Saudi officials have said they have no suspicions about Osama Bin Laden’s widows and children, who arrived in the kingdom late last week. The three women and reportedly 11 children were deported from Pakistan last week. A spokesman said the kingdom had acted out of “humanitarian considerations” in offering shelter to the group. The group [...]
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is under U.S. protection in Beijing after an audacious escape from 19 months under house arrest, a U.S.-based group said on Saturday, in a drama that threatens to ignite new tensions between the two governments. The United States has not confirmed publicly reports that Chen, who slipped away from under [...]
Norwegian anti-Islamic fanatic Anders Behring Breivik told a court on Thursday that he used computer games to prepare for his attacks, once spending an entire year isolated from society playing a game for hours on end. Breivik, on trial for massacring 77 people last July, said he spent “lots of time” playing Modern Warfare, a [...]
A US-based Chinese-language website that has reported extensively on the Bo Xilai scandal in China says it was crippled for several hours by a concerted hacking attack. The Boxun website had to move to a new webhost after the denial-of-service attack on Friday, its manager said. Boxun has reported for several weeks on the scandal [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama urged Sudan and South Sudan to resolve their outstanding issues through dialogue and avoid a return to war amid soaring tensions between the neighboring nations. Clashes have escalated between Sudan and South Sudan in recent days following Sudan airstrikes targeting the South and the latter seizing the disputed oil-rich region of [...]
China has urged support for its probe into disgraced leader Bo Xilai, a day after news of his dismissal and the detention of his wife over the death of a UK businessman shocked the country. A widely-published piece in party newspaper People’s Daily praised the “correct decision”, saying it showed respect for the rule of [...]
A deadline for Syrian troops to withdraw from cities came and went Tuesday morning, but opposition activists say the regime’s onslaught rages on. At least 12 people, including three children, were killed in mortar and missile attacks on the besieged city of Homs, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said. One opposition activist in [...]
President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing. The study is set to be released Tuesday by Charles [...]
More than three years ago, the CIA dispatched a stealth surveillance drone into the skies over Iran. The bat-winged aircraft penetrated more than 600 miles inside the country, captured images of Iran’s secret nuclear facility at Qom and then flew home. All the while, analysts at the CIA and other agencies watched carefully for any [...]
Rescue crews continued their frantic search Sunday at a Himalayan military outpost near the Indian border where a massive avalanche buried up to 139 people, most of them Pakistani soldiers. A blanket of rock and snow covering one square kilometer — about the size of a large city block — slid over the base on [...]