The issue that forced out his predecessor ? the refusal by Gilani to probe Zardari for alleged corruption ? may doom Ashraf as well, if the courts again demand he take such action.
During the 1960s, the US and the UK cooperated on a plan to clear a remote archipelago for military use. The exiled islanders are still fighting for their right to go back home.
Hope is quickly fading for about 90 individuals still missing after a boat bound for Australia capsized in heavy seas south of Indonesia near Christmas Island.
Afghan forces have freed 18 civilians and two militants after a Taliban attack on a popular lakeside hotel outside Kabul, but the siege continues and more hostages may be held, the city police chief said Friday.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest for violating the terms of his bail after entering the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he is seeking political asylum to avoid possible extradition to Sweden. But he may really be trying to escape the long arm of the United States, not the Swedish government.
Afghans have been fleeing their homeland in massive numbers since 1979 when Russian tanks invaded their mountainous nation
President Asif Ali Zardari, who is intimately involved in the intrigue surrounding Gilani?s removal from office, has cancelled a trip to Russia in order to deal with the emergency.
France's BFM-TV said the man had asked to speak to the same elite police unit that shot Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah, who died in a hail of bullets just 100 yards from the scene of today's siege.
Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, has fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patrino said.
Fearing the Taliban?s edicts against music, she recorded many of her albums in Dubai.
Refuting Taliban's claims that New Delhi rejected the U.S. call for greater engagement in Afghanistan, Washington praised India's huge role in Afghanistan while Pentagon said that the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's recent visit to India was very successful.
Notwithstanding India's strong opposition to the Taliban, the religious extremist group Sunday praised New Delhi for resisting the U.S. call for greater involvement in Afghanistan.
In the latest blow to international efforts to stem the spiraling bloodshed in Syria, the United Nations has announced it is suspending its observer mission.
The book ?Founding Myths? was particularly critical of what Garaudy viewed as excessive Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy.
The British minister held discussions with both Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and added that he urged a quick reconciliation.
A drone aircraft crashed around noon Monday on Maryland's Eastern shore near Salisbury, but did not cause any injuries or property damage, Naval officials said.
Children in Syria were tortured, executed and used as human shields by the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime during military raids against rebels, a U.N. report released Monday said.
Two earthquakes rocked Afghanistan Monday, killing up to as many as 100 people and causing a landslide that destroyed 20 houses.
Talks to reopen the route are stalled, but the withdrawal of the team of low-level specialists does not indicate a significant break in U.S.-Pakistan relations
On Friday, NATO apologized for the civilian deaths that resulted from an air strike in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
America's Got Talent contestant Timothy Michael Poe's sob story is unraveling further, as it now turns out that the photo he gave of a soldier in uniform in Afghanistan is a fraud.
Pillay says such measures raise serious legal issues.
