Here is the latest update on the ongoing nuclear crisis as the quake-damaged Fukushima power plant in Japan.
The latest lawsuit against the Newark Police Department, filed earlier this week, involved a 17-year-old student.
The Kurds are a non-Arab people who have no state. There are anywhere between 30-million and 35-million Kurds spread out over various nations in the Middle East and the former Russian republics, with Turkey, Iraq and Iran having the highest number.
Anti-government protests have broken out across Syria, a day after President Bashar Al-Assad announced he would form committees to study lifting emergency laws and to investigate the deaths of demonstrators in prior rallies during the current unrest.
President Barack Obama said on Friday lawmakers negotiating a six-month budget extension that stretches until the end of the current fiscal year are close to a compromise and it was time to agree.
Libyan rebels have reportedly offered terms of a ceasefire if Moammar Gaddafi withdraws his soldiers from opposition-controlled cities and subsequently permits peaceful protests against the regime, according to a report in Al Jazeera.
The grim search for bodies in the quake-and-tsunami devastated region of northeastern Japan has so far yielded 18 corpses, as Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and U.S. military personnel embark on a three-day intensive search for missing people, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry.
No deal has been reached on a budget extension, but it appears there's a working target on the size of budget cuts, as lawmakers continue to negotiate on what the specific cuts will be made and what non-budget related riders will be included in a bill to put up for a vote.
As expected, tens of thousands of Yemenis have gathered in the capital city of Sanaa to express their antipathy to the regime of the President Ali Abdullah Saleh, continuing weeks of a protest campaign.
International Business Times spoke to Dilshod Achilov, a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, Tenn., for his thoughts on Syria.
Anti-government groups in Syria are planning massive rallies across the nation Friday, one day after the Bashar al-Assad’s regime said it would begin a process to lift emergence laws, one of the key demands of the opposition.
A coalition air strike in Libya has killed seven civilians, according to the BBC.
As the world keep a close eye on the earthquake-crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, US Department of Energy has released Japan's radiological assessment results.
Prominent U.S. lawmakers tore into the plan of the administration to withdraw from air attacks in Libya, saying the decision was “odd”, “troubling” and “unnerving”, according to reports.
U.S. forces will significantly dilute their role in Libya though they played crucial role in the first phase of Operation Odyssey Dawn, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the House Armed Services Committee.
China issued a white paper on national defense, aiming to enhance its military's transparency and boost the world's trust in its commitment to peaceful development, the Xinhua reported on Thursday.
China has set its total output of rare earth at 93,800 tonnes this year, 4,600 tonnes more or 5.16 percent higher compared to last year's, the Ministry of Land and Resources said on Thursday.
Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who has vowed to fight until the end, is in way too deep to simply surrender.
A top NATO official on Thursday said there is no purely military solution to the crisis in Libya, as the coalition of North American and European nations took control of protecting civilians while rebels fighting Gaddafi-backed forces suffered setbacks after gains earlier in the week and talk of arming them grew.
Nothing is proven yet, but there are strong signs that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is looking for a way out.
Another senior official from Muammar Gaddafi’s government jumped ship.
On the heels of the defection of former foreign minister Moussa Koussa, more high-level associated of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi have apparently abandoned him, according to a report in Al Jazeera.
Some pedestrians in Maryland are being warned a bus is turning at the street corner -- by the bus itself.
IBTimes Daily Edition: Thursday March 31, 2011
Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of Nation of Islam (NOI) in the U.S., has defended his brother” Moammar Gaddafi and blasted U.S. military action in Libya.
American military bosses have warned that Moammar Gaddafi’s army remains very strong, despite hundreds of allied strikes on Libyan targets by western coalition forces.
A leading Yemeni political figure has urged embattled president Ali Abdullah Saleh not just to resign from power, but also to leave the country.
The Middle East revolt was started in the obscure Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid by a fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, who was driven to desperate measures by poverty and economic corruption.
Bahrain has stepped up its crackdown on anti-government protesters (almost all of whom are (Shia Muslims) by arresting at least 300 activists in one massive sweep, thereby sending untold others into hiding. Those detained included a prominent blogger, Mahmood al-Yousif.
Forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi are making an aggressive eastward advance into Brega, Libya, where there are battling back undermanned rebel forces for control of the key coastal city.
