More than 100 people, nearly half of them Afghan civilians, were killed in Nato air strikes against the Taliban this weekend, an investigation by local...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard Monday denied a crackdown on child sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal communities was an election stunt, after a poll...
Australia admitted for the first time on Thursday that securing an oil supply is a key factor behind its involvement in the US-led war in Iraq. Brendan Nelson,...
Leading Sunnis in Iraq’s Parliament continued Wednesday to snub a set of U.S.-supported oil laws “Iraq has the greatest oil reserves in the world,” Umara...
Militant students of Lal Masjid exchanged gun fire with Pakistan paramilitary rangers In what is seen as yet another standoff between the radical clerics and ...
THE prime minister's admission that the invasion of Iraq was linked to securing the oil supply is damning, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown says. Greens slam...
Australian hurt by London blast in anti-Iraq war ad AN AUSTRALIAN woman injured in the 2005 London terrorist attacks has appeared in a television advertisement...
Deadly germs may be more likely to be spread due to a biodefence lab accident than a biological attack by terrorists. Plague of bioweapons accidents afflicts...
THE closest the CIA came to killing Cuba's Fidel Castro was a 1963 attempt with a poison pill delivered by American mobsters that was to be slipped into a...
The war in Iraq has been a series of errors, so it's only fitting that the exit plan should have its share of miscues, too. Yesterday, Sen. Pete Domenici...
Followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday joined a growing chorus of Sunni Arab, Kurdish and Shiite opposition to a draft oil law backed by...
Several countries in Europe are bringing in measures and stepping up threat levels to prevent recent outbreaks of deadly H5N1 avian flu in the wild bird...
The siege of a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital entered its third day Friday after troops rocked the complex with gunfire and explosions and Islamic...
Police in Australia have seized new evidence and questioned five more doctors over last week's failed car bomb attacks in the UK. New Australia raids over UK...
The New York Times on Sunday called for US troops to leave Iraq now, writing that President George W. Bush's plan to stabilize the country through military...
Faced with Republican defections, senior US officials are debating whether President George W. Bush should announce soon his intention to begin a gradual...
AN MP for New Zealand's Maori Party has labelled Australian Prime Minister John Howard a "racist bastard" for his radical intervention aimed at stopping child...
Government forces tightened the noose on the Red Mosque yesterday as a top commando died in an operation to blast through the wall around the compound and...
Reports that Turkey has massed a huge military force on its border with Iraq bolstered fears that an invasion targeting hideouts of Kurdish rebels could be...
Representatives from the world's least developed countries and UN experts drew a bleak picture of the impact of globalisation on poor communities at the start...
Pakistani forces have stormed Islamabad's Red Mosque after talks to end a week-long stand-off with radical militants holed up inside broke down. The assault...
Four thousand U.S. service members have died in U.S. President George W. Bush's ``war on terror'' in Iraq and Afghanistan 5 1/2 years after American forces...
OPPOSITION to the Iraq war has climbed to a record high and President George W. Bush's approval rating dropped to a new low amid growing dissent from members...
The Maori Party Caucus today called a special caucus meeting to consider the Australian Government's response to the report, describing it as a sledge-hammer...
PROTESTS are planned across Australia this Saturday against Canberra's plans to seize control of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. Day of...
Dozens of bodies of alleged militants were buried without the presence of relatives in Islamabad Thursday amid claims that hundreds of people died when troops...
The US Congress was Thursday set to launch a fresh attempt to wrest control of the Iraq war from President George W. Bush, as a critical moment neared in the...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about worsening violence in Iraq and where US policy on Iraq might be heading. It is an...
Defying a White House veto threat, the US House of Representatives has approved legislation to bring combat troops out of Iraq by April 1, 2008. By a vote of...
ABOUT 100 protesters, angry at John Howard's intervention in the Northern Territory, surged at the Prime Minister's car in Launceston yesterday. Indigenous...