Yemen: Saudi strikes rebels; Iran warns of ‘dangerous step’
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition kept up raids against Huthi Shiite rebels on Friday in support of Yemen’s embattled president, who headed to an Arab summit to garner support as Iran warned the intervention was “dangerous”. Powerful explosions rocked Sanaa soon after rebel... read more »
New York fire, building collapse injure 12; gas blast blamed
An apartment building collapsed in a fiery burst of rubble on Thursday and flames spread to nearby buildings in what officials said appeared to be a gas-related explosion, injuring at least a dozen people and scattering debris across surrounding streets in the heart of Manhattan’s fashionable... read more »
Germanwings: Terrified passengers screamed as co-pilot ‘calmly’...
Paris: Passengers with moments to live screamed in terror and the pilot frantically pounded on the locked cockpit door as a 27-year-old German co-pilot deliberately and wordlessly smashed an Airbus carrying 150 people into an Alpine mountainside. The account on Thursday of the final moments of... read more »
Singapore Extends Viewing for Lee With Mile-Long Line
Singapore’s government extended viewing hours for people to file past the coffin of first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew as thousands lined up in the city’s midday heat. The line stretched across a mile mostly along the Singapore river through the financial district. Roads had been closed earlier... read more »
Sydney siege gunman’s wife taken into custody
The former partner of siege gunman Man Haron Monis will be taken into custody after her bail was revoked by a Sydney court. Amirah Droudis, 34, was in November 2013 charged with the murder... read more »
Pakistan hangs four prisoners as execution campaign widens
Pakistan hanged four Islamist militants on Sunday in the second set of executions since the government lifted a moratorium after the Taliban massacred 132 children and nine others at a... read more »
Regrouped Janata Parivar stages protest against Modi govt at Jantar Mantar
The regrouped Janata Parivar is staging a protest against the Narendra Modi government at Jantar Mantar over various issues on Monday. Six political parties of the erstwhile Janata Parivar... read more »
In 2008 Mumbai Killings, Piles of Spy Data, but an Uncompleted Puzzle
In the fall of 2008, a 30-year-old computer expert named Zarrar Shah roamed from outposts in the northern mountains of Pakistan to safe houses near the Arabian Sea, plotting mayhem in... read more »
In Ashton Carter, Nominee for Defense Secretary, a Change in Dire...
Ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation’s foremost national security leaders,” Mr. Obama said in announcing Mr. Carter’s nomination in the Roosevelt Room, which was filled with the... read more »
