Phrases such as “beat your meat,” “fairy,” and “lovegun” are among the list of words banned in text messagesby the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority. On November 14, mobile phone companies operating in the Islamic country were handed the list of words with a letter explaining that they have to block those words on their networks within seven [...]
The jubilant reaction of Western powers and the foes of Muammar Gaddafi to his barbaric murder on October 20, 2011 raises some serious questions about war crimes committed by the Western-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters and NATO forces. There are two serious violations of international law here, namely, (1) in relation to the Third [...]
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is suspending its publication of classified files. Wikileaks said that it would focus instead on raising funds to ensure its future survival. The announcement came after what the group called a blockade by US-based finance companies. This followed its disclosure on the internet of hundreds of thousands of secret US government files and diplomatic [...]
(Reuters) – Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured and wounded near his hometown of Sirte at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid said on Thursday. The senior NTC military official told Reuters by telephone that the head of Gaddafi’s [...]
Anti-Gaddafi fighters launched a fresh assault on Wednesday against the ousted strongman’s remaining holdouts, now pinned into a small corner of his hometown Sirte. The fighting was concentrated in the outer streets of Sirte’s Number Two neighbourhood, with both sides trading heavy gunfire and bombarding each other with mortar shells. Ali al-Rikabi, field commander of the National [...]
Fighting that raged for hours in Kabul Tuesday afternoon after a dramatic Taliban attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO’s command calmed down greatly during the evening hours, a military spokesman told CNN But the strike in central Kabul and two other brazen assaults across the city left residents unnerved, and security forces braced for [...]
A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed just after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into a riverbank on the [...]
The Russian head of the World Chess Federation said he spoke Tuesday with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and that he remains in Tripoli and defiant. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has known Gadhafi for years. His visit to Tripoli this summer was the last time the Libyan leader was seen in public after NATO airstrikes began. The two [...]
Russia’s first stealth fighter jet had to abort a takeoff at Moscow’s International Aviation and Space Show on Sunday because of what officials said was a malfunction in the right engine. The T-50 did not leave the runway and was slowed by a brake parachute. The twin-engined jet was traveling at 60 miles per hour [...]
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called on his followers to prepare for the “battle to liberate” rebel-held towns in an audio message on Libyan television. Much of the message was inaudible due to a “technical breakdown”, according to the television station which broadcast “live” Gaddafi’s statement as rumours circulated on Twitter and in certain media [...]
Looting and arson by gangs of youths spread Monday from poor northern districts ofLondon to the south, to tourist areas of the capital and toBritain’s second-largest city as police flooded the streets and announced scores of new arrests. Prime Minister David Cameron and other senior officials broke off their vacations and returned to London to [...]
A North Atlantic Treaty Organization CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down in an eastern province of Afghanistan, killing 30 U.S. special operations forces, seven Afghan commandos and a civilian interpreter. Twenty-two of the Americans killed were members of the U.S. Navy SEAL commando force, some from the elite unit once known as SEAL Team Six [...]
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle sails on June 13, 2011 off the Libyan coast Libyan government forces fired a missile at an Italian warship in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday in a rare attack on the NATO fleet offshore, a government spokesman said. The frigate Bersagliere was about 19 kilometers (12 miles) off the [...]
Libya’s rebels say their military chief was shot dead in an incident that remains shrouded in mystery and may point to deep divisions within the movement trying to oust Muammar Gaddafi. The killing, announced late on Thursday, came as the rebels launched an offensive in the west and won further international recognition, which they hope [...]
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