150,000 students stage demo against Le Pen
PARIS, April 25: An estimated 150,000 students took to the streets across France for the fifth day running on Thursday to denounce far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, despite warnings that trouble...
Refugees turn away US trucks in protest
JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, April 25: Two US trucks delivering food, toys and tents to the Jenin refugee camp were turned away by an angry crowd on Thursday in protest against Washington’s...
Chechnya’s top leader killed, says Moscow
MOSCOW, April 25: Russia claimed on Thursday its troops had killed one of the country’s most wanted and reviled men, Khattab, an Arab-born Chechen guerilla leader with alleged links to Osama...
Milosevic’s army chief surrenders to tribunal
THE HAGUE, April 25: Former Yugoslav army commander General Dragoljub Ojdanic surrendered to The Hague war crimes tribunal on Thursday to face charges of committing war crimes in Kosovo under the...