COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president has dissolved Parliament to pave the way for legislative elections, a senior government official said Tuesday, a day after a leading opposition figure was arrested
ABUJA: Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday to take over from the ill president of Nigeria. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed measures calling on Jonathan
TEHRAN: Iran announced on Tuesday it has begun further enriching uranium, dismissing warnings of new sanctions from world powers which suspect the Islamic republic’s nuclear project is aimed
CAIRO: An Egyptian cleric has issued a religious decree banning the use of Facebook, on the grounds that it encourages adultery. Sheikh Abd Al-Hamid Al-Atrash, former head of the fatwa council
SANAA: Yemen security forces said Tuesday that they had cleared new rebels strongholds while inflicting losses on the rebels in the process. They (the forces) successfully foiled infiltration
TOOR GHAR, Afghanistan: US Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taleban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year
KABUL: Massive avalanches roaring down a mountain pass north of Kabul may have killed more than 60 people Tuesday, Afghan officials said, as rescuers evacuated about 400 injured victims. Search-and-rescue
MUMBAI: The Mumbai police on Tuesday withdrew security of three Shiv Sena legislators on the orders of the Maharashtra government. The security detail were withdrawn following the legislators' demonstrations
NEW DELHI: India refused to grant permission Tuesday to the commercial cultivation of its first genetically modified (GM) food crop, citing problems of public trust and confidence. In a written
