Anti-regime demos across Syria, troops fire on protesters

Syrian troops opened fired on democracy activists on Friday who took to the streets across the country demanding regime change, monitors said, as armed rebels vowed to protect peaceful protests. Several...

Queen marks diamond jubilee riding wave of popularity

Millions of people will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee in Britain as the monarch marks 60 years on the throne in the knowledge that the royal family has never...

Scottish nationalists launch ‘Yes’ referendum campaign

Scottish nationalists launched an official “yes” campaign for independence on Friday ahead of a likely 2014 referendum on severing the more than 300-year-old union with England. First Minister Alex Salmond...

Quebec protests resume after mass arrests

Thousands of protesters returned to the streets across Quebec late Thursday in defiance of a new law regulating demonstrations and despite the arrest of some 1,000 protesters this week. The latest...

Suicide bombing kills one policeman in Turkey

A suicide bomb squad killed a policeman and wounded more than a dozen people in central Turkey on Friday after driving into a police station and opening fire, Turkish officials...

13 killed in suicide attack on Yemen Shia rebels

A suicide attacker Friday drove his bomb-laden vehicle into a post held by Shiite Zaidi rebels in north Yemen, killing 13 people, including three children, a tribal chief and witnesses...

Russia says Iran talks on track despite differences

Russia on Friday called the latest round of talks on the Iranian nuclear standoff “constructive” despite big differences that remain as the parties head for more negotiations in Moscow next...

China calls US rights report ‘prejudiced’

China on Friday strongly criticised a US report accusing it of human rights violations, calling the document “fraught with prejudice”, and issued a scathing critique of the United States’ own...

26th May, 2012