An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
A string of steamy text messages has resulted in a jail sentence for an Indian couple, local media announced Wednesday, in the latest case of passions clashing with the law in the cosmopolitan, yet occasionally conservative, Gulf city of Dubai.
Turkey's prime minister has warned that he might deport up to 100,000 Armenians living in Turkey without citizenship after resolutions passed by U.S. and Swedish lawmakers defining World War One-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.
The gesture is the latest move by the anti-government United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, or UDD, to force Abhisit to dissolve parliament and call new elections.
Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel, killing a Thai farm worker, while the European Union's foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave.
A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which participants obey orders to deliver powerful electric shocks to a man until he appears to die.
A missile strike killed a top al-Qaida leader believed to have been a key player in the suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say.
Relentless attacks against al-Qaeda in the Pakistan tribal region appear to have driven Osama bin Laden and other top leaders deeper into hiding, CIA Director Leon Panetta says.
After losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban are fighting back, launching a campaign of assassination, threats to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its allies.
