Protesters take part in an anti-regime rally in Morocco Moroccan demonstrators have once again taken to the streets of the northern city of Tanjier to protest against high unemployment and social corruption in the country. The Monday rally was organized by the February 20 Youth Movement-- a group largely consisting of students. The North African nation has witnessed a wave of anti-government protests over t ...

The missile, which has a flight range of up to 290 kilometers, is capable of carrying a conventional warhead of 300 kilogrammes. BHUBANESHWAR: India today successfully test fired a supersonic cruise missile, BrahMos, as part of a user trial by the army from a test range at Chandipur off the coast of Orissa. The missile, which has a flight range of up to 290 kilometers, is capable of carrying a conventional ...

"Give us the (drone) technology and we will use it. US has given us F16s. Are we misusing it?" DUBAI: Pakistan’s spy chief will call for an end to US drone strikes in its tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and push for a sharing of technology and intelligence during a visit to Washington this week, the country’s interior minister said on Monday. Lieutenant-General Zaheer ul-Islam’s visit to meet CIA directo ...

A Pakistani protester holds a burning Myanmar flag during a demonstration in Multan on July 27, 2012. YANGON: Myanmar on Monday told a UN rights envoy it had rejected accusations of abuse by security forces in the wake of communal unrest, after the United Nations raised fears of a crackdown on Muslims. In a press conference attended by UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana, Myanmar’s foreign minister sa ...

There is a solemn resolve in the Syrian regime for a full-scale confrontation with the enemy, as there is no other way but to expel the terrorists, enemies and aggressors.” Deputy Head of the Iranian Armed Forces' Chiefs of Staff Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri A senior Iranian commander says Syria is on course to become the site of the “third heavy defeat” of the US and its allies in the region. In an i ...

People wait outside the central mosque in the northern Nigeria city of Kano on May 15, 2012. At least eight people have been killed in separate incidents of violence, which included an attack on fasting Muslims, in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Late on Sunday, unidentified gunmen opened fire in an area near a mosque while Muslims were performing Ramadan prayers after breaking their fast, a senior poli ...

AP Photo TEHRAN: A Tehran court has sentenced to death four people convicted in Iran’s biggest-ever banking scandal, according to the national chief prosecutor on Monday, quoted by the official news agency IRNA. The sentences came at the end of a trial of 39 suspects that started in February. The magnitude of the scandal was estimated at $2.6 billion when it came to light in September last year. “According ...

A US Air Force F-15E releases a GBU-28 "Bunker Buster" 5,000-pound Laser-Guided Bomb. (File photo) India, the ally Israel has “banked” on to offset this possibility, now stands between two budding nuclear superpowers, Pakistan and China, and would be forced to stand down. This would force nuclear intervention by the US which would immediately bring about a massive nuclear response by China and trigger a str ...

Electricity short circuit sparked an inferno as sehri transmission was being aired. LAHORE: Four television guests were killed reciting prayers during a live Ramadan broadcast in Pakistan on Monday, when fire gutted a studio in Lahore, police said. An electricity short circuit sparked an inferno at the Koh-e-Noor channel building at 3:46 am as Sehri transmission was being aired. “At least four local guests, ...

Hussain says that everyone knows which influential organisation is involved in kidnappings of businessmen. PHOTO: FILE Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has warned the government to end extortion and the rising crimes in Karachi or the party will expose those involved in conspiring against the city. According to a press release by the MQM, Hussain was speaking to the members of Coordination ...