Afghanistan's re-elected President Hamid Karzai handed an olive branch Tuesday to his Taliban "brothers" and urged them to come home as he vowed to form an inclusive government and wipe out corruption after stern warnings from Western supporters.
North Korea said Tuesday that it has completed reprocessing thousands of spent nuclear fuel rods to extract plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile, raising the stakes in an apparent effort to get the US into direct negotiations.
A treasure trove of some 350 rare pieces of marble, hoarded beneath an ancient cellar floor, have been uncovered during an excavation conducted approximately 100 meters north of the Old City wall of the coastal city of Akko.
Hamas leaders recently testified to the Goldstone investigative committee on Operation Cast Lead that their organization was not behind terrorist rocket attacks on Israel, and does not support such attacks
On Monday, November 2, 2009, Noor Faleh Almaleki, 20 years old,
Pakistan's military spokesman said Monday that troops had taken full control of Kanigurram, one of the biggest towns in South Waziristan and formerly a key Taliban operational center as 33 people were killed in a large blast in Rawalpindi.
A Moroccan woman who hid a computer memory stick in her burka containing thousands of files on making explosives, was sentenced to two years in jail on Monday after pleading guilty to possessing material likely to be useful to terrorists.
In hopes of deflecting Western media attacks against the Arab and Muslim world, Libyan leader Muammar Al Qaddafi has written a screenplay for a new drama series scheduled to broadcast next Ramadan.
At least 33 people, including 6 soldiers, have been killed and more than 60 others wounded on Monday in a large blast in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, near the army headquarters, Al Arabiya reported.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards warned the moderate opposition on Monday not to stage any rallies on Nov. 4, when the Islamic Republic marks the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.