LOS ANGELES: Veteran US folk singer Richie Havens, who shot to stardom with his distinctive style at the iconic 1969: Woodstock music festival, died at 72, his agent said. Havens’ frenzied rhythmic strumming and searing vocal delivery on “Freedom/Motherless Child” mesmerized the ...

Concerned over the extremist safe havens in border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, US President Barack Obama has said that the issue requires more than simply military actions."With respect to Pakistan and safe havens there, Afghanistan and the United States and Pakistan all have an ...

DAMASCUS  - Fierce fighting rocked northern Syria Friday as Turkey pressed its call for internationally protected safe havens in the country to stem the outflow of refugees and protesters demanded the fall of the regime.UN chief Ban Ki-moon told Syria’s premier in Tehran that Damascus ...