There's less than a year until 'D Day' for the 2018/2022 World Cup Bid, with the hosts being announced amid much FIFA fanfare on 2 December 2010. Which means that the FFA have less than a year left to convince FIFA that, despite being a relati
LONDON - George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, an ex-UN weapons inspector said Saturday. Hans Blix, who led the UN weapons inspe
SEOUL - One person was killed and five injured in an explosion Thursday at a South Korean weapons test site, the defence ministry said. A spokesman said two of the five injured were seriously hurt by the blast, which happened when artillery shells
Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets? And what about Germany - a country where fear of atomkraft is so great that the last government opposed all civilian nuclea
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's new government has endorsed Hezbollah's right to keep its weapons. The decision came Wednesday in a statement that lays out the government's goals for the next four years. Lebanon's government is a shaky coalition of West
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons and participate in rebuilding the battered country, as part of reconciliation efforts he has said will be his main objective duri
A Hezbollah political official and his son-in-law sought this year to smuggle 1,200 machine guns from the United States to the militant Islamist group via Syria, according to indictments made public Tuesday against 10 men in federal court in Philade
KABUL - Afghan officials used talks with German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Thursday to petition Berlin to supply the fledgling national army with heavy weapons, the defence ministry said. Guttenberg, 37, named defence minister l
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