ANTARA News - International

Deported saudi blogger faces blasphemy charge

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:34:15 +0700

Riyadh (ANTARA News/AFP) - A Saudi journalist wanted in the kingdom for comments deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed was arrested after being deported from Malaysia and will face charges of blasphemy, a report said Monday. Hamza Kashgari, "was taken into custody as he arrived in ...

Malaysia defends deporting Saudi in Ttwitter row

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:56 +0700

Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News/AFP) - Malaysia on Monday defended its deportation of a Saudi journalist wanted at home for comments deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, saying it was not a "safe haven" for fugitives. But an opposition political party and a rights group quickly condemned the ...

NATO admits killing Afghan children in air strike

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:58:16 +0700

Kabul (ANTARA News/Reuters) - NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-insurgent operation in the area. The air strike took place last ...

2 killed, 12 injured in SW Pakistan blast

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:37:37 +0700

Islamabad (ANTARA News/IRNA-OANA) - Two people were killed in an explosion in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Monday, officials said. Twelve others including three policemen were injured in the blast in Dera Murad Jamali area. Police said the bomb was attached to a ...

Sri Lankan Air Force jet crashes

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:25:49 +0700

A Sri Lankan air force jet was completely destroyed when it crashed in north western Sri Lanka on Monday, the air force said.

S. Korean police arrest "pastor" over child killings

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:30:06 +0700

Seoul (ANTARA News/Reuters) - South Korean police have arrested a 43-year-old self-styled church pastor and his wife who confessed to beating their three young children to death in an attempt to cleanse them of their illnesses and sins, police said on Monday. A police statement said the ...

Ahmadinejad to visit Pakistan soon

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:10:57 +0700

Tehran (ANTARA News/IRNA-OANA) - Vice President for International Affairs, Ali Saeedlou, said that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Pakistan soon. Saeedlou made the remarks to reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Sunday."During President Ahmadinejad`s upcoming visit to ...

Krd rebels say no casualties in Turkish air raids

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:26:25 +0700

Arbil, Iraq (ANTARA News/AFP) - The rebel Kurdistan Workers` Party (PKK) said on Sunday that it sustained no casualties in Turkish air strikes on border areas of northern Iraq. "Turkish warplanes bombed the Zab and Khowakirk areas beginning at 9:00 pm (1800 GMT) on Saturday and lasting for a ...

Israel bombs Gaza after rocket launch, man killed

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:15:31 +0700

Gaza (ANTARA News/Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian civilian on Sunday, hospital officials said, and the military described the operation as retaliation for a cross-border rocket launch. The dead man was a guard in his 50s or 60s at an animal farm east of ...

TV bomb kills seven in nw Pakistan: police

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:09:24 +0700

Peshawar, Pakistan (ANTARA News/AFP) - A bomb hidden in a television set exploded in a house in northwest Pakistan early Sunday, killing at least seven people, in an attack police believe was part of a local feud. The blast took place in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Peshawar, ...

Yemen`s Qaeda executes two members for `spying`

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:08:04 +0700

Aden (ANTARA News/AFP) - Al-Qaeda`s Yemen branch, strongly active in the south of the impoverished nation, executed two of its members on Sunday accusing them of spying on its operations, witnesses said. The pair were accused of planting tracking devices in the vehicles of fellow Al-Qaeda ...

Pakistan denies sending NATO supply via its airspace

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:03:09 +0700

Islamabad (ANTARA News/Xinhua-OANA) - Pakistan`s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has categorically denied the U.S. claim that the country`s air space is being used for sending supplies to NATO- led forces in Afghanistan following the closure of land supply route by Pakistan, local media ...

Army chief visits south after pattani car bombing

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:11:43 +0700

Army chief Gen Prayuth Chanocha is visiting Thailand`s southern border region to follow up security operations following a car bombing yesterday at a health centre in Pattani.

RI calls for end to violence in Syria

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:06:51 +0700

Foreign Affairs Minister Marty M Natalegawa has again urged an end to the escalating violence against civilians in Syria.

Syria accuses some Arab and western countries of arming "terrorists"

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:46:23 +0700

Damascus (ANTARA News/Xinhua-OANA) - Syrian Foreign Ministry said Friday the twin blasts that hit the northern city of Aleppo came in the context of the "unjust campaign" funded and supported by regional countries, accusing some Arab and Western countries of funding and arming "terrorist groups." ...

Jordanian demonstrators urge gov`t to withdraw ambassador from Syria

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:22:24 +0700

Amman (ANTARA News/Xinhua-0ANA) - Scores of demonstrators took to the streets in Jordan on Friday, urging the Jordanian government to withdraw its ambassador from Damascus. In several rallies across Jordan, the demonstrators, including Syrian and Jordanian nationals, also called for the ...

Iran ready to promote ties with Indonesia: Salehi

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:07:03 +0700

Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said here on Wednesday that Iran is ready to develop bilateral ties with Indonesia.

Arab League mission to return to Syria: Ban

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:12:48 +0700

United Nations (ANTARA News/AFP) - The Arab League intends to restart its observer mission in Syria where government forces have killed thousands of civilians, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. Ban told reporters the head of the Arab League had told him of the plan to revive the mission ...

Yemen tribesmen clash with northern rebels, 10 dead

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:14:18 +0700

Sanaa (ANTARA News/Reuters) - At least 10 tribesmen were killed in northern Yemen during clashes with Shi`ite rebels, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday, less than two weeks before a presidential election aimed at ending a year of unrest. An uprising against outgoing President Ali Abdullah ...

Top US envoy met Taliban in Qatar: Afghan official

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:08:37 +0700

Kabul (ANTARA News/AFP) - Washington`s chief envoy to Afghanistan met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of US efforts to bring the insurgents to the negotiating table, a senior Afghan official said on Wednesday. The talks between the Taliban and Marc Grossman came in late January, after he ...