News for January 2010
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies)
The Israeli military has disciplined two senior officers for the firing of white phosphorous shells toward a U.N. compound during the Gaza war, Israeli media said on Monday.
In the official response to a …
NICOSIA, Cyprus — President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat have achieved significant progress in resumed talks to reunify the divided island, UN Special Envoy for Cyprus Alexander Downer announced on Friday …
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies)
Israel has boosted security measures at its borders and embassies in the wake of the killing of a senior Hamas leader for which the Palestinian Islamists have blamed the Jewish state, Israeli public …
China threatened American firms that sell weapons to Taiwan with sanctions Saturday, increasing the pressure in a ballooning crisis that threatens to widen rifts in their relationship.
In a strongly worded protest, Beijing slammed Washington’s decision …
By Ivan Cairo
PARAMARIBO, Suriname; The inaugural Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Summit on Youth Development came to a conclusion in Suriname on Saturday with the endorsement of the main recommendations of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) …
Dear Sir:Amidst the excitement following the December 18th, 2009 Dominica General Elections, and the flurry of congratulatory messages received by the new government was an unusual note from the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of …
ZAGREB, Croatia — The trial against former Defence Minister Berislav Roncevic and his assistant, Ivo Bacic, began in a Zagreb court Friday (January 29th). The anti-corruption office, USKOK, charged them in late October with abuse …
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — As the world climbs out of a difficult recession, a Barbadian financial advisor suggests that now may be the time to invest.
Jeremy Stephen
According to Jeremy Stephen of the Barbados Business Enterprise …
Many Haitian children became orphans after the earthquake
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They say the Americans were held on the border with the Dominican Republic.
The group from Idaho-based charity …
Photo: Phuong Tran/IRIN
Maternal deaths in Burkina Faso stem largely from discrimination, Amnesty International says (file photo)
OUAGADOUGOU, 30 January 2010 (IRIN) – Too many obstacles still stand between women and safe childbirth in Burkina Faso, …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
At least 41 people were killed and 106 wounded, including women and children, Monday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.
Iraq is trying …
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Ottis Gibson has been granted permission to talk to West Indies about their vacant head coach’s job, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on its website on Sunday.
Ottis Gibson. AFP …
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) — Republika Srpska’s (RS) opposition Serb Democratic Party (SDS) expelled its former leader, Dragan Kalinic, on Sunday (January 31st) for “undermining the party’s unity”. Current SDS leader Mladen Bosic did …
The United States has announced a US$6.4 billion package of weapons, including PAC-3 missiles, to be sold to Taiwan, drawing strong protest from China.
China reiterated Saturday its stern objection to US arms sales to Taiwan, …
SANAA (Al Arabiya)
Yemen on Sunday arrested the second biggest arms dealer in the country just days after the capture of another top dealer, whose weapons depot was stolen by rebels fighting the government in the …
Their friendship has grown and survived despite the distance between Manila and Kuala Lumpur and the prison cells that kept them from each other and the rest of the world.
Deposed Philippine president Joseph Estrada and …
