Tel Aviv - Tens of thousands of Israelis flocked to Tel Aviv's main Rabin Square Saturday night as the city kicked off its centenary celebrations with a gala concert featuring more than 1,000 singers, dancers and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
In preparation for the celebrations, the city on Friday held a series of street concerts, while a special prayer session was held Saturday morning, the Jewish Sabbath.
Islamabad - A pair of suicide bombings left 16 people, including nine paramilitary soldiers, dead across Pakistan Saturday.
At least eight members of Pakistan's security forces were killed and four others were injured in a suicide bombing at a paramilitary camp in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
The blast occurred in the upmarket residential area of F-7/3, where paramilitary troops from the Frontier Corps (FC) were deployed to guard several embassies, UN offices and diplomatic residences in the area.
Washington - The massacre at a social centre in Binghamton in New York State on Friday, in which 14 people died, was not an act of terrorism, police said Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban movement said that "his men" had carried out the New York attack in retribution for US missile strikes on militants in Pakistan.
Binghamton police chief Joseph Zikuski said that there was "absolutely no evidence" that any terrorist activity was behind the shooting. The FBI on Saturday also denied any terrorist link.
Islamabad - At least eight members of Pakistan's security forces were killed and four others were injured Saturday in a suicide bombing at a paramilitary camp in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, a police official said.
The blast occurred in the upmarket residential area of E-7, where the paramilitary troops from the Frontier Corps (FC) were deployed to guard several embassies, UN offices and diplomatic residences in the area.
Islamabad - At least six members of the security forces were killed and more than a dozen were injured Saturday in a suicide bombing at a paramilitary camp in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, eyewitnesses said.
The blast occurred in the upmarket residential area of E-7 where the paramilitary troops from Frontier Corps (FC) were deployed to guard several embassies, UN offices and diplomatic residences in the area.
Washington - A US judge on Monday cleared the way for John Demjanjuk, a war-crimes suspect from the Nazi era, to be deported to Germany.
Tel Aviv - Tens of thousands of Israelis flocked to Tel Aviv's main Rabin Square Saturday night as the city kicked off its centenary celebrations with a gala concert featuring more than 1,000 singers, dancers and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Islamabad - A pair of suicide bombings left 16 people, including nine paramilitary soldiers, dead across Pakistan Saturday.
Washington - The massacre at a social centre in Binghamton in New York State on Friday, in which 14 people died, was not an act of terrorism, police said Saturday.
Islamabad - At least eight members of Pakistan's security forces were killed and four others were injured Saturday in a suicide bombing at a paramilitary camp in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, a police official said.
Islamabad - At least six members of the security forces were killed and more than a dozen were injured Saturday in a suicide bombing at a paramilitary camp in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, eyewitnesses said.
