Kabul - Afghan and NATO officials said they launched an operation to push out Taliban militants who recently overran several villages in southern Afghanistan, began on Wednesday.

Melbourne, June 18: A Senate investigation unveiled today found that senior Pentagon officials began planning to use abusive tactics at Guantánamo Bay earlier than they previously acknowledged, borrowing from a programme that trained US troops to resist cruel interrogations.

Harsh interrogation techniques used at US “War on Terror” prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay were sanctioned by top US Government officials in 2002 against the advice of lawyers from all branches of the military, a senior US senator alleged today.

London, June 18:

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Singapore - A new Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has emerged from its achievements in cyclone-swept Myanmar, showing the world that the regional body is able to "rise to the occasi

Jerusalem - Israel overnight accepted an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Hamas that is to take effect at 6 am (0300 GMT) Thursday, Israel Radio reported.