Daily News Channel
A military offensive to rid Pakistan’s northwest of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters has killed more than 1,000 militants since it began in full force earlier this month, the country’s interior ministry said Sunday.
The Sri Lankan army destroyed six Tamil Tiger boats and killed 70 rebels in a lagoon on the western edge of a no-fire zone early Sunday, Sri Lanka’s Media Center for National Security has said. Independent reports were not possible since media are not allowed into the area.
Kuwait elected its first female lawmakers in the conservative Gulf state where men have dominated parliament for nearly five decades. Four women won parliamentary seats in the general elections Saturday, the official Kuwait News Agency said
Volunteering at church. Working part-time at a bookstore. Selling real estate
Army Maj. Steven Hutchison fought battles in the jungles of Vietnam.
Three charges have been filed against a Missouri man who is accused of swimming across a lake and sneaking into the home of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi while she was under house arrest, a U.S. Embassy official said Friday. A hearing for John Yettaw was held Friday at Insein Prison near Yangon, where Suu Kyi also is being held.
Britain’s justice minister became the latest politician ensnared in an escalating parliamentary expenses scandal when he decided Friday to step down. Shahid Malik will remain a member of Parliament but is stepping down from his justice minister role pending an inquiry into his controversial expense claims, the prime minister’s office said
If President Barack Obama had hoped to ease his way in to dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, January’s war in Gaza made the issue an urgent priority for his new Administration. Three weeks of pummeling by Israel aimed at dislodging the Palestinian militants of Hamas had left many thousands of Palestinians living in smoldering rubble. It had enraged the Arab world and enfeebled the moderate Palestinian leadership on which Washington had long relied to deliver peace with Israel
After years of controversy and opposition from local retailers, Wal-Mart this month is poised to open its first store in India, launching an expansion that will include 10 more big-box outlets in the potentially vast Indian market over the next two years. But Indian consumers won’t be able to partake of Wal-Mart’s everyday low prices
On a dusty pitch in the middle of the capital of Monrovia limbless young men play football as though their lives depended on it. They are members of the Liberian National Amputee Football Team and for the most part, victims of the war. Some participated in cruel acts against civilians during the fighting and face a daily struggle to live with both their disability and the past.