Some 10,000 civilians in northern Yemen have been displaced from their villages over the past week by sporadic clashes between government troops and Shiite Muslim rebels, said the International Committee of the Red Cross today. The most recent round of
Israel's Channel Two TV says police will next week question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in connection to a corruption case. The TV has reported today that police will confront Olmert with evidence they have obtained in recent interrogations of those
Pakistan today said that coalition forces in Afghanistan earlier this week launched a missile strike into Pakistan's tribal region, killing 14 people. "We confirm that the two missiles were fired from a drone which belongs to coalition forces deployed in
A strong aftershock near the epicentre of China's devastating earthquake triggered landslides that cutoff roads and buried vehicles, state media reported. The aftershock, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, shook Lixian county, less than 50 kilometres from the epicentre of
US President George W Bush pressed Saudi Arabia to raise oil output, but the world's biggest crude exporter said global supply is balanced with demand. The OPEC kingpin revealed it had hiked production by 300,000 barrels per day this month,
Goa PWD minister Churchill Alemao enjoyed a birthday lunch at the UK's House of Commons hosted by Goa-origin Labour MP, Keith Vaz. Alemao, who turned 57 yesterday, was joined by family and friends in the lunch, and later visited prominent
Chinese authorities have implemented an emergency nuclear safety plan following the giant quake in Sichuan province, French nuclear experts disclosed. The French experts of the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) said several nuclear installations not used for
Each of the eight teams in the IPL will donate Rs 50 lakh for relief of the victims of the Jaipur blasts, IPL Chairman Lalit Modi said today. The donation will be made to the Chief Minister s Relief Fund,
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe acknowledged today he had suffered an electoral disaster in losing a first-round poll to arch-rival Morgan Tsvangirai, as the date for a run-off was set for June 27. In his first detailed comments since losing a
One of the nine Afghans involved in a hijacking eight years ago was arrested after he was found working at Heathrow airport as a cleaner, it emerged today. Nazamuddin Mohammidy (34) was one of a group who took over an
The United States said it intends to send 500,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to North Korea over the next year following a deal with Pyongyang that allows broad monitoring of deliveries. It said the two sides "have reached an
A German citizen has died in the massive earthquake that ravaged China's southwest region, becoming the first foreign casualty of the disaster, the Chinese embassy here said today. Embassy spokesman Wang Baodong told reporters that the person was a "foreign
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim today said the newly-formed Pakatan Rakyat (PR), an alliance of opposition parties, would dislodge the government of Prime Minister Ahmad Badawi by mid-September. Addressing a press conference here, Ibrahim said in the Parliament of 222,PR
The Dutch government announced plans today to criminalize visiting prostitutes who are not officially licensed. The Justice Ministry said the move to punish clients is necessary to force better compliance with the country's legalized prostitution policy. At the same time,
The United Nations has released USD seven million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for any humanitarian assistance that China might need to deal with the situation created by recent major earthquake in Sichuan. The grant will be used
Republican candidate John McCain will today say that as president, he would get most US troops home from Iraq by 2013,for the first time setting a timeline to end the war. The Arizona senator was also due to say in
The White House today dismissed a controversial referendum held in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar which authorities said gave a 92.4 per cent backing to the country s military-backed constitution. "We have expressed our strong concerns about the legitimacy of the constitution and
The UN said today it had airlifted more than 250 civilian staff from Sudan's flashpoint town of Abyei, where thousands of Sudanese are believed to have fled clashes in the contested oil region. Fighting broke out in the town yesterday
Red Cross officials say about 100 people died when a ruptured pipeline caught fire in Nigeria. Disaster coordinator Suleman Maikubi says road construction machinery today pierced a pipe carrying refined fuel through a village on the outskirts of the main
As Myanmar battles to tackle the devastation caused by cyclone Nargis that killed over 34,000 people, another storm is heading towards the country, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said Wednesday. The department, which also works as a regional special station
