The leader of Colombia’s left wing Farc rebel group, Alfonso Cano, has been killed in a military raid, President Juan Manuel Santos has confirmed. He called it the most devastating blow to the group in its decades-long insurgency and urged it to disband. Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said Cano was killed in an operation [...]
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou won a confidence vote in Parliament early Saturday by a narrow margin, giving his country’s stricken economy some breathing room, but no panacea. The 153-145 vote victory came minutes after Papandreou announced that he will seek a coalition government, though it was not immediately clear whether he would lead it. [...]
A senior U.S. military official said on Friday Iran had become the biggest threat to the United States and Israel’s president said the military option to stop the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons was nearer. In Tehran, thousands of students burned U.S. flags and pictures of President Barack Obama in a rally marking the [...]
The fervent wait for Indian batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international century is likely to overshadow the three-Test series against the West Indies starting on Sunday. Tendulkar’s bid for an unprecedented century of centuries has been the talking point ever since he hammered his 99th international hundred against South Africa at the World Cup in [...]
The Israeli navy has boarded two protest boats heading to Gaza to try to break the blockade of the Palestinian territory. The military said forces moved after repeated calls for the boats to turn around were ignored. The boarding was carried out peacefully and nobody was hurt, it said. The protest boats were the latest [...]
The Canadian government will not accept for two years new applications for the migration of parents and grandparents of immigrants under sponsored visas. Instead, a 10-year multiple-entry ‘Parent and Grandparent Super Visa’ would allow them to visit their loved ones in Canada for up to two years at a time from next month, the country’s [...]