The Arab League threw its support Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed.
Eric Linton
Feb 12, 2012
The Arab League threw its support Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed.
Eric Linton
Feb 12, 2012
Turn the clock back 13 years to 1999. Seek out the Chief Information Officer of every large business. What was the big worry? Y2K.
David Zielenziger
Feb 12, 2012
Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in an online video recording posted on Sunday, urged Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments in their revolt to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 12, 2012
The United Nations-backed survey, Buried in Bricks: Rapid Assessment of Bonded Labour in Afghan Brick Kilns, found that workers and their families are tied to a kiln as they have to repay the loans which they often take for basic necessities, medical expenses, weddings and funerals.
Swaty Sharma
Feb 12, 2012
Global airlines on Sunday called for a deal brokered by a United Nations agency to avoid an impasse between China and the European Union over jet pollution spilling into a trade war. Airlines are being squeezed between conflicting laws, the head of the International Air Transport Association said.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 12, 2012
In the Year of the Dragon, China expects a 5 percent increase in births despite the country's strict one-child policy. This brings into question whether the one-child policy is still an effective population control tool. Or is the policy actually damaging Chinese society and economy?
Esther Tran Le
Feb 11, 2012
Libya urged Niger on Saturday to extradite Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi, saying his call for Libyans to prepare for a coming uprising threatened bilateral ties. In response, Niger pledged to tighten house surveillance of Saadi, but reiterated he could not be handed over to a state where he could face execution.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 11, 2012
Syrian forces unleashed new tank and rocket bombardments on opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Saturday while diplomats sought United Nations backing for an Arab plan to end 11 months of bloodshed in the Middle Eastern country.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 11, 2012
Violence flared across Syria, including bomb attacks that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo, while at the United Nations diplomats said a new effort was afoot to gain backing for an Arab peace plan to end 11 months of bloodshed in the country.
Raymond Ronamai
Feb 11, 2012
The site went offline since Friday night even as Anonymous posted messages on its Twitter page claiming that the URL was hacked.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2012
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the UK and Argentina to “avoid an escalation” in Falklands, and noted his “concern about the increasingly strong exchanges” between the two countries.
Daniel Tovrov
Feb 10, 2012
Bipartisan group of senators have introduced a resolution asking the Obama administration to rev up its work with the international community to address the crisis in Syria.
Dan Rivoli
Feb 10, 2012
The Operation Black March boycott, led by Anonymous, aims to protest ACTA and SOPA by asking opponents of the treaty not to purchase media for the month of March.
Connor Adams Sheets
Feb 10, 2012
A Russian officer was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday for giving missile secrets to the CIA.
Daniel Tovrov
Feb 10, 2012
The comments were apparently the first public statement that the Saudi monarch has made regarding Syria.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 10, 2012
Tanks amassed outside opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Friday as Alawite-led forces bombarded the Syrian city for the fifth day and residents expected a major push to subdue the centre of revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Raymond Ronamai
Feb 10, 2012
Tanks amassed outside opposition neighborhoods in Homs Friday as Alawite-led forces bombarded the Syrian city for the fifth day and residents expected a major push to subdue the center of revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule
Eric Linton
Feb 09, 2012
The street value of the haul was more than $4 billion.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 09, 2012
Russia faced a barrage of condemnations after it joined China over the weekend in vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step aside, but Russia has stood resolutely behind its decision. Why?
Jeremy White
Feb 09, 2012
U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid studies on how quickly coastal areas may flood as global warming gathers pace.
keep for now
Feb 09, 2012
Armoured reinforcements poured into Homs as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bombarded the rebellious Syrian city for a fourth day, opposition sources said Thursday, worsening the dire humanitarian situation and prompting a new diplomatic push from Turkey.
Eric Linton
Feb 08, 2012
