johannesburg - Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group Lanxess have been suspended since Thursday after some 470 workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the company said on Saturday.The dispute at the mine in Rustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) northwest of ...

karachi - PML-F’s strike call given on May 16 against election rigging received a mixed response in Karachi. PML-N Provincial President Ghous Ali Shah had also announced to support Sindh-wide strike. However, all the main shopping centres and markets remained open and the transport also ...

A senior Defense Department official said Thursday that the Pentagon sees no need to change the broad congressional authorization under which the military conducts lethal drone strikes against terrorist targets and estimated that the war with al-Qaeda could continue for up to two decades, said a ...

karachiThe Pakistan Muslim League-Functional has given call of shutter-down strike on Thursday (today) against rigging in the elections.PML-N and nationalist groups have supported the protest call and announced to join protest demonstrations and sit-ins all over the province.Earlier on Tuesday, ...

QUETTA - A shutter-down and wheel-jam strike called by the Baloch National Front against the general elections, paralysed life here and other towns of the province Thursday.The BNF - an alliance of different Baloch hardliner parties and organisations - had given the strike call from May 9 to 11 ...

DHAKA: Schools and businesses were closed on Wednesday as a nationwide strike called byBangladesh’s opposition over the killings of Islamists in a police crackdown brought large parts of the country to a halt. Security was tight in the capitalDhakawith thousands of policemen on ...

DAMASCUS Israeli strikes hit a military target outside Damascus on Sunday, the Jewish state's second reported raid on Syria this week, with residents saying the attack felt like an earthquake and turned the sky red.A senior Israeli source said the aerial assault hit Iranian weapons destined for the ...

    Shaker Aamer, 44, is the only Briton being held atGuantanamoBay. He has been detained without charge for more than 11 years and on hunger strike since mid-February – one of more than 100 prisoners taking part in a protest which has brought the camp close to meltdown. Americahas ...

      london   Juan Mata struck an 87th-minute winner as Chelsea won 1-0 at champions Manchester United on Sunday to reclaim third place in the Premier League and tighten their grip on a Champions League spot. A lacklustre game at Old Trafford was drifting towards a goalless ...

  WASHINGTON: Alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother had originally planned to commit suicide attacks during Fourth of July celebration, reports said Thursday. The ethnic Chechen brothers had considered striking during Boston’s large city ...

NEW DELHI - India has warned Pakistan that it will retaliate massively even if Pakistan used tactical nuclear weapons against it. As Pakistan is developing "tactical" nuclear warheads to miniaturise its weapons to be carried on short-range missiles, India will protect its security interests by ...

More Guantanamo prisoners have joined a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention at the US-run military jail, with 97 out of 166 detainees refusing food, officials said Friday.Among the strikers, 19 have been given nasal feeding tubes, and five of those are hospitalized but do not have ...

More prisoners have joined a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention at the US-run Guantanamo military prison, with 92 out of 166 detainees refusing food, a spokesman said Wednesday.Among them, 17 are on feeding tubes and two are hospitalized but do not have "life-threatening ...

SANAA : An apparent US drone strike and ensuing ground clashes in Yemen killed three suspected Al-Qaeda militants and two soldiers on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said.The strike targeted a house in Wadi Abida, in the eastern province of Marib, and killed two suspected militants, the ...

WASHINGTON:  More than half of the 166 detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo military prison have joined a rapidly growing hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention, an official said Sunday.There are 84 inmates who are refusing food, including 16 on feeding tubes, five of whom are ...

 MARSEILLE (GN) - Bus drivers in a French city said they will go on strike because, among other grievances, the uniform pants they are required to wear are too tight.The drivers, who work for the public transport authority in Marseille, said the company’s 1,600 employees will strike for ...

SANAA : A suspected US drone strike in western Yemen has killed five Al-Qaeda militants, including a local chief, a security official and witnesses said on Thursday.The raid that took place late Wednesday in Dhamar province, killed Hamid Radman al-Manea, known as al-Radmi, and four of his guards, ...

Quetta :  A complete shutter down strike was observed in different parts of Balochistan Wednesday against the bomb attack on Sanaullah Zehri.The PML-N leader’s convoy came under a terror attack when a remote-controlled bomb went off at Anjeera area in Khuzdar district, killing his son, a ...

At least five persons were killed and seven others injured when a US drone struck a compound in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) here in Wana on Wednesday.According to details, an unmanned US spy plane fired two missiles at a residential compound located in village Sararogha of Babar Kot in SWA.As a ...

The latest round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 held in the Kazakh capital of Almaty on April 5-6 is said to have been the frankest and most detailed so far. For the very first time, the talks included a direct US-Iranian exchange of some 30 to 40 minutes — between Wendy Sherman, ...

QUETTA – The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) have agreed to make seat adjustments for the elections, providing Nawaz League a breakthrough in Balochistan.Former Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and BNP-M President Sardar Akthar Mengal ...

Dhaka   - A truck driver died in a northern Bangladesh city on Tuesday as clashes erupted during a nationwide strike called by the opposition to protest against the arrests of their senior leaders. The unrest is the latest to hit Bangladesh stemming from an on-going war crimes tribunal at ...

A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 children, officials said Sunday.The children were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province bordering Pakistan late on Saturday."Ten children and eight militants were killed in the ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - The District Bar Association decided to go on strike for indefinitely in favour of their demand for the establishment of Lahore High Court Faisalabad bench.The decision was made in the bar’s general body meeting held here the other day with its President Nazir Ahmad Raza in ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, South Korea said Thursday as the United States strengthened its Pacific missile defences amid intensifying threats from Pyongyang.Seoul's defence minister Kim Kwan-Jin said the missile could reach a "considerable ...

SEOUL (AFP/Reuters) - The North Korean army said Thursday it had final approval to launch ‘merciless’ military strikes on the United States, involving the possible use of ‘cutting-edge’ nuclear weapons.In a statement published by the official KCNA news agency, the General ...

LAHORE – On the directions of the Caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Federal Secretary Water & Power Sikandar Ahmed Rai and Wapda Chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah had a meeting with the representatives of the Zamindar Action Committee Balochistan (ZACB) and apprised them of the ...

Schools and businesses were shut Monday across Bangladesh on the second day of a general strike called by Islamist protesters, as three more demonstrators died in the deadliest violence since independence.Police said the three were killed in clashes in the south and northwest in continued protests ...

QUETTA – A complete shutter down strike was observed on Thursday in different towns of Makran Division on the second consecutive day against the alleged search operation of security forces in Mashkay Awaran. All shops, markets, private and government offices remained closed in Turbat, ...

KARACHI - The strike had completely halted the export and import activities while damaging the industrial manufacturing capacity of the country. It resulted in per day loss worth billions of rupees. In a letter to the higher authorities of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industries, the ...