Category: Foreign News

Tributes have been paid to Indian film star Shammi Kapoor who has died of kidney failure in Mumbai, aged 79 . The actor belonged to the Indian film industry’s famous family of actors which included his father, Prithviraj, and brothers Raj and Shashi Kapoor. […]

London (CNN) — Tensions between police and marauding gangs continued into Tuesday in areas of Great Britain, after violence initially sparked by the shooting death of a 29-year-old man in London spread to other parts of the nation. […]

WENZHOU, China (Reuters) – China sacked three senior railway officials on Sunday after a collision between two high-speed trains killed at least 43 people and raised new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network. […]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, horrified police said early Saturday. It took investigators several hours to begin the realize the full scope of the massacre, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed […]

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Three coordinated bombings tore through the heart of India’s busy financial capital during rush hour Wednesday, killing 17 people in the worst terror attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege. The attacks came just months after peace talks resumed between India and Pakistan, which New Delhi has blamed for […]

The Human Rights Watch called on US President Barack Obama to investigate into allegations of detainee abuse authorized by former President George W. Bush and other senior officials, same as the US call for inquiry against international crimes that are committed in places like Darfur, Libya, and Sri Lanka. […]

Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of Thailand’s exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won a landslide victory in the General Elections held yesterday.  The Pheu Thai party led by her won 264 seats against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s Democratic party which has won 160 seats. Yingluck’s brother, Thaksin, was ousted in a military coup in […]

New Delhi, June 23: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has been appointed as the next Ambassador to the United States, an assignment she will take up after superannuation next month-end. […]

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The UN General Assembly will on Tuesday elect South Korean Ban Ki-moon to a second term as UN leader after he was backed by all major powers. […]

Pix by Getty Images (CNN) — At least 10 militants attacked a naval air station in the coastal city of Karachi late Sunday, leading to several explosions and an hours-long gun battle with Pakistani forces that killed four naval officials, Pakistani officials and witnesses said. “The naval commandos and the naval marines are tightening their […]

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from jail on Friday to house arrest in a landmark apartment building near ground zero after the luxury apartment where he had arranged to stay fell through because the neighbours objected to the media frenzy. […]

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned from his post. Following is a statement from the IMF regarding Strauss Kahn’s resignation: […]

New York (CNN) — The head of the powerful International Monetary Fund will spend the next few days in an 11-by-13-foot cell at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex — a far cry from the $3,000-a-night luxury suite where he allegedly chased a housekeeping employee naked down a hallway and attempted to sexually assault her. […]

(FT) — Microsoft is in advanced discussions about purchasing Skype, the internet telephone company, a person close to the company said, in what would be one of the technology company’s largest deals as it seeks to revitalise its business. […]

US President Barack Obama said that he will not release gruesome photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. “We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies,” Obama told Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes. “We don’t need to spike the football.” […]

The full text of US President Barack Obama’s statement on Osama bin Laden’s death: “Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands […]