TEHRAN – One of the three American hikers jailed in Iran for more than a year on spying allegations will be released Saturday, at the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, Iranian culture ministry authorities said Thursday. Reporters were told by an official with the Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture to gather [...]
Pakistan’s Taliban on Tuesday threatened more suicide attacks on security forces and government offices, challenging authorities already overwhelmed by the worst floods in the country’s history. The al Qaeda-linked group has killed nearly 120 people in suicide bombings since resuming a bloody campaign last week to topple the government after a one-month lull during the [...]
The number of Ghanaians in the UK said to be among immigrants involved in sham marriages in that country is the highest. A Press Association report says a former immigration officer has made claims that government officials turned a blind eye to the scandal of hundreds of illegal immigrants wedding in sham marriages. The official, [...]
A former cellmate of a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, who spent two years in prison with her and accompanied her to the court when she received the news of her punishment, has told the Guardian how the woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, fainted in shock after hearing the verdict. “It was in [...]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Monday denounced leaked U.S. intelligence reports accusing its premier spy agency of supporting Taliban insurgents as “skewed” and inconsistent with realities on the ground. Tens of thousands of documents dating from 2004 to 2009 were released by whistleblowers’ website Wikileaks to the New York Times, Britain’s Guardian and Germany’s Der Spiegel [...]
The “flood” of illegal African workers who have infiltrated the country over the last few years via Egypt is threatening the Jewish, democratic nature of the state, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the cabinet on Sunday. Netanyahu’s comments came during a cabinet discussion on formulating a comprehensive policy regarding migration into Israel. The discussion will [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan Sunday, hoping to buttress a shaky partnership that U.S. officials say is key to the escalating war in neighbouring Afghanistan. Clinton’s two-day visit will include talks with top military and civilian leaders as well as pledges of economic aid which Washington hopes will demonstrate to a sceptical [...]
A Kenyan woman has been arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Monday. The woman arriving on a flight from Ethiopia was arrested with over 2kg of crystal methamphetamine concealed in her luggage. Bangkok, the 12th of July 2010: Customs officials yesterday apprehended a Kenyan national, Miss Barbra Wabui, at Thailand’s main airport attempting to [...]
TEHRAN — Iran’s judiciary chief has temporarily halted the execution by stoning of a woman accused of adultery, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, quoting a judiciary official. But Malek Ajdar Sharifi, head of judiciary of East Azerbaijan province, said the crimes committed by Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani were “heinous” and her execution would take place [...]
KHAR, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers struck outside a government office Friday in a tribal region where the army has fought the Taliban, killing 62 people and wounding 111 in one of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan this year. The attack showed that Islamist militants remain a potent force in the northwest tribal [...]
