Iran prez seeks new legitimacy in visit to Brazil

Dozens of asylum seekers injured in detention riot

Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers were separated at an island immigration detention center after a riot left 37 injured, an official said Monday.

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Bermuda dismisses ammunition case against US woman

Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her gun to the British island territory.

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Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark.

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Iraq PM ramps up attacks on Baathists before vote

A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections.

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Egypt's media stoked soccer fan anger with Algeria

Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop windows and shouting obscenities in a frenzy fed by venomous headlines that portrayed Algerians as barbaric terrorists with a history of violence.

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Venezuela to get 300 tanks, armored vehicles

President Hugo Chavez is hailing the forthcoming arrival of 300 Russian-made tanks and armored vehicles, and urging civilians to join government-organized militias to be ready to defend Venezuela from a foreign invasion.

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Palestinian nun takes step toward sainthood

A Palestinian nun who co-founded a charity dedicated to educating Arab girls on Sunday took an important step toward sainthood.

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Algeria court acquits 2 former Guantanamo inmates

An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said.

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Russian cosmonaut Feoktistov dies at 83

Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, has died at the age of 83.

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Egypt's president warns Israel over Jerusalem

Egypt's president on Sunday criticized Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlement activity in the disputed sector of the holy city threatens to anger the entire Muslim world.

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Police: IRA dissidents plant car bomb in Belfast

Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander said Sunday.

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Dalai Lama says Obama not soft on China

The Dalai Lama defended President Barack Obama from criticism that he has been too soft on China, saying Sunday that the U.S. leader just has a different approach to dealing with the Asian giant.

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Report: Leaked UK documents detail Iraq war chaos

Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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Ugandans upset over Chavez' kind words for Amin

Ugandan officials were offended Sunday after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wondered out loud whether Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was truly as brutal as he was reputed to be.

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Iran releases ex-official on bail in mass trial

Iran released a former vice president on a $700,000 bail Sunday after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest.

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2 bomb blasts leave 7 dead, 52 wounded in India

Suspected militants set off two bombs outside a police station in India's restive northeast on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, police said.

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Search on for Indonesian ferry accident survivors

Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for 21 passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm. Officials say 254 survivors were pulled from the sea and at least 29 other people drowned.

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Indo-US Mutual Deceptions By Sajjad Shaukat

Indo-US relationship which has strengthened rapidly after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union is, in fact, based upon mutual self-deceptions.

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Once upon a time, charity boxes of so-called Islamic welfare organisations were a ubiquitous sight at shops in our cities. These boxes were claimed to have been put there by the shopkeepers and Islamic welfare groups to raise money for the building of mosques and madressahs.

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US secretary of state Hillary Clinton's three-day visit to Islamabad and Lahore highlighted the ongoing challenge of conducting diplomacy in Pakistan.

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A blogger makes a valid point in a recent blog on dawn.com.

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Both racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel (under an Irgun terrorist-based Government) and its close friend Apartheid Australia (under an extreme right-wing, racist, pro-coal, pro-war, climate criminal , war criminal, Australian Labor Party Government, aka the Labor Party, Gover …

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President Obama's visit to China this week inevitably invites comparisons between the world's two leading powers. You know what they say: Britain owned the 19th century, America owned the 20th century, and, it's all but certain that China will own the 21st century.

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JERUSALEM: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed almost 8,900 lives in two decades, the vast majority of them Palestinians, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said in a statement published on Sunday.

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RECENTLY I was fortunate enough to be a part of an excellent ten-minute news video prepared by the New York Times' reporter, Adam Ellick. Tastefully called 'Tuning out the Taliban,' the video has created the right buzz amongst young middle-class Pakistanis.

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Islamabad, Pakistan - The Pakistani government has some advice the Obama administration may not want to hear as it contemplates sending additional US troops to neighboring Afghanistan: Negotiate with Taliban leaders and restrain India.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In another blow to Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, the authorities this weekend released the names of politicians, many from his own party, who benefited from an amnesty decree that dismissed past alleged crimes.

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Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen.

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One of the goals of education is social awareness: a better understanding of society and the knowledge of available alternatives.

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Pakistan may be avoiding giving information on the American operative of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), David Coleman Headley, to India, but worrisome details have now come out of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe.

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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- China's worst mining accident in almost two years killed at least 104 in a coal-mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, raising concerns of a crackdown that may close mines and tighten supply in the world's biggest producer.

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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian rescue workers are combing the sea off Sumatra island for survivors after a ferry sank in rough weather yesterday, killing at least 29 people, officials said.

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Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities against any possible attack, state television reported.

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