World's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden on Thursday warned that the Al Qaeda will kill American soldiers if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is executed. "The day America will take such a decision [to execute Khalid Mohamed and any others] it would have taken a decision to execute whoever we capture," bin Laden said in the latest audio record.He also said that Obama was "following the footsteps of his predecessor".
Army helicopters were taking part in efforts to extinguish the fire, the agency said in its report.
The Wagner forces also shot down several Russian aircraft, leading to the deaths of an undisclosed number of airmen whom Putin has praised as "fallen hero pilots."
Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, in a new audio tape, has warned France that five of its abducted citizens in Niger could be killed if it did not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and a new law that banned the burqa.
WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan have urged countries to continue enforcing health measures such as mask-wearing, social distancing, hand-washing and testing.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been re-elected to another six-year term after defeating opposition leader Henrique Capriles, electoral council has said.
Yemen appeared to be nearing a brink as protesters staged a 'million people march' onto the capital Sanaa after Friday prayers, amid reports that a shaky President Ali Abdullah Saleh was engaged in serious negotiations to time an exit.
The United States-led military coalition on Sunday hit Libyan defence targets with cruise missiles and launched air attacks as Muammar Gaddafi vowed to open his arms depots to the people to retaliate against the Western 'aggression.'
Mohamed Makhafa, a retired school teacher, says he considers the size 10s a "medal of freedom and more valuable than everything he owns", Al Jazeera news channel reported.
He calls the truce offer part of a game.
Always reported 'untoward things' during IPL to ACU, says Maxwell
The dreaded terrorist, however, also offered a 'long-term truce' to the Americans.
Ali al-Haidri is the most senior Iraqi official to be killed in Baghdad since the head of the Governing Council was killed by a suicide bomb in May last year.
Fallen Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have emptied the country's estimated gold reserves worth $10 billion and will use it to buy protection and wage a guerrilla war, the nation's former chief banker has said.
Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday rejected a plan for his exit mooted by Gulf states. Plunging his strife-torn nation into a new crisis, Saleh told a pro-regime rally in capital Saana that the exit plan mooted by Gulf Cooperation Council states is "blatant interference in Yemeni affairs". A defiant Saleh said, "We reject any coup against democracy, the constitution and our freedom."
Hundreds of rebel fighters were been pulled out by sea as Muammar Gaddafi's forces were on the verge of overrunning the key western city of Misrata after routing all opposition attacks on the eastern front, as the country's strongman and his sons appeared to be looking for a way out of the conflict.
Hammered by Muammar Gaddafi's tanks, heavy guns and rockets, rebel forces were in panicky retreat in east Libya on Wednesday, fleeing from the oil towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega prompting United States and its allies to mull arming the ragtag fighters.
Libyan forces on Tuesday struck back at the rebels hampering their march towards Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, as world leaders gathered in London to map out his early exit from power.
Libyan jets pummeled rebel-held Ras Lanuf and took control of oil town of Zawiyah, amid growing global pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to quit as France became the first country to recognise the opposition National Council.
Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi struck hard at rebels advancing towards Tripoli and pounded the oil port eastern city of Ras Lanuf, as the US mulled land and air options amid growing pressure to arm the out-gunned opposition.
Embattled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was pushed further to the brink as opposition forces stormed closer to the capital Tripoli and the international community stepped up pressure on him to leave the country to bring an end to the fighting that has claimed at least 1,000 lives.
Pakistan does not scare us, it worries us, Home Minister P Chidambaram said referring to the instability in the neighbouring country.
The United States has demanded that the whistle-blower website Wikileaks hand over all classified US military documents it has not yet published and remove existing material posted online, indicate emerging reports.
In a startling discovery, Arabic television channel Al Jazeera has found video footage of a American soldiers planning to distribute Bible printed in Pashtu and Dari languages, to locals in Afghanisthan. The books were printed and sent by a church in the US.
After a series of counter-attacks by troops of Muammar Gaddafi, the outgunned and loosely organised rebels were on Sunday pushed out of the eastern oil town of Brega, as the Arab League supported a 'no-fly' zone to halt the advance of the Libyan military to the opposition stronghold of Benghazi. The army loyal to Gaddafi has cleared 'armed gangs' from Brega, the Libyan state TV was quoted as saying by Al Jazeera channel. "Brega has been cleansed of armed gangs," it said.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has hinted that he is ready to give up power after 41 years, but only if a rebel interim council gives him a pile of cash and assures him immunity from criminal prosecution.The dictator is said to have proposed a meeting of the Libyan Parliament to agree to a transition period to pave the way for him to step down. His terms include immunity from criminal prosecution and a pile of cash.
Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League-N party, said he and former premier Benazir Bhutto wanted to return to Pakistan before the general elections, scheduled for later this year, in order to launch their campaigns.
Upon his arrival in Beirut on Thursday, the Iranian minister said, "Some European officials asked me if there were any chances that new fronts might open up against the Zionist regime?"
Did Pakistan reveal Osama bin Laden's position to the United States?
This is, perhaps, the first time since militants in Iraq began abducting foreigners that citizens of a Muslim nation were being killed.
The victims include five people under the age of 18 -- three girls and two boys - and an adult woman who accompanied her daughter to the concert.
Jamaat-ud-Dawaa chief Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack, on Wednesday claimed that he has never known Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested that night. "I never saw him. In fact, it was from the media in India that I discovered he was a Pakistani national," Saeed said in a rare interview to Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel in Lahore."I have never met Kasab nor have I ever known him and I have said this on many occasions," he said.
The list, according to media reports, also features reducing ties with Iran and closing a Turkish military base.
Ahead of the upcoming elections, political parties have started announcing incentives to benefit women, but what do women truly seek for genuine gender parity, asks Nivedita Mookerji.
Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dissolved Parliament on March 2 and the general election was scheduled on April 25.
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