NEW DELHI: Two lieutenants of India’s most dreaded and wanted fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim, were on Tuesday issued sanctions by the United States in connection with their drug trafficking activities. The United States Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) served the sanctions on Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon, two of Dawood’s most trusted [...]
MUMBAI: The United States is hopeful for American business in India. With growth in the Indian sub-continent seeing rapid expansion, the US Commerce Secretary John Bryson said it has opened the door for “unprecedented” opportunities for American companies. Ironically, simultaneous recent reports also state that despite India’s massive growth rates in recent times, that financial [...]
NEW DELHI: The United States said that it would not undermine India’s security and that the country’s continued use of Iranian oil despite pending sanctions, is not causing a rift between the countries. US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, in New Delhi on Monday, said “media reports” arguing there were problems in [...]
NEW DELHI: Hafiz Saeed, a mastermind in Mumbai’s multiple terror attacks in 2008 which killed nearly 200 persons, will soon feature on the United States government’s most wanted list, a visiting senior US department of state official said here. Information on Hafiz Saeed who heads the dreaded Jamaat-ud-Dawa will fetch a reward $ 10 million, [...]
SANA’A: As more attacks by al-Qaeda militants against Yemen armed forces in recent weeks and the announcement of yet another defeat and the death of dozens of soldiers, the White House reached out to President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi asking him to approve the deployment of American troops in Yemen. Only a month ago residents [...]
SANA’A: During a visit to Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Prince Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister that the White House was standing ready to assist Yemen in its power-transfer, promising that it would assist the country’s financial reconstruction and fight against terror. Clinton asserted that the ultra-conservative Gulf Kingdom and the [...]
New York (dpa) – Lawyers for former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday asked a United States judge to dismiss a civil case against him, claiming that he had diplomatic immunity at the time of the alleged rape of a maid in a New York hotel last year. Amit Mehta, one of Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers, told [...]
Washington (dpa) – The US Supreme Court heard the first arguments Monday in a challenge to President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul law, as Republican presidential candidates used the opportunity to attack the proposal that is sure to be a major issue in November’s presidential election. The nine Supreme Court justices first heard procedural [...]
Kabul (dpa) – The US military has paid compensation to the families of the victims of a shooting spree in which a US soldier is accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians, officials said Saturday. “The Americans paid 50,000 dollars for each Afghan killed and 11,000 dollars for each injured in the shootout by an American [...]
Washington (dpa) – The US military has decided not to punish any of its soldiers in a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani troops in November and frayed an already uneasy US-Pakistan alliance in the fight on terrorism, a newspaper reported late Saturday. The decision was taken after a second US investigation into the incident [...]
Washington (dpa) – Thousands of Americans rallied Saturday in cities across the country to protest the shooting death last month of an unarmed Florida teenager, in a case that has struck a nerve in a country still plagued by racial divisions. Dressed in black “hoodie” sweatshirts like the one Trayvon Martin was wearing when he [...]
Senate Appropriations State and Foreign Ops Subcommittee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was informed by the State Department of the national security waiver on US aid to Egypt. Many here in Washington have started to criticize this decision. Although, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has badly managed the democratic transition, this piece argues, [...]
Phnom Penh (dpa) – Bunnoeun Ong landed at Phnom Penh airport with 11 dollars in his pocket. He had no family, no friends and no shelter in Cambodia. One thing was certain: he could not return to the United States. The 31-year-old television repairman from Chicago, convicted of attempted home invasion, is one of a [...]
SANA’A: Mohamed Abdel-Mageed al-Zindany, the son of Yemen’s Sheikh Abdel-Mageed al-Zindani, a prominent cleric and powerful tribal leader, called on his fellow Yemenis to raise the flag of Islam and wage war on the American infidels, starting with US ambassador to Yemen, Gerard Feierstein. In a fiery verbal attack against the ambassador, al-Zindani slammed American’s [...]
Washington (dpa) – The US State Department on Monday confirmed the killing of US citizen Joel Wesley Shrum in Yemen. He was shot dead on Sunday by two assailants in southern Yemen, according to reports from the country. Shrum was driving to a language institute, where he taught and served as deputy manager, when the [...]
Colombo (dpa) – Clergy from various faiths on Monday held a demonstration in Colombo to protest a US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council that calls for a probe into alleged war crimes during the civil war that ended in 2009. A pro-government organization called the National Movement to Safeguard the [...]
The callous burning of the Qur’an by bigots in the American military has spawned numerous protests across Afghanistan that hitherto has left 29 people dead and scores wounded. Obama’s half-hearted apology has only added fuel to the incessant outrage expressed by ordinary Afghans who widely perceive America’s occupation of their country as a wholesale onslaught [...]
Late last month, a group of middle-aged men were screaming at a television in a local Egypt coffee shop. Their anger was directed at a report on Al Jazeera news network stating that the United States was shipping more tear gas and other munitions to Egypt. “What is this? How many more people must America [...]
Washington (dpa) – The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians has been identified by several US media organizations as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, 38. The man’s identity had been withheld by officials as they worked to fly him out of Afghanistan to a stopover – possibly in Kuwait. Bales was expected to arrive [...]
MUMBAI: A reported American drone attack in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 8 people, security officials in the country confirmed to Bikyamasr.com early afternoon local time. The official said that the attack was carried out at Barmal area of South Waziristan, one of 7 districts where militants linked with al-Qaeda are active. A security [...]
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