Afghan prison staff tricked into freeing Taliban fighters
BBC Online :Prison officials in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar have been tricked into releasing a dozen Taliban fighters.The chief of security for Kandahar, Rahmatullah...
International
Dozens feared dead in Nigeria blasts
CNN :Dozens of people are feared dead after two explosions were reported in northern Nigeria. The blasts happened about two minutes apart Saturday evening in...
Abducted border guards freed in Pakistan: Iran
Reuters, Dubai :Five Iranian border guards reportedly seized and held captive in Pakistan for three weeks have been freed, an Iranian military official has been...
Britain unveils world’s largest aircraft
TNN, London :Britain has unveiled the world’s largest aircraft-a 300 feet long monster which is part plane, airship and helicopter, capable of flying non-stop for...
Pakistan to get Chinese submarines
TNN, Beijing :India’s submarine crisis comes just around the time China has begun arming two other neighbors, Pakistan and Bangladesh, with submarines. China has also...
Roadside bomb kills 11 Pak polio workers
BBC Online :A bomb attack on a polio vaccination team in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 11 people, officials sayA roadside bomb went off...
13 killed in N Yemen clashes
Reuters, Sanaa :At least 13 people died when Shi’ite Muslim fighters clashed with security forces in northern Yemen on Friday, government sources said, underlining the...
Foreigners detained as Venezuela protesters, security clash
AFP, Caracas :At least 41 people, including foreign reporters, were arrested in Caracas as security forces battled protesters angry at the policies of Venezuela’s leftist...
Obama warns Russia over intervention in Ukraine
New York Times :Ukraine’s fragile new government accused Russia of trying to provoke a military conflict on Friday by invading the Crimea region, while in...
Sonia buries alliance rumour with TMC
TNN, New Delhi :While leaders swore at each other in public, there was speculation of a last-minute ‘jote’ between once alliance Congress and Trinamool Congress...
S Korea warns Japan over sex slaves
BBC Online :South Korean President Park Geun-hye has warned Japan it will only bring isolation on itself if it reviews a statement acknowledging its wartime...
US judge summons Manmohan
IANS, New York :A US federal judge in Washington has granted a Sikh rights group’s plea to serve summons on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...