World News Archive

  • Double vision for Dalai Lama
    Saturday 15 June 2013

    SYDNEY: The Dalai Lama poses with a wax figure of himself on a visit to Madame Tussauds in Australia.

  • At least 92,000 killed in Syrian civil war, says UN
    Friday 14 June 2013

    MORE than 92,000 people have been confirmed killed in the Syrian conflict but the real number is likely to be far higher, the UN says.

  • Turkish PM issues protest deadline
    Friday 14 June 2013

    Turkey's prime minister has ordered that "troublemakers" be removed from Istanbul's Taksim Square within 24 hours, while lashing out at the European Parliament over its planned resolution condemning the excessive use of force by the police.

  • Election date causes rift between leaders
    Friday 14 June 2013

    Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected President Robert Mugabe's declaration of a July 31 election, accusing his rival of breaching the constitution and creating a political crisis.

  • Iran poll campaign over
    Friday 14 June 2013

    Campaigning in Iran's presidential election ended yesterday, a day before the vote in which the sole moderate candidate has an unlikely chance to steal victory from his hardline rivals.

  • General strike held over closure of state media
    Friday 14 June 2013

    Unions in Greece have called a general strike following the closure of state-run TV and radio, which has divided the governing coalition.

  • Cuts 'hit people's health'
    Friday 14 June 2013

    Austerity cuts in Spain could lead to the effective dismantling of large parts of its healthcare system and significantly damage the health of the population, a study has suggested.

  • Body found in hunt for businessman
    Thursday 13 June 2013

    Thai police have found a mountain grave containing what is believed to be the body of a businessman and prominent government critic who disappeared a week ago.

  • Mandela responding better to treatment
    Thursday 13 June 2013

    Nelson Mandela is responding better to treatment after several days in hospital, says South African President Jacob Zuma.

  • Pope Francis speaks of a 'gay lobby' at work in Vatican
    Thursday 13 June 2013

    Pope Francis has claimed a "gay lobby" was at work at the Vatican in private remarks to the leaders of a key Latin American church group.

  • Protests at closure of Greek TV and radio
    Thursday 13 June 2013

    Greece's two largest unions have called a 24-hour general strike for today to protest at the government's move to close state-run TV and radio, a decision that has shocked the public and triggered a political crisis.

  • Cameron and Putin to hold Syria talks
    Thursday 13 June 2013

    David Cameron is to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to break the international deadlock on Syria.

  • Turkey's president calls for talks with protesters
    Thursday 13 June 2013

    TURKEY'S president has called for talks to be held with demonstrators after riot police cleared the Istanbul square at the centre of almost two weeks of protest.

  • Suicide attack on police station
    Wednesday 12 June 2013

    At least 14 people were killed when two suicide bombers targeted a square in central Damascus.

  • Crew blast off for 15-day space mission
    Wednesday 12 June 2013

    A Chinese manned spacecraft has blasted off carrying three astronauts on a 15-day mission to an experimental space lab in the latest step towards the development of a space station.

  • Flights cancelled due to airport strikes
    Wednesday 12 June 2013

    French air traffic controllers have walked off the job at the start of a three-day strike, grounding hundreds of flights across the country in a protest against European Union plans to liberalise civil airspace.

  • Workers sacked after protests turn violent
    Wednesday 12 June 2013

    Nearly 300 Cambodian garment workers who produce clothing for US sportswear company Nike have been dismissed for taking part in strikes seeking higher pay that turned violent, according to their union and dismissal notices.

  • Iran reformists support Rohani
    Wednesday 12 June 2013

    Iranian reformists, led by former president Mohammad Khatami, endorsed the lone moderate contesting Friday's presidential election, seeking to mount a credible bid for the presidency after eight years of conservative control.

  • Riot police sent in to end anti-government protest
    Wednesday 12 June 2013

    TURKISH riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters armed with rocks and fireworks as they tried to take back control of an Istanbul square at the heart of anti-Government demonstrations.

  • Mandela continues to receive treatment
    Wednesday 12 June 2013

    Former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela remained in a serious but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital yesterday after treatment for a lung infection, the government said.

  • Killer gunman identified
    Tuesday 11 June 2013

    Police have identified the man who went on a shooting rampage in California that left five people dead.

  • US President 'is closer to arming Syrian opposition'
    Tuesday 11 June 2013

    THE Obama administration could decide this week to send weapons to Syrian rebels, according to US officials.

  • 55 feared dead at sea
    Tuesday 11 June 2013

    Rescue authorities have given up hope of finding any survivors after an asylum-seeker boat carrying at least 55 people to Australia capsized in the Indian Ocean.

  • Car bombs kill 13 at busy market in Iraq
    Tuesday 11 June 2013

    THREE car bombs, one detonated by a suicide bomber, tore through a busy food market in a Shi'ite Muslim town north of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 13 people.

  • Zuma calls for country to pray for Mandela
    Tuesday 11 June 2013

    FORMER South African president and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was in hospital for a third day yesterday with a lung infection and his condition was "serious but stable".

  • Two held over live burial of murder suspect
    Monday 10 June 2013

    Two members of an indigenous Quechua community in Bolivia's highlands will be tried for murder, accused of leading a mob that buried alive a teenager suspected of raping and killing a woman.

  • 31 killed in clashes at militia camp
    Monday 10 June 2013

    LIBYA'S army chief of staff has resigned after clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi in which 31 people were killed, national assembly sources said.

  • Karzai demands transfer of Afghan PoWs in Camp Bastion
    Monday 10 June 2013

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has demanded Britain hands over more than 80 prisoners of war being held in a British base in the south within two weeks, saying the detention was against Afghan law and a breach of sovereignty.

  • Reluctance to arm rebels as peace summit hopes ebb
    Monday 10 June 2013

    Britain has said it and other countries were "very reluctant" to arm rebels in Syria even as it warned that success on the battlefield by forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad was undermining the chances of a Geneva peace conference.

  • Police kill gunman after shooting spree
    Sunday 9 June 2013

    DETECTIVES in California are investigating what prompted a man to go on a shooting spree in the beachfront city of Santa Monica, killing four people before he was shot dead by armed police.