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Syrian security forces arrested dozens of people on Monday in a new offensive, their largest foray into a central Syrian city since withdrawing last month, prompting residents to build barricades to block a more ambitious assault, residents said.
"I can assure that the military has no desire to stray out of its assigned roles," said General Prawit Wongsuwan, a former army chief close to military leaders involved in the 2006 coup that removed Thaksin. "The army accepts the election results,"
China suffered two mining accidents on Saturday that left three workers dead and 40 trapped underground, state media said, the latest incidents to hit the nation's dangerous collieries.
Fresh off of the public demand by Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Mukhar that the United States must immediately vacate the Shamsi Air Base...
Activists say at least nine people killed by security forces as thousands take to the streets across the country.
Revisions give some of the king's powers to the prime minister and the parliament while keeping him as a power-broker.
Way beyond the impenetrable fog of war, the ongoing tragedy in Libya is morphing into a war of acronyms that graphically depicts the tortuous "birth pangs" of a possibly new world order.
Earlier in the year, the BBC featured a series of articles commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the state in Somalia.
China has opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge - which stretches five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais.
Young men are being mobilized into militias, marching into the hills to train. All the cars in this area, including humanitarian vehicles, are smeared with thick mud to camouflage them from what residents describe as unrelenting bombings.
“Taxpayers should not be responsible for paying the debts of a private institution,” (can you say END THE FED? - Ed)
China, a democratic leader among the countries of the world, shall march into a glorious future shoulder-to-shoulder with the West.
Hong Kong television showed seething crowds of migrant workers from the southwestern province of Sichuan running through the streets of Zengcheng, smashing windows, setting fire to government buildings and overturning police vehicles.
While the IMF stalls on its rescue package for Greece, many in the market are beginning to question whether the country would not in fact be better off out of the euro altogether.
Early this morning, it was revealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued an arrest warrant for Moammar Gadhafi as well as one for his son and another top official, accusing them of “crimes against humanity”...
Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court urges Muammar Gaddafi's own aides to arrest the Libyan leader.
Israeli diplomats are once again pushing vigorously today following the news that the Palestinian Liberation Organization, frustrated by the lack of peace talks, will go to the United Nations in September seeking recognition as a member state.
Security cabinet "rethinking" threat to punish journalists covering upcoming bid to break the blockade of Gaza.
Libyan leader, his son Saif al-Islam and his spy chief Abdullah Senussi indicted for crimes against humanity.
The Venezuelan government rejected reports that President Hugo Chavez is in critical condition following emergency surgery in Cuba, insisting the firebrand leftist leader was "recovering well." Chavez's government said he had an operation for a pe
An English climber on Sunday found the bodies of six mountaineers in the French Alps who appeared to have died after a fall caused by an avalanche of snow and stones, officials said.
From Wikipedia – Burma, now called Myanmar, has been a stratocracy under various guises since 1962, and in the process has become one of the least developed nations in the world. The military junta finally dissolved in 2011 following general election
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A convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law.
Reports of 15 deaths in protests across country, including six said to have been shot as they left a mosque in Damascus.
Washington pledges new hardware for Philippine navy as Manila vows to "stand up to aggression" in South China Sea.
First the good news: U.S. President Barack Obama is more than twice as popular in Egypt as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad.
Syrian foreign minister says European Union wants to "plant strife", and calls for easing of tensions with Turkey.
The war in Libya has been extremely controversial for a number of NATO member nations, and US officials have taken to task a number of nations, including Germany and Poland, which outright refused to participate.
The former self-appointed spokesman for the collective of hacktivists known as "Anonymous" revealed Tuesday what he called a massive U.S spying program against the Arab world.
The chicken hawk neoconservatives that make up the Project For A New American Century cabal have written on open letter to House Republicans warning them not to reduce or cut funding for U.S. involvement in the military aggression against Libya
