Israeli police said on Sunday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should face criminal charges, issuing a non-binding recommendation in a corruption scandal driving him from office in the midst of peace talks with the Palestinians.”Police today recommended to indict Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in two separate cases,” said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
The police said they […]
Military chiefs are to meet with an animal rights group on Tuesday to discuss alternatives to the traditional bearskin hats famously worn by the guards at Buckingham Palace.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) are to hald talks with Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials to put forward what they say are ethical alternatives […]
A humanitarian plane went missing during a storm in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, U.N. humanitarian coordinator OCHA said.
“We have a missing plane. We don’t know if it’s landed or crashed,” Christophe Illemassene, spokesman in Congo for the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told Reuters.
“We […]
For the rest of the world, the disappearance of the imam Moussa al-Sadr is probably at most a footnote in the checkered history of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. In 1978, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim religious leader flew to Tripoli for a week of talks with Libyan officials. He was never seen or heard from again.
But […]
A prominent Puerto Rican senator who was targeted in a federal raid said Sunday he will continue a bid for re-election, rejecting calls from his party’s leader to drop out of the race.
Sen. Jorge De Castro Font has garnered little public support from colleagues in the opposition New Progressive Party as he aims for a […]
A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in the midst of a celebration to welcome home an Iraqi detainee released from U.S. custody, killing at least 25 people, Iraqi officials said.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, announced the arrest of an al-Qaida in Iraq figure who allegedly planned the 2006 kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll — […]
A 61-year-old Japanese woman gave birth to her own grandchild, using an egg donated by her daughter, a clinic said Thursday.
Surrogate births are extremely rare in Japan and banned by industry groups, but they are not illegal. The Suwa Maternity Clinic in Nagano, northwest of Tokyo, refused to provide information such as the date of […]
The Congress on Monday warned the separatists in Kashmir to desist from internationalising the situation arising out of the Amarnath land transfer row in the border state saying such attempts would not be “tolerated”.
“The march of the Hurriyat Conference and the separatists to the UN office and attempts to internationalise the situation is unfortunate,” said […]
Russia is moving launchers for short-range ballistic missiles into South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia, in an apparent effort to tighten its control over it, following the recent military confrontation with Georgia, a media report said on Monday.
Citing American officials familiar with intelligence reports, the New York Times said that Moscow had deployed several […]
Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists from the U.S.-based animal rights group Sea Shepherd for allegedly attacking Japanese whaling ships last year, an official said Monday.
Kyodo News agency quoted unnamed Tokyo Metropolitan Police investigators as saying authorities had applied to a Japanese court for warrants for the three, and that police planned […]