PESHAWAR: A US drone strike Saturday killed four militants in Pakistan`s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.The strike hit Shahidano village in Kurram tribal district, 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Peshawar."Four militants have been killed in

WASHINGTONL: The US aid chief said Friday he faced a threat when visiting a relief camp in flood-hit Pakistan but pledged that extremists would not deter assistance.Rajiv Shah, administrator of the US Agency for International Development, said he quickly exited the camp he was touring the

KABUL: About two dozen Taliban militants -- including suicide bombers -- were killed Saturday in a failed attempt to storm two US-run bases in a volatile town in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said.The alliance said that its troops had "repelled two failed attacks at bases in Khost", killing a

WASHINGTON: A Somali man pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in an armed attack on a US warship off the Horn of Africa in April and will likely face 30 years in prison, the Department of Justice said.Jama Idle Ibrahim appeared before a judge in Norfolk, Virginia, in relation to the April

KIGALI: Rwanda accused the United Nations on Friday of trying to deflect attention from its own failures by leaking a draft report accusing Kigali of war crimes in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.The report, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, says Rwandan Tutsi commanders and

WASHINGTON, August 27, 2010 (AFP) - US President Barack Obama congratulated Kenya Friday on its new constitution but said he was "disappointed" Nairobi had hosted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a suspected war criminal."This historic approval and signing of the constitution is an

MANAGUA: Floods and landslides have killed at least 34 dead and affected some 84,000 people in Nicaragua this rainy season, which began on May 15, officials said Friday.Of those killed, 23 died in August, Army Colonel Nestor Solis told local media.This week alone has seen eight people

Nairobi: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Friday signed into law a long-awaited new constitution, weeks after it was passed in a national referendum.A massive crowd gathered to watch the president sign the document, which is part of a reform process aimed at preventing a repeat of the

ASADABAD: An Afghan police commander said Friday that NATO warplanes targeting Taliban insurgents killed six children in a mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan known to be a militant hotbed.The alliance said it was investigating claims that civilians had died following the air strike

MIAMI: Danielle strengthened early Friday into the first major hurricane of the Atlantic season, followed by Tropical Storm Earl which also powered up out at sea, but the pair were still days from landfall, US experts said."Danielle is a Category Three hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson

YALA: Suspected Islamist militants have shot and killed three people including a teacher in separate attacks across Thailand`s restive southern provinces, police said Friday.The 30-year-old teacher, who was also a corporal with the border patrol police, was attacked as he was leaving

CIUDAD VICTORIA: Mexico sought help from Latin American nations Thursday to identify 72 presumed migrants murdered near the US border, after blame for the massacre fell on a brutal drug gang.Diplomats from Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador and Brazil arrived in the northeastern state of

HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of Hong Kong people are expected at a weekend rally to demand justice for the victims of this week`s hostage bloodbath in Manila, organisers said Friday.In a rare show of unity, Hong Kong`s pro-Beijing and opposition groups will jointly hold the march on

SEOUL: Former US president Jimmy Carter flew out of North Korea Friday after securing the release of an American citizen and a pledge from Pyongyang that it wants to resume nuclear disarmament talks.The Nobel peace laureate left the reclusive communist state with Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an

THATTA: Pakistan has ordered the evacuation of 300,000 people in a southern town after its flood-protection defences were breached."We have ordered people of Thatta city on Thursday night to move to safer places after floods breached an embankment at Faqir Jogoth village," top

Kolkata: Pro-Maoist leader Umakanta Mahato, a prime suspect in the Gyaneswari Express sabotage case, was killed in an encounter with joint security forces in Jhargram area of West Bengal`s West Midnapore district early Friday, a top police official said."Umakanta Mahato has been killed

MANILA: The bullets that killed eight Hong Kong tourists in a Manila siege likely all came from the hijacker holding them captive and not from the police rescue team, a police spokesman said."We can say that with a certain degreee of certainty," Philippine national police spokesman Senior

SEOUL: North Korea`s leader Kim Jong-Il may meet Chinese President Hu Jintao in northeastern China, where Kim arrived earlier, news reports said Friday.A 30-vehicle convoy believed to be carrying Kim pulled up at a hotel in the city of Changchun after driving some 90 minutes from Jilin

NEW DELHI: India has cancelled defence exchanges with China in a new flare-up in relations between the two Asian giants, reports said Friday.The Times of India newspaper said the move by New Delhi was retaliation after Beijing refused a visa to a leading Indian general who oversees

HONG KONG : Teeming Hong Kong observed a mournful silence Thursday for eight tourists killed in a Manila bloodbath, after their bodies returned home amid mounting outrage against Philippine authorities.The southern Chinese territory held three minutes of silence with flags lowered to