Iraq parliament chief calls for govt to resign
BAGHDAD: Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi called yesterday for the cabinet to resign and for early elections to be held, as a seven-day wave of violence killed more than 230 people in Iraq. The initiative is aimed at “national reconciliation and maintaining the gains of democracy,” as well as “sparing the country from the spectre of civil More...
At least 7 dead in Mexico clashes
MORELIA: At least seven people were killed Sunday in clashes between suspected criminals, security forces and citizen security groups in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, officials told foreign news agency. “The More...
Botswana president injured in cheetah ‘attack’
GABORONE: Botswana President Ian Khama has received two stitches in his face after being clawed by a cheetah, local media reported yesterday. The incident occurred at a Botswana Defence Force barracks last week, More...
Suu Kyi’s ‘rule of law’ mantra a distant hope in Myanmar
YANGON: It is Aung San Suu Kyi’s mantra for embedding democratic reform, but for many who endured Myanmar’s authoritarian and deeply corrupt former junta the “rule of law” remains a distant hope. Flashpoint More...
Far right stumbles again in Austrian state election
VIENNA: Austria’s far-right Freedom Party lost ground on Sunday at a third consecutive state election, further clouding its prospects for joining a national coalition after parliamentary elections due by September. More...
Syria PM survives bomb attack
Damascus: Syria’s prime minister escaped an assassination attempt yesterday when a bomb went off near his convoy in the capital, Damascus, state media reported. Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi was unhurt in the attack More...
4 stabbed at US church
ALBUQUERQUE: Police said a 24-year-old man stabbed four people at a Catholic church in New Mexico as a Sunday mass was nearing its end. Police spokesman Robert Gibbs said Lawrence Capener jumped over several pews More...
4 climbers dead, 2 missing on Japan mountains
TOKYO: Four climbers died over the weekend and two others are missing on mountains including Mount Fuji in central Japan, police and news reports said yesterdqay. Police said that on Sunday they found the body More...
5 car bombs kill 26 across Iraq
BAGHDAD: Five car bombs exploded Monday in public areas in predominantly Shiite cities and districts in central and southern Iraq, killing 26 civilians and wounding dozens, officials said. The blasts come amid More...
Gunmen keep Libyan foreign ministry under siege
TRIPOLI: Dozens of gunmen kept Libya’s foreign ministry under siege for a second straight day yesterday demanding it sack officials from the previous regime of Moamer Kadhafi, an foreign news agenyc correspondent More...
