December 25, 2009 - Page 4

On fewer than 30 suspected al-Qaeda militants have been killed by an air strike in a remote mountainous area of Yemen, security officials said yesterday. An unnamed official told reporters the strike

FIFTEEN Israeli civilians wounded in Palestinian rocket attacks have petitioned a Belgian court to issue arrest warrants against leaders of the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas movement. The legal action follows a series

A COURT in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced five people to death for their role in July's deadly ethnic riots, the worst in decades. The sentences, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported,

IRANIAN authorities have banned memorials for the country's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, and reiterated a stern warning to the opposition yesterday, after days of services in honour

FOR Iraqi Christians, Christmas celebrations will be under tighter wraps than usual as it comes at the same time as Ashoura, a period of Shiite mourning and self-flagellation. Therefore, with the Shiite

PRESIDENT Barack Obama was yesterday handed a Christmas Eve victory as the American Senate passed a $871 billion health care reform bill, his top domestic priority. The bill, the Cable News Network