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.
The 2020 race marks Biden's third attempt at running for US president. He first tried in 1988 but dropped out after allegations of plagiarism. He ended his second attempt in 2008 after garnering less than one per cent in the crucial Iowa caucuses.
In a new audio recording, Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has threatened to capture and kill Americans if Washington decides to execute the alleged 9/11 masterminds Khalid al Sheikh Mohammed or any other Al Qaeda suspects.
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.
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.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that the attack near the Iraqi border was carried out by 'terrorists recruited, trained, armed & paid by a foreign regime'.
'People are very scared. And frightened. There is apprehension of war.' 'We are under the shadow of swords from both sides and in the middle, we get crushed.' As the conflict between India and Pakistan dramatically escalates, villages along the Line of Control fear for their lives.
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.
Post his resignation, the former leader was jailed for years after the uprising but was freed in 2017 after he was acquitted of corruption charges and abuse of power.
Disputing reports that 20 Indian nationals were killed in air strikes by Saudi-led coalition forces at Yemen's Hodeidah port, the MEA said 13 Indians crew members "are alive and 7 are reported missing".
Peak oil has been a matter of discussion in recent times. Christophe de Margerie, the Chief Executive of Total in France, says the world will never produce 100 mn barrels per day of oil; we currently produce around 85 mn barrels per day of oil. In UK, it is widely understood by the general public that the U.K. is going to be a net importer of energy from now on. Peak oil is a reality. It may take a generation for all the effects to be played out but they will be played out.
This is, perhaps, the first time since militants in Iraq began abducting foreigners that citizens of a Muslim nation were being killed.
He calls the truce offer part of a game.
The dreaded terrorist, however, also offered a 'long-term truce' to the Americans.
The abductions were carried out by a previously unknown group called 'Swords of Righteousness Brigade'.
This is the first explicit claim of responsibility for the blasts, which claimed 56 lives, by the terrorist group headed by Osama bin Laden.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has rejected the spot-fixing charge made against the national team in a recently-released documentary as 'baseless' and said a probe can only be conducted if the broadcaster shares the footage.
Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has called upon Palestinian militant factions to shun mainstream politics and end the ceasefire with Israel, saying in a new video that jihad is the only way to bring about change in the Middle East.
The British prime minster on the Kashmir issue, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Zawahiri, who is shown wearing a black turban and white robe and speaking against a white background, said the video was to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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.
Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network carried out the July 7 London bombings, in a statement, marking the group's first direct claim of responsibility for the attacks that killed 52 people.
Most of the victims died of suffocation after they were arrested and packed tightly into trucks.
The suicide car bombing on Sunday, which ripped through a crowded shopping area and sparked fires in nearby buildings, also wounded more than 200 people, security and medical officials said.
Suha Arafat accused senior Palestinian leaders of trying to 'usurp' her husband's role as the leader of the Palestinian people.
In a new audiotape Al Qaeda also criticised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to India.
They want compensation for the families of the Iraqis who died fighting American troops in Fallujah and the release of all Iraqis held in US and Kuwaiti jails.
But the US plans to keep over 5,000 prisoners deemed a threat to the coalition forces.
The whole of Italy, a country of some 60 million people, was placed under quarantine as the government stepped up efforts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 10,000 people.
Samples taken from Yasser Arafat's body contained at least 18 times the normal levels of polonium, suggesting the Palestinian icon was poisoned with the radioactive material, Swiss scientists have said.
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