BRUSSELS, Feb 3: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a “strong likelihood” that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said on Thursday in an editorial.
Cairo, Feb 3: Protesters laid siege to Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Friday, extending a rally against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country’s worst soccer disaster.
London, Feb 3: Worldwide malaria deaths may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, a study reports. The research, published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggests 1.24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010.