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Typhoon Bears Down on Northeastern Japan
Typhoon Roke is on course to hit northeastern Japan after making landfall in the center of the country Wednesday, threatening to add to the destruction caused by the natural disasters that struck the region in March. The Japanese Meteorological Agency says Roke made landfall in the central city of Hamamatsu on the main island of…
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Afghanistan’s ‘man of peace’ slained
KABUL – A Taliban suicide bomber with concealed explosives in a turban on Tuesday assassinated former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading government peace efforts, police said. The bomber struck during a meeting at the Kabul home of Rabbani, who was last year appointed chief of the Afghan High Peace Council that President Hamid Karzai tasked…
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US hammers Pakistan over Haqqani network
WASHINGTON – The United States on Tuesday renewed blunt demands that Pakistan crack down on Haqqani militants based in the country, saying the network posed a serious threat to US forces in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters that Washington would “put as much pressure as possible on the Pakistanis to exercise control from their side…
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UN chief names special envoy to Libya
UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday named his special envoy to Libya, Ian Martin, as the head of the UN’s support mission in the country and the world body’s new representative to Tripoli. Martin has been coordinating the work of UN agencies in Libya with initiatives by the World Bank and “liaised closely”…
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Yemeni forces kill at least 23 protesters after fresh anti-regime protests
At least 23 people have been killed by Yemeni pro-regime forces – including snipers – in a second day of clashes shaking the country’s capital, Sana’a, medical and security officials said. Almost 50 people have died in the two days of fighting. It is the most serious outbreak of violence in months, as frustration again…