Many feared dead in massive blast at US power plant »
AGENCIES, 8 February 2010, 12:26am IST WASHINGTON: As many as 50 people may have been killed in an explosion on Sunday at a US energy plant in Connecticut, a hospital spokesman told “The reports vary from a few, several to possibly as many as 50 dead,” Brian Albert from the Middlesex hospital, which was treating [...]
Terror Inquiry Looks at Suspect’s Time in Britain »
Andrew Testa for The New York Times LONDON — Hit hard by the London transit system bombings in 2005, Britain keeps a close eye on Islamic extremists, and MI5, the covert domestic security agency, has said it carefully monitors Muslim campus groups. Yet one student president of the Islamic Society at the prestigious University College [...]
Al-Qaeda leader ‘killed’ in US raid »
Pakistan sent 30,000 troops into South Waziristan in October as part of its bid to crush the Taliban [AFP] A raid by a US drone aircraft in northwest Pakistan has killed a senior al-Qaeda leader, a US government official has said. Saleh al-Somali, the man in charge of al-Qaeda’s operations outside the Afghan-Pakistan region, was [...]
At Least 39 Dead in Russian Train Derailment »
Police officers stand guard at the site of a train derailment near the village of Uglovka, about 249 miles northwest of Moscow. BOLOGOVSKY, Russia (AP) — An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others, emergency officials said. The state-run railway [...]
At Least 87 Die in Chinese Mine Explosion »
Article Tools Sponsored By By KEITH BRADSHER Published: November 21, 2009 HONG KONG — A gas explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China early Saturday morning killed at least 87 people and left 66 others trapped deep underground, Chinese official media said. Rescuers waited on Saturday to go down a coal mine to search [...]
US, ASEAN Fail to Call for Suu Kyi’s Release »
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 14, 2009 SINGAPORE (AP) — President Barack Obama and his Southeast Asian counterparts are calling on Myanmar’s junta to hold credible elections, but have stopped short of demanding the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners. A joint statement to be issued after a [...]
Suicide car bomb kills 32 »
Pakistani police stand beside the wreckage of destroyed vehicles after a suicide car bomb in Charsadda on November 10, 2009. — PHOTO: AFP CHARSADDA (Pakistan) – A SUICIDE car bomb tore through a crowded shopping street in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 32 people in the third militant attack to strike the nuclear-armed country in as [...]
Fort Hood Shootings »
A CNN Special Investigation drills down on the causes and the impact of the Fort Hood shootings, at 8 p.m. ET Saturday on CNN TV. Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) — Thirteen flag-draped coffins left Fort Hood on Friday as authorities searched for a motive in the massacre that left more than 50 casualties at the [...]
Deadly Blast in Pakistan Casts Shadow Over Clinton’s Visit »
Article Tools Sponsored By By ISMAIL KHAN Published: October 28, 2009 PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The arrival of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pakistan was overshadowed Wednesday by a devastating car bomb that tore through a market in the northwest city of Peshawar, an attack aimed at civilians and marking a clear escalation in [...]
Pakistan Air Force Site Is Bombed »
Article Tools Sponsored By By JANE PERLEZ Published: October 23, 2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bombing at Pakistan’s premier aeronautical manufacturing complex killed seven people on Friday morning, the ninth attack on major government installations this month. Security personnel at a checkpoint after a suicide attack at an air force complex in Pakistan on [...]
