Rescuers south of Indonesia’s Jakarta have discovered several bodies at the crash site of a Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100, which dropped off the radar during a demonstration flight on Wednesday. No survivors were found at the remote mountain location. Indonesian officers have attempted to access the steep slope by foot and in military helicopters, but fog [...]

The Kremlin said Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin is too busy to attend a summit hosted by Barack Obama in the United States next week, in an inauspicious start to their new relationship. The G8 summit at the Camp David presidential retreat was to be Putin’s first foreign trip since returning to the presidency on [...]

A Russian jet carrying 50 passengers has disappeared from the radars during a demonstration flight for potential buyers in the Indonesian capital. Hijacking and a high-altitude crash into a mountain have not been ruled out. Due to low visibility and fog the helicopters had to stop the search and return to base. The rescue operation [...]

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has warned that the strategic pact with the US will be meaningless if the US continues killing Afghan civilians. Political analyst Ahmed Quraishi told RT that Karzai is learning the hard way he cannot trust US forces. ­RT: Just a week after Obama visited Afghanistan to confirm his future commitment to [...]

Tenants in east London are being evicted from their homes as landlords attempt to cash in on the Olympics, BBC News has learned. The housing charity Shelter says it has seen more evidence of landlords acting unscrupulously and evicting people illegally. One estate agent said properties typically rented for £350 per week were being marketed [...]

Europe’s 30-month effort to save the euro by slashing spending and debt levels risks turning into a crisis of political legitimacy  after EU leaders’ strategies collided spectacularly with the wishes of voters in Greece and France. The impasse was most graphically demonstrated when Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, insisted Athens must comply with the stringent terms [...]

Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia’s president for a third term after four years as prime minister. Putin was first elected president in 2000 and the new six-year term will keep him in power until 2018. Putin’s inauguration on Monday comes a day after an opposition protest drew more than 20,000 people, fewer [...]

The unmanned aerial vehicle industry is expected to bring in billions for domestic drone makers over the next few years. Where are the robotic aircraft manufacturers sending their stealth spy plans though? They aren’t saying. The American Independent reports that Texas’ Vanguard Defense Industries, a US Defense Department contractor that outfits the Pentagon with unmanned [...]

An al-Qaida terrorist on the run over the 2002 bombing of USS Cole has been killed by a suspected American drone in Yemen, according to local officials and the terror network. Fahd al-Qasaa was one of two men who died after an aircraft fired a missile into the Wadi Rafad valley in the country’s southern [...]

First official results show Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande has defeated incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy, who managed to secure only 48.3 per cent of the votes. Sarkozy has conceded defeat, asking that Hollande’s victory be respected. The estimates were carried by French media after all polling stations closed at 20:00 (18:00 GMT). Hollande will be [...]

The UK Defense Secretary is ready to give the order to shoot down an airliner if he believes the Olympic Games are being threatened by a 9/11 style attack. Speaking to the Evening Standard newspaper, Philip Hammond has said that he is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect London during the upcoming London [...]

Japan is shutting down its last working nuclear reactor as part of the safety drive imposed after the March 2011 tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima plant. The closure of the third reactor at the Tomari plant in Hokkaido prefecture, northern Japan, means all of the country’s 50 nuclear reactors have been taken offline, [...]

While Osama Bin Laden was at times viewed as the ultimate terrorist mastermind deftly directing Al-Qaeda’s global operations, declassified letters reveal an impotent figurehead plagued by “Muslims suffering at the hands of his jihadi brothers.” ­Seventeen declassified electronic letters or draft letters seized during the last year’s raid on Abbottabad have been released online by [...]

Russia has threatened NATO with military strikes against in Poland and Romania if a missile defence radar and interceptors are deployed in Eastern Europe. General Nikolai Makarov, Russia’s most senior military commander, warned Nato that if it proceeded with a controversial American missile defence system, force would be used against it. “A decision to use [...]

Egypt’s army imposed an overnight curfew around the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday after protesters clashed with troops there during demonstrations against the country’s military rulers, leaving one soldier dead and 373 people wounded. The crowd hurled projectiles and insults at the soldiers sent to defend the ministry after 11 people were killed in [...]