Published : Monday May 21, 2012 | Category : World | Views : 283
By : AFP
CHICAGO: More than 50 world leaders were gathering in Chicago for one of the biggest North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summits in history Sunday aiming to hammer out a unified exit strategy from Afghanistan after a decade of war. Read more
Published : Monday May 21, 2012 | Category : World | Views : 267
By : AFP
BOLOGNA, Italy: A powerful earthquake shook Italy’s industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing three people and felling homes and church steeples around the historic city of Ferrara. Read more
Published : Monday May 21, 2012 | Category : World | Views : 265
By : AFP
DAMASCUS: Fierce fighting between regime troops and armed rebels rocked parts of Damascus overnight, monitors said on Sunday, as the G8 called for a “political transition” to end relentless violence sweeping Syria. Read more
Published : Monday May 21, 2012 | Category : World | Views : 83
By : AFP
MYANMAR TO REOPEN ‘DEATH RAILWAY’YANGON: Myanmar aims to restore a stretch of the infamous “Death Railway” to Thailand which was initially built by Japanese-held prisoners of war, the minister in charge of the scheme told AFP. The railway was immortalized in the Oscar-winning film Read more
Published : Sunday May 20, 2012 | Category : World | Views : 283
By : AFP
BEIJING: Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng said on Saturday he was at Beijing’s international airport with his family and that he believed he would be flying to New York. Read more
