Tag: West
ECOWAS to deploy troops to secure Mali
West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS will send troops to Mali by Monday as part of an international military campaign to contain Islamist rebel groups...
‘Hamas preparing for West Bank takeover’
The Sunday Times' claims Hamas instructed its sleeper cells in West Bank to prepare for armed struggle to overtake the territory.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal...
West to spend Christmas with Kardashians?
Rapper Kanye West will reportedly spend Christmas with girlfriend Kim Kardashian and her family here. The 35-year-old, who has been dating the “Keeping Up...
WICB wants PCB to reschedule upcoming series
Keen on having a Test series against India in August next year, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has expressed its inability to accommodate a...
Israeli army raids West Bank NGO offices
Israeli soldiers have raided the offices of three civil society organisations in the heart of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Entering before dawn on...
Palestinian ‘with axe’ killed by Israeli forces in West Bank
Israeli security forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the West Bank. Details are unclear, but an Israeli police spokeswoman said the man...
Israel approves new homes in West Bank
The Israeli government has approved the construction of 3,000 new homes in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, less than 24 hours after...
West Ham ban fan after anti-Semitic chanting
West Ham United have banned a season ticket holder and threatened further action while the FA has launched an investigation after anti-Semitic chanting marred...
US, West wants a weak Pakistan, says Iran’s Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday said that United States and some western countries do not want to see a strong and prosperous Pakistan
Addressing...
Bangladesh swift in reply to West Indies’s 527
At one end was Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who took seven-and-a-half hours to make his second Test double hundred. At the other end was Tamim Iqbal,...
Onus on Bangladesh to take the fight to West Indies
A Test series between the seventh and ninth-ranked teams shouldn't attract much attention when four of the top sides are locking horns at almost...
Woman linked to Petraeus is a West Point graduate and lifelong...
Paula Broadwell, whose affair with the nation’s C.I.A. director led to his resignation on Friday, was the valedictorian of her high school class and...
Kanye West to propose to Kim Kardashian?
Singer Kanye West might just end up surprising his socialite girlfriend Kim Kardashian with an engagement ring on her 32nd birthday Sunday. Popular host...
Karzai sacks key ally of the West
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sacked five provincial governors, including a key Western ally in one of the most turbulent battlegrounds of the south,...
Karzai sacks key ally of the West
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sacked five provincial governors, including a key Western ally in one of the most turbulent battlegrounds of the south,...
The recent celebrity death hoaxes
Eddie Murphy
The latest celeb who fell victim to a death hoax was actor Eddie Murphy, last month. It was claimed the star had died...
West to grant Kosovo full sovereignty
Kosovo was to be granted full sovereignty by the West on Monday, over four years since its hotly contested declaration of independence, in a...