(CNN) — The death of al Qaeda’s No. 2, Atiyah Abdul Rahman in Pakistan, is a hammer blow to the terrorist organization. According to a U.S. official, Abdul Rahman, a 43-year-old veteran Libyan operative, rose to the number two spot after the death of Osama bin Laden in May, which saw the Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri take over the leadership ...

Pakistan's Chief Justice warned the situation in Karachi was in danger of spinning "out of hand" after the Sindh Police chief admitted many areas of the city have become "no go zones" with the death toll mounting to 306 in a month of gang wars and mayhem. In an unprecedented sitting in Karachi to take suo motu notice of the ...

Johannesburg – South Africa was considering whether to grant the Dalai Lama a visa, after Archbishop Desmond Tutu invited the Tibetan spiritual leader for a visit, according to media reports Monday. Both Tutu and the Dalai Lama are Nobel peace prize laureates. ‘I have invited His Holiness the Dalai Lama to attend my 80th birthday celebrations in Cape Town,’ Tutu ...

The former boss of MI5 has said Iraq was a “distraction” that posed no threat to the UK when Tony Blair took the country to war. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said intelligence suggested the domestic threat could actually increase as a result of the invasion. The ex-security service chief made the remarks in an interview in which she said she “assumes” ...

Monday, 29 August 2011, 5:52 pm Column: Sherwood Ross Obama Widening War in Somalia By August 29, 2011 Led by the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) the U.S. is stepping up its war in Somalia, The Nation magazine reports. “The CIA presence in (the capital) Mogadishu is part of Washington’s intensifying counter-terrorism focus on Somalia, which includes targeted strikes by US Special ...

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda delivers a speech Monday before voting in the Democratic Party of Japan’s presidential election. Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda was elected president of the Democratic Party of Japan on Monday, succeeding outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a much expected runoff was held. Noda received 215 votes in ...

TOKYO ‘ The ruling party of Japan was to elect the man who will become the country’s sixth new prime minister in five years on Monday, but no candidate was expected to land a knock-out blow in the first round. The contest, a bitter fight within the centre-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), comes amid public disenchantment over the government’s ...

It may be 10 years since the attacks in the US on 11 September, but conspiracy theories have not faded over time, says Mike…

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — With Irene gone, cleanup crews began pumping water out of soggy subway tunnels, fixing traffic lights in the nation’s capital and clearing debris from hundreds of roads as the East Coast readied for the workweek. While early indications were that the damage was not as bad as feared, it will be days before things get back ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power – but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared. Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage, up to $7 billion by one private estimate, and worried of ...