Buenos Aires, (IANS/EFE) The Conservation Land Trust, a project of US philanthropists and environmental activists Douglas and Kris Tompkins, donated 15,000 hectares for the expansion of Perito Moreno National Park in southern Argentina. The donation was formalized at a ceremony presided over by Argentine Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer, who described the CLT’s action as “moving”. [...]

Baghdad, (IANS) A wave of bombing attacks struck war-torn Iraq Friday, leaving as many as 73 people dead and 148 injured, police and officials said. At least 41 people were killed and 56 injured in two blasts, which hit almost simultaneously in Baquba, capital city of Diyala province, after the Friday prayer, reported Xinhua citing [...]

Islamabad, (IANS) At least 15 people were killed and 25 injured when twin blasts hit two mosques in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ahead of the Friday prayers, Geo News reported. The blasts occurred in Malakand district of the province from where the bodies and injured were shifted to a hospital. Many of the wounded were [...]

Islamabad, (IANS) Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Thursday promised to transfer power to the incoming government on time. The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) party of twice prime minister Nawaz Sharif emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general elections and Sharif is set to lead the country for a third [...]

Beijing, As many as five flights in China were affected Wednesday due to fake bomb threats, officials said. Flights operated by China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines were affected, the Xinhua news agency reported. Juneyao Airlines received a threat call and arranged for the flight which had departed from Shanghai to return to [...]

Jakarta, Four workers were killed while many others were still missing after a mine tunnel of a subsidiary of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia collapsed, local media said Wednesday. The incident was reported from eastern Indonesia’s Papua Province early Tuesday, according to Xinhua news agency. “Fourteen workers have been evacuated from the tunnel until [...]

Kabul, At least six suspected pro-Taliban rebels were killed and five others detained in military operations by NATO-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said Wednesday. “The Afghan National Security and Coalition Forces killed six insurgents and detained five suspected insurgents,” the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement. The forces also [...]

Washington, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Professions of love and support for 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are popping up on social media websites by the thousands, driven in part by scores of US schoolgirls who insist the “brown-eyed, baby-faced teen” has been framed. “There’s nothing I believe in more than jahar’s innocence,” tweeted an 18-year-old from [...]

Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) A US diplomat was briefly detained by Russian counter-intelligence officials after the American was suspected of being an undercover CIA officer and trying to recruit a Russian agent, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said. A US Embassy press officer in Moscow said she could not comment on the report. According to an [...]