News Desk

Brasília, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):Fresh off a celebratory beach holiday, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva got down to uglier business Monday: figuring out how to govern with a hostile Congress, nasty budget crunch and impossible-looking to-do list. The political horse-trading of the transition period […]

Baghdad, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):A US citizen who lived in Iraq for two years was shot dead in central Baghdad Monday, Iraqi security sources said, with the motive not immediately clear. The victim was travelling by car “when unknown persons opened fire”, an interior ministry source […]

WASHINGTON – November 6 (ONLINE) Saudi Arabia has shared intelligence with American officials that suggests Iran could be preparing for an imminent attack on the kingdom, three US officials said. “We are concerned about the threat picture, and we remain in constant contact through military […]

MANILA – November 6 (ONLINE) A homemade bomb went off in a bus and killed a passenger and wounded 10 others in a southern Philippine city in an attack authorities suspect may be part of an extortion attempt, officials have said. The bus with an […]