News for February 2010
Ms Anoma Fonsekaâs request that her husband Gen (Rtd) Sarath Fonseka now in military custody be bailed out, will be taken up today (February 23).
Fonseka, hailed as Sri Lanka’s hero for ending the 30-year Tamil …
Photo: Kate Holt/IRIN
New guidelines target the most vulnerable living with HIV
JOHANNESBURG, 23 February 2010 (PlusNews) – New national treatment guidelines are set to make the world’s largest antiretroviral (ARV) programme even bigger as South …
ANKARA, Turkey — President Abdullah Gul called for parliamentary consensus Monday (February 22nd) on possible constitutional reforms, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Madrid that the government is working on a package …
Photo: Judith Basutama/IRIN
A food crisis in Kirundo province – the result of failed rains – has prompted many women to make a long daily commute to neighbouring Rwanda, where a day’s work in a …
Mrs. Kirchner thanked her peers during the opening speech in Mexico
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“There continues to be systematic violation of international law that should be respected by …
A Malaysian consulate driver, who was believed to be involved in a road rage incident, was stabbed and bashed to death with a hammer by two men in a âferociousâ attack in Sydney.
Mohd Shah Saemin, …
BRUSSELS (Agencies)
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday denounced Israeli “provocation” over two contested holy sites in the occupied West Bank that could unleash a “religious war.”
Netanyahu sparked outrage in the Arab world on Sunday when …
KHARTOUM (Agencies)
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir told supporters Wednesday the Darfur conflict was over as he announced the release of 57 Darfur rebels a day after inking a ceasefire and initial peace deal with some …
Photo: Salla Himberg/IRIN
One of the homes constructed under the Huruma slum upgrading project
NAIROBI, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) – Four years after an innovative slum-upgrading project was launched in Huruma, to the northeast of …
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) – Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, announced the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States at the Summit of the Latin America and Caribbean Unity, underway in Cancun.
Mexico’s President Felipe …
TEHRAN (AFP)
A top Iranian official said on Wednesday that seized Sunni militant Abdolmalek Rigi will be put on public trial, and urged his associates to give themselves up to the Islamic republic’s authorities.
“Rigi will be …
DUBAI (Saud al-Zahed)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed once again to “cut the hands” of Iran’s enemies if the Islamic republic came under attack, AFP reported Tuesday.
“We will welcome a hand extended in friendship, but if anywhere …
Photo: Guy Oliver/IRIN
Zimbabwean migrants arriving in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, 23 February 2010 (IRIN) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) restored voting rights to Zimbabwe on 22 February 2010, but any new loans for …
Controversial rulings stir accusations that judges are using the constitutional court as a political tool.
By Goran Trajkov for Southeast European Times in Skopje — 24/02/10
Macedonia’s Constitutional Court in session. [Tomislav Georgiev/SETimes]
Stung by widespread criticism that …
HAMILTON, Bermuda — The World Insurance Forum (WIF), is returning to Bermuda after a highly successful 2008 event in Dubai. The 2010 WIF, to be held March 14-16, will, for the first time, feature four …
Authorities seek clues that could lead to the arrest of The Hague’s most-wanted war crimes fugitive.
(AFP, AP, CBC, DPA, UPI, BBC, RTTNews, AKI, Telegraph, Euronews, Beta, B92, Radio Srbija — 23/02/10)
A member of the anti-terrorist …
