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WASHINGTON: US diplomatic chief Hillary Clinton welcomed late on Tuesday condemnation in the United States of a Florida pastor’s plans to burn hundreds of Qurans on the anniversary of 9/11. ‘I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful act that has come from American religious leaders from all faiths… as well as secular US leaders and opinion makers,’ Mrs

WASHINGTON: Throughout history, whenever books have been set on fire, passions have been unleashed.

Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in Gunbattle Near Border , A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug cartel members in northeastern Mexico left 25 purported gunmen dead Thursday, the military said. A reconnaissance flight over Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas state spotted several gunmen in front of a property, according to a statement from Mexico’s Defense Department

US President Barack Obama urges Israeli and Palestinian leaders that they shouldnt let the chance of a permanent peace deal slip away. He says this moment of opportunity may not soon come again and pledges US support for the new negotiations

The United States on Wednesday formally added the Pakistani Taliban to its list of foreign terrorist organizations, imposing financial and travel sanctions on the group which claimed responsibility for the failed bomb plot in New York’s Times Square. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, met the criteria to be included on the list, which bars any material support to and freezes the financial assets of groups deemed involved in terrorism. The TTP is the main Pakistani militant alliance which operates from Pakistan’s northwest

President Barack Obama declared an end to the seven-year US combat mission in Iraq and told war-weary Americans that our central mission as a people is to restore the sagging US economy and US must focus on its fight against al Qaeda and the war in Afghanistan. Obama, who inherited the war from President George W.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama must walk a fine line in a speech on Tuesday night as he highlights progress toward winding down the war in Iraq while trying to avoid any perception of a “Mission Accomplished” moment. The White House says the removal of all but 50,000 U.S. troops and the declaration of the end to the combat phase shows Obama is fulfilling a campaign promise he made in 2008 to pull out of Iraq

MOSCOW: Russian emergency officials say nine elderly people have been killed in a blaze in a nursing home that may have been started by a resident setting himself on fire. A spokeswoman for the regional Emergencies Ministry, Daria Korovina, says the fire at the facility in Tver injured two others and forced the evacuation of some 480 people early Monday. Tver is about 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Moscow

North Korea’s number two leader has told former U.S. President Jimmy Carter that the reclusive state is committed to denuclearising the peninsula and resuming six-way talks, the North’s state news agency said on Friday.

Police have killed a hijacker after he held 15 Hong Kong tourists hostage on a bus in Manila, the capital. At least four of the hostages were killed by hijacker in the 11-hour drama. Police said another four hostages had survived while the fate of the remaining seven was unclear.