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‘America’s first female black prisoner of war says was portrayed differently because of her race’ Friday, February 05, 2010 WASHINGTON: Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a prisoner of war in Iraq. Life wasn’t so easy when she came home, either. In a new...

Updated at: 0100 PST, Friday, February 05, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE: Ten American Christians were Thursday charged in quake-hit Haiti with child abduction and criminal conspiracy, but should not be sent for trial in the United States, officials said. "It is Haitian law that has been...

Friday, January 29, 2010,10:27 [IST] Islamabad, Jan.29 (ANI): US security trainers, who were running a camp to impart counter-terror training to Pakistani officials at the Police Training College in Sihala, have refused to move out of their base following the government's decision to close the...

A US military contractor has said it will stop engraving Biblical references on rifles used by the US army. The markings, in the form of coded references, have been appearing on products made by the US firm Trijicon, based in Michigan, for decades. But on Thursday, US military chief Gen...

Some 150 FBI agents were involved in searches and arrest The US has charged 22 executives or employees of security-related firms with conspiring to bribe an African country over a $15m (£9m) arms sale. Some 150 FBI agents took part in an operation involving a sting, which led to the...

Afghans paid $2.5bn (£1.5bn) in bribes over the past 12 months, or the equivalent of almost one quarter of legitimate GDP, a UN report suggests. Surveying 7,600 people, it found nearly 60% more concerned about corruption than insecurity or unemployment. More than half the population had to...

Updated at: 2140 PST, Sunday, January 17, 2010 KABUL: The U.S. supports a proposal to lure fighters with no strong allegiance to terrorists away from the insurgency and reintegrate them into Afghan society, the American special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan said Sunday. Richard...

The number of Afghan civilians killed in violence in 2009 was higher than in any year since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, a United Nations report says. Civilian casualties rose by 14% in 2009 compared with 2008, the UN Mission in Afghanistan (Unama) reported. It said the "vast majority"...

Updated at: 1050 PST, Wednesday, January 13, 2010 WASHINGTON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai denied on Tuesday the United States had ever given his country a "blank check" but said he was grateful for the "little money" sent by Washington to Afghanistan. In an interview with US media, Karzai...

Detective Neil Smyth: "I believe there's no reason at this stage to consider this in any way racially motivated." An Indian man is in a serious condition in a Melbourne hospital after being attacked and set alight by a gang. It comes a week after an Indian graduate student was stabbed to...

President Garcia told the press that he considers as “correct” the decision of the Army and the Ministry of Defense to purchase Chinese tanks, and stressed that such a decision "doesn't contradict our vocation against an arms race."He advanced that this acquisition is “almost a fact” and that...

By: Syed Fawad Ali Shah | Published: January 06, 2010 PESHAWAR – Most of the American government officials working in Pakistan have arrived here without getting proper visas, a senior security official on condition of anonymity told TheNation here on Tuesday. They have stopped seeking...

Friday, January 01, 2010 Bureau report PESHAWAR: The head of a private hospital here Thursday said that his car had struck by a vehicle belonging to US Consulate but its officials refused to repair the vehicle or pay him compensation. Speaking at a news conference, Jehangir Raza said the...

Eight Americans reportedly working for the CIA have died in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, the worst against US intelligence officials since 2001. A bomber wearing an explosive vest entered Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province, near Pakistan. A Taliban spokesman has said one of...

RAWALPINDI: The PPP Punjab President Rana Aftab Ahmad Khan and senior provincial minister Raja Riaz Ahmad Khan have declared that enough is enough and from now on the party would adopt the course of confrontation instead of the traditional conciliatory policy so far adopted. They said Kamran...

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