Rio de Janeiro, March 15 (IANS/EFE) The Frei Caneca Penitentiary Complex, Brazil’s oldest prison built in 1850, has been demolished to make way for the construction of 2,500 public housing units, the official Agencia Brasil news agency reported.
The prison’s eight cellblocks were imploded in 18 seconds Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, where the facility was [...]
Washington, March 15 (IANS) The backlash from Taliban attacks on places from Kashmir to Karachi has led to greater Pakistani cooperation with the US in the Afghanistan war, says the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“We feel clearly that we’re working more closely together with them. And I think that’s a very big step [...]
Washington, March 15 (IANS) India and the US hope to significantly expand bilateral cooperation in critical areas like defence/strategic trade, civil nuclear cooperation, biotechnology, nano-technology and civil aviation after two-day talks on high technology starting here Monday.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao arrived here Sunday to co-chair the seventh meeting of the India-US High Technology Cooperation [...]
Bangkok, March 15 (DPA) Tens of thousands of protesters launched a car convoy on the Thai government’s peace-keeping command headquarters in Bangkok in an effort to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve parliament and call for new elections.
Over the weekend the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), also called the red shirts for [...]
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, March 15 (IANS) A controversial cartoon in a Montreal newspaper at the weekend has further fuelled the niqab controversy and angered Muslims in Canada.
The controversy, which was sparked by a Muslim woman’s refusal in November to remove her veil in her French language class in Montreal, has been further inflamed by the [...]
Sana’a (Yemen), March 15 (DPA) At least two senior members of Al Qaeda were killed in an airstrike by the Yemeni Air Force in a remote village in the south of the Arab country late Sunday, the Defence Ministry said.
The air raid targeted a gathering of Al Qaeda members in the Moudiya district of Abyan [...]
London, March 7 (IANS) China is farming African wild Rhinos in order to harvest their horns for alleged medicinal properties, a newspaper reported Sunday quoting a report by international conservation monitors.
China has imported 141 live white rhino from South Africa since 2000 – far more than is needed to promote tourism – with the possible [...]
Concepcion (Chile), March 7 (IANS/EFE) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Saturday visited the Chilean city of Concepcion, one of the worst affected by the Feb 27 earthquake.
Ban went to Concepcion’s so-called “ground zero” in the city’s downtown area, and said he was “astonished” by the destruction wrought by the magnitude-8.8 earthquake in the capital of the [...]
Dhaka, March 7 (IANS) Border guards of Bangladesh and India begin talks in New Delhi Sunday hoping the “spirit of the two prime ministers” would percolate down to the men who guard the 4,300 km frontier on both sides.
Leading a 19-member delegation to talks, Director General of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Maj Gen Md Mainul Islam, [...]
Baghdad, March 7 (DPA) Iraqis headed to the polls amid heavy security Sunday morning to cast their votes in the second parliamentary election since the US overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003.
Three people were killed by a car bomb Saturday in Najaf, the interior ministry said. More than 50 other people, including 37 Iranians, [...]
