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Israeli PM vows to build in Jerusalem despite criticism

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday his government would press ahead with expanding Jewish settlements around Jerusalem despite Western criticism of

Final member of NBC team free after Syria kidnap

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

LONDON (AP) — The last missing member of an NBC team that was kidnapped in Syria has been freed and is safely in Turkey, NBC

In second verdict, war crimes court acquits Congolese

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

(Reuters) – Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was acquitted at the Hague war crimes court on Tuesday, after prosecutors failed to prove he ordered

Court rejects Strauss-Kahn’s call to drop sex inquiry

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

(Reuters) – A French court on Wednesday rejected a request by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to drop a sex offence inquiry in which he

Pakistan polio attacks: Three killed in Peshawar

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

Three health workers have died in gun attacks in Peshawar, the latest in a spate of strikes against a polio vaccination drive in Pakistan. A

Inquiry harshly criticizes State Department over Benghazi attack

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

(Reuters) – Security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya was grossly inadequate to deal with a September 11 attack that killed a U.S. ambassador

Egypt opposition to protest against “invalid” constitution

YoopyaDec 18, 20120

(Reuters) – Egypt’s opposition plans new protests on Tuesday against a planned Islamist-backed constitution that looks set to be approved in the second round of

Armed with rocket and maybe heir, Kim Jong-un remembers father

YoopyaDec 17, 20120

(Reuters) – North Korea may soon witness the birth of the fourth generation of its hereditary dictatorship as television pictures showed that the wife of the country’s

Kidnap gangs use leaked bank details to prey on Afghan tycoons

YoopyaDec 17, 20120

(Reuters) – Afghan construction magnate Haji Asadullah Ghaznawi was dragged from his office with a gun to his head and locked up in a slaughterhouse for almost

Chavez allies sweep Venezuela vote, but Capriles holds seat

YoopyaDec 17, 2012June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – Allies of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez swept to victory by taking nearly all of Venezuela’s 23 states in elections on Sunday, but Henrique