International

January 13, 2011

Tunisia protests: Live bullets fired in central Tunis

Security forces have fired live bullets and tear gas in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis, reports…

January 13, 2011

Berlusconi suffers trial setback as judges amend law

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a setback after judges amended a law shielding him from prosecution temporarily. A Constitutional Court meeting in Rome ruled that individual judges should be allowed to decide whether a prime…

January 13, 2011

Arizona shootings: Funeral for victim Christina Green

Christina Taylor Green, the nine-year-old killed in Saturday's shooting in Arizona, is to be buried on Thursday in the first of six such funerals. Christina, whom President Barack Obama hailed on Wednesday night, was a top student, dancer and…

January 10, 2011

Spain’s Basque rebels Eta call ‘permanent truce’

The Basque separatist group Eta has announced a permanent ceasefire in its fight for independence from Spain. In a video…

January 10, 2011

Iran holds ‘Israel-linked spies behind nuclear killing’

The Iranian authorities have arrested a "network of spies" which they say was behind the assassination of a nuclear scientist a year ago, state TV reports. In a brief statement, the authorities said the network was linked to Israel's Mossad secret…

January 10, 2011

US court demands WikiLeaks’ Twitter account info

US investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained yesterday -- the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified US…

January 10, 2011

Giffords shooting: Suspect Jared Loughner charged

US authorities have charged a 22-year-old man over Saturday's Arizona shooting in which a congresswoman was seriously…

January 10, 2011

Fourteen killed in Tunisia unemployment protests

The number of people killed in unrest over unemployment in Tunisia over the past 24 hours has risen to 14, officials say. The deaths occurred in the towns of Thala, Kasserine and Regueb, in the west and centre of the country. An interior ministry…

January 10, 2011

French hostages executed during rescue mission, ministry says

Two French citizens who were kidnapped in Niger's capital were executed by their abductors during an attempted rescue mission, the French Defense Ministry said Sunday. "During this rescue operation, the two hostages were killed, probably executed by…

January 10, 2011

Passenger plane crashes in Iran, killing 72, official says

Seventy-two people died and 33 were injured Sunday night when an IranAir passenger jet en route from Tehran to the northwest city of Orumiyeh crashed as it attempted to make an emergency landing in a snowy field, an official said. In all, 105 people…