WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that he receives death threats from US soldiers regularly, a media report said Monday.He also said that a statement on the steps of the high court here last week after he was released on bail was cut short…

Pakistan Monday accused India of dividing the international community by demanding a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told the National Assembly that Pakistan did not desire membership of the top UN body, the Express Tribune newspaper said.In…

The first of India’s six C-130J Super Hercules airlifters, considered the world’s most advanced transport aircraft, purchased from the US in a $1 billion deal has been delivered to the Indian Air Force.The first plane was received at a ceremony at manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s…

Asserting that the terrorist safe havens in Pakistan must be eliminated, US President Barack Obama Thursday said he will travel to Islamabad next year to further US goals in the war torn region.While Islamabad increasingly recognizes the danger of confronting militants along Pakistan’s border…

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government Tuesday narrowly won a key parliament confidence vote, staving off a demand for the premier’s resignation made by the centre-left opposition and a group of rebel conservatives.The lower house Chamber of Deputies rejected by 314 votes against 311…

South Korea’s intelligence service expects further attacks by its communist northern neighbour, a top official told lawmakers in Seoul Wednesday.Won Sei Hoon, chief of the South’s National Intelligence Service, told a parliamentary committee that the likelihood for renewed attacks was high, the Yonhap news…

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at an international security summit Wednesday reiterated an earlier statement that the leaking of sensitive US diplomatic documents would not hinder Washington’s work with other countries.“I have certainly raised the issue of the leaks in order to assure…

The US is engaged in a spying campaign against the leadership of the UN, according to leaked diplomatic cables published by Britain’s Guardian newspaper on its blog Sunday.The blog said a directive issued under Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name last year ordered American diplomats to…

Mount Bromo volcano on Indonesia’s Java island spewed ash into the air from a series of minor eruptions Sunday, prompting scientists to warn of possible danger to flights.Gede Suantika, head of the Centre of Vulcanology and Geological Mitigation, said the ash had reached the…

At least 11 people, including eight crew members and three labourers, were killed when a Khartoum-bound Russian cargo plane crashed near the Dalmiya road in Karachi minutes after taking-off Sunday.“The plane took-off from Karachi terminal around 1.45 a.m. and crashed at an under-construction site…