LONDON (AFP) - More than 2,000 demonstrators rallied in central London Sunday to protest US President George W Bush's visit here at the end of a European farewell tour, police said. "George Bush: terrorist," shouted the protesters, gathered peacefully in Parliament Square a couple of hours ...

LONDON (AFP) - The world's richest countries are shirking their responsibility towards poverty-stricken refugees from war-torn Iraq, Amnesty International said Sunday. Calling the security situation "dire," the London-based human rights group said kidnappings, torture and ill-treatment "pervade ...

GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Islamist movement Hamas on Sunday marked the first year of its Gaza Strip takeover in a state of war with Israel but unchallenged by the Palestinians in its besieged coastal enclave. "We cannot deny that the pressure and the siege has been very painful for the Palestinian ...

KIEV (AFP) More than two hundred thousand people gathered Saturday under a downpour on Kiev's Independence Square, the high place of Ukraine's "orange revolution", to hear a free concert by ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. The singer greeted the audience, which included former Ukrainian and actual ...

The new Federal Budget for 2008-09 has evoked a     mixed reaction. Some analysts and observers have     termed the new budget as a balanced approach of     the government in the prevailing critical economic     scenario ...