building near the border with Israel was already earmarked to be a green pioneer in Lebanon when it was blown apart by two missiles during the short but sharp summer war of 2006. Now the demolished building has
Villages in South Lebanon have prepared a hero's welcome for local men captured two years ago and the bodies of Hizbullah fighters due to return home under a prisoner swap with Israel. A victory arch with a portrait of detainee
Over 300 children descended on Furn al-Shubbak's Planete Abraj cinema on Friday afternoon, running around with tubs of popcorn in hand to see "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" and to meet 17-year-old Skandar Keynes. The British-Lebanese actor played the
It said the two leaders discussed "efforts to relaunch the Middle East peace process" and "the possibility of lifting the Israeli blockage imposed on the Gaza Strip". The Qatari prime minister, Shaikh Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani, who doubles as
McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising US cigarette exports to the Islamic Republic by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em". Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali
His claims were published in reformist newspapers and the conservative Jomhouri Eslami, which said the comments came in a speech he made over a month ago. Ahmadinejad has already said he was the target of an assassination plot by Iran's
The Jewish state was also set to transfer to Lebanon the bodies of almost 200 fighters of the Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hizbollah and release a number of Palestinians under the prisoner swap. "Samir Kantar and four other Lebanese prisoners -
The two Shi'ites had wanted to return with their families to their old home in Dora, formerly a mixed Sunni-Shi'ite district of southern Baghdad. Dora had been largely emptied by the sectarian violence of the past few years, but now
Among the dead were four shepherds targeted outside the main northern city of Mosul. Police said unidentified gunmen killed the four outside the mixed city, 370 kilometres north of Baghdad, that the US military says is the last urban bastion
His comments came after Iran intensified tensions in the nuclear standoff by conducting two days of missile tests, which included the firing of a missile that it said could reach Israel. "This is only a small part of Iran's defence
Deputy General of Police, Administration, Chennai, A M S Gunaseelan has been transferred as Joint Commissioner of Police, South Zone, Chennai, a press release here said. G Dorairaj, Joint Commissioner of Police, South Zone has been posted as Deputy Inspector
The attack on the US outpost came the same day a suicide bomber targeting a police patrol killed 24 people, while US coalition and Afghan soldiers killed 40 militants elsewhere in the southern province of Helmand. One soldier from the
The US troops were assaulted in a dangerous region close to the Pakistan border. It lasted throughout the day. Militants fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from homes and a mosque in the village of Wanat in the province
A bench comprising judges Sharfuddin Chaklader and Emdadul Haque granted interim bail to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and sought an explanation from the government as to why he should not be granted permanent bail, court officials said. The court
Speculation of a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities has mounted following a report that Israel staged an air force exercise which was a rehearsal for such an attack. "It will cost the United States and the planet dear," Assad said
