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| Iraqi Committee to Protect Journalists warns reporters on car bombs |
Amid what appears to be a trend in the killing of journalists in Iraq, the Iraqi Committee to Protect Journalists (ICPJ) issued a warning to media personnel to be on the lookout for car bombs.
"We call on all journalists and media staff to inspect the cars carefully before getting in the car, in case there is a bomb inside or around their car,"... |
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Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) positions in northern Iraq on Monday morning, three days after a PKK attack on a border post killed 15 Turkish soldiers.
According to a statement released by the Turkish General Staff, the warplanes bombed PKK positions in the mountainous Avasin region of northern...
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News about the latest emergency package to save Germany's real estate financier Hypo Real Estate Holding AG could not clear the gloomy atmosphere in far-away Asia. It was the same with the bail-out package for US financial institutions approved last week.
It was no longer the banking crisis alone that caused deep concern in Japan...
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Pressed by military and partly disgusted by brutality exercised by Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, Pakistani tribesmen are rising up against Islamic militancy in some parts of the tribal region along Afghan border and other areas.
Three ethnic Pashtun tribes in Bajaur district - the Salarzai, Tarkhani and Utmankhel - raised a...
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Arab League envoy to Iraq, Hani Khalaf, is expected on Monday to resume the diplomatic work of the Arab League mission in Baghdad, the state Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.
In July Arab League Chief Amr Mussa appointed the retired diplomat, an Egyptian national, to head the Arab League representation in Iraq.
Khalaf made a...
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South Korean President Lee Myung Bak proposed a three-nation financial summit this month with Japan and China to try to limit the effects of the global financial crisis, a ruling party spokesman said Monday.
Lee would like the meeting to take place at the Asia-Europe Summit, which is to be held October 24-25 in Beijing, the Grand...
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A suicide bomber killed least 27 people, including an opposition politician and former military officer who spearheaded military operations against Tamil rebels, and injured 94 others in north-central Sri Lanka Monday, police said.
Retired Major General Janaka Perera was taking part in the opening of a political office of his party -...
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At least six people were killed and more than two dozen injured on Monday when a bomb ripped through the house of a lawmaker in Pakistan's central province of Punjab, the police said.
The explosion occurred when Rashid Akbar Nawani, a member of lower house of the parliament, the National Assembly, was meeting his supporters at his...
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Asian stocks nosedived throughout the region Monday as investors feared the US bail-out would fall far short of resolving the financial crisis that has also spread to Europe.
Stocks in Tokyo plunged to their lowest levels in five years on worries about the deepening global crisis despite the US Congress' approval of a...
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The Iraqi Ministry of Interior has launched investigations into cases of 48 media personnel who were either killed or subjected to acts of violence, the director of the ministry's National Command Center said Monday.
"Investigations have been launched following the establishment of a partnership with the Journalistic Freedoms...
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The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) said Friday that international judges returned to work in the volatile town of Mitrovica six months after their violent ouster.
"The reopening of the court in north Mitrovica is a first step to ensure that rule of law is provided to everyone in Kosovo," UNMIK said in a...
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 Kyrgyzstan Earthquake Killed Sixty People
A powerful earthquake shook Kyrgyzstan, close to China’s border. Sixty people were killed during the calamity, as the top emergency official of Kyrgyzstan announced on...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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