China is interested in Saudi Arabia’s providing oil for a strategic fuel reserve, and President Hu Jintao discussed this with Saudi officials during his weekend visit, a senior Saudi official said Monday.
Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed UN force in Darfur.
The us senate majority leader is hoping to revive an immigration Bill that would tighten border security while giving illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship, senate Republican aides say.
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a top intelligence analyst who admitted leaking classified information that led to a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a network of secret CIA prisons, government officials say.
The entire Palestinian Cabinet could be targeted for assassination after the Hamas-led government appointed a wanted militant as head of a new Palestinian security force...
Yahoo Inc turned over one of its users’ draft e-mails to Chinese authorities, who used the information to jail the account holder on subversion charges, a rights group said.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said today that no one is talking about invading Iran, but argued that the international community must send a strong, unified message in the dispute about Tehran’s nuclear programme.
North Korea has accused the United States of counterfeiting its own currency to fabricate evidence that the communist state is engaged in manufacturing fake us dollar bills.
Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months following the 9/11 terror attacks.
The Italian President said in an interview published on Tuesday that he will not seek a second term when his seven year-mandate ends in mid-May, possibly causing delay in the formation of a government after parliamentary elections.
The chief European cease-fire monitor blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday for the recent spate of land mine blasts that have killed dozens in Sri Lanka and imperiled a four-year-old, Norwegian-brokered truce.
Red and gold Chinese flags drape the International District in celebration of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s two-day stop here en route to Washington DC.
Security forces opened fire on Monday on a crowd in southern Nepal protesting King Gyanedra’s rule, killing one and wounding five, a local administrator said.
The former Iranian President said on Monday that talk of US contingency planning for a military attack on Iran were overblown because such a move would be too dangerous.
Pakistani forces have killed an Egyptian Al-Qaeda terrorist wanted by the US over the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, a Cabinet minister said on Thursday.
Al-Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri praised insurgents in Iraq, particularly Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi and called on all Muslims to support them in a video posted on the internet.
Centre-Left leader Romano Prodi said that talks on selecting a Cabinet would begin in the next few days, insisting he had the necessary majority to govern despite PM Silvio Berlusconi’s
