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The House of Representatives on Wednesday roundly defeated a resolution demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strategy. Lawmakers routed the resolution in a 356-65 vote that saw 60 of Obama’s Democratic allies and five of his Republican critics cast ballots to call home all US forces from what he has called the central front against extremism. The measure demanded Obama pull US forces out of Afghanistan 30 days after the bill becomes law or, if he decides that is too dangerous, by no later than December 31.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai would arrive in Pakistan tomorrow on a two-day visit. Karzai would be visiting the country for the first time after being elected as president for the second term

ANKARA: At least 38 people are reported to have been killed in an earthquake in eastern Turkey.The government’s crisis centre says many of the victims were from the small villages of Okcular, Yukari Kanatli and Kayali, where the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 flattened stone or mud-brick houses and minarets of mosques. Some 60 people were reported injured

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asserted that the Sept 11 attacks on US World Trade Centre and Pentagon a ‘big lie’ which was used by the US as an excuse for the war on terror. Ahmadinejad, while addressing the Intelligence Ministry staff, said “September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan,” calling the attacks a “complicated intelligence scenario and act.” Ahmadinejad also questioned US claims that the death toll reached 3,000 saying that the Americans never published the names of those who died. Back in 2007, New York officials have rejected the Iran leader’s request to visit the World Trade Center during his NY visit for a UN meeting.

BAGHDAD: A car-bomb blast in the holy city of Najaf killed at least three people and injured more than 50, an Iraqi police official says. The official says the blast occurred Saturday near a bus carrying pilgrims, killing one Iraqi and two Iranians

President Barack Obama said that a forthcoming review of the US nuclear posture would reduce the number and role of nuclear weapons in Washington’s national security strategy.

A shooting at a Metro station adjacent to the Pentagon prompted the U.S. military to shut down the giant office complex on Thursday evening, officials said. According to local sources three people were shot

At least 12 people were killed while 35 others were injured in three suicide attacks in Iraq.

TAIPEI: A 6.4 magnitude quake struck southern Taiwan on Thursday, with an epicentre 35 kilometres (22 miles) deep, the US Geological Survey said. No tsunami warning was immediately issued. The quake, which hit about 70 kilometres from the main southern city of Kaohsiung, was felt as far away as the capital Taipei in the north of the island

At least 106 people have been killed in a landslide in eastern Uganda following more than a week of heavy rain in the area. Minister of State for Disasters Mussa Ecweru has told that 300 people are still missing