MOSCOW (Agencies(  Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96, officials said.

LONDON: Former US president George W Bush and his top aides were accused on Friday of covering up that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could harm the ‘war on terror’.

WASHINGTON: The effort to prevent nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism were the focus of an address today in Louisville by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Opposition leaders in Kyrgyzstan say they have seized power after taking control of security headquarters, state television and other government buildings following two days of unrest.

WASHINGTON (Agencies) U.S. air marshals subdued a Qatari diplomat on a flight to Denver on Thursday in a bomb scare triggered after he reportedly smoked a cigarette and joked he was trying to light his shoes, officials said.

BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq said it was in “open war” with Al-Qaeda, after bombings in Baghdad killed dozens, as Washington insisted the bloodshed will not delay the withdrawal of its troops from the war-ravaged country.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired another broadside at Israel over its aggression against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

BELGRADE – Facing a dearth of donations over government pressures, Muslim education institutions in Serbia are risking to shut down over the lack of funding.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The Obama administration has authorized operations to capture or kill an American-born Muslim cleric based in Yemen for his alleged role in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

One of the internet’s biggest sources of classified government information has released video of what it says is a US helicopter firing at civilians in Iraq.