Exiled writer attacked in Hyderabad
Taslima Nasrin, an exiled Bangladeshi writer, was set upon by a Muslim mob in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad after a speaking event. She
Troops patrol Port Harcourt after gang violence
Nigerian troops have been deployed on the streets of oil capital Port Harcourt, after four days of turf wars between rival gangs in
Kill or convert
American left magazine The Nation profiles "Operation Straight Up" (OSU), an official arm of the troop morale-boosting program of the US Defence Department. OSU is
Violent protests erupt in East Timor
Opposition supporters in East Timor have clashed with police, in what the United Nations (UN) has described as "sporadic and isolated" violence,
India's conspiracy of silence
On the CNN-IBN blog, Sagarika Ghose watches the convictions of Muslims for involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bombing and sees a toxic cloud of
Glasgow bomber succumbs to burns
One of the two men detained over the Glasgow Airport attack has died in hospital of the burns he sustained during the incident. Kafeel Ahmed,
Former militia leaders charged with war crimes
Two former leaders of a pro-government militia were charged with war crimes by Sierra Leone’s United Nations-backed Special Court on Thursday, though
The way to go in Iraq
American foreign policy analyst Peter Galbraith argues in the New York Review of Books that the "way to go" in Iraq is
Mismanagement in Iraq: “a second insurgency”
Economic mismanagement and corruption are equivalent to “a second insurgency” in Iraq, the United States agency overseeing reconstruction in the country has told the
Iraq's victory: a plea for unity
Celebrations, not bombs, rocked all of Iraq yesterday as the nation cheered the success of its footballers who beat neighbours Saudi Arabia
Ready to hand over Basra by years out
“We are very close to being able to hand over Basra” to Iraqi control, the British Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief
Attack on Harry Potter foiled
Police in the coastal Pakistani metropolis of Karachi defused a car bomb outside a shopping centre just hours before the last installment of the Harry
