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By Diego Ore
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday security forces arrested a member of a gang led by accused plane bomber Luis Posada Carriles and suggested the El Salvadorian suspect planned …
WASHINGTON (AFP)
Iran has moved radar to Syria that could provide early-warning against a possible surprise Israeli air attack against Tehran’s nuclear sites, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
The radar transfer was first reported in …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for a surprise visit aimed at bolstering Iraq’s fledgling democracy almost four months after an inconclusive election.
Biden, wearing a blue blazer and khaki slacks, …
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands – All sixteen members of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) have renewed their policies for hurricane and earthquake coverage for the 2010/11 year beginning on 1 June – the start …
BRADES, Montserrat – A resolution to adopt the new draft Constitution Order for Montserrat has been delayed until September to allow for more public education and discussion.
Chief Minister Reuben Meade spent significant time during Tuesday’s Legislative Council reading …
Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
Kulmiye supporters on the campaign trail in Hargeisa: Kulmiye leader Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, better known as Silaanyo, was declared Somaliland President on 1 July
HARGEISA, 2 July 2010 (IRIN) – Opposition leader Ahmed …
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Muslim men are allowed to marry up to four wives
MOMBASA, 2 July 2010 (PlusNews) – Binti Omar waits anxiously for her HIV test in a tent erected as part of a …
By Diego Ore
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday security forces arrested a member of a gang led by accused plane bomber Luis Posada Carriles and suggested the El Salvadorian suspect planned …
BAGHDAD (Agencies)
US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for a surprise visit aimed at bolstering Iraq’s fledgling democracy almost four months after an inconclusive election.
Biden, wearing a blue blazer and khaki slacks, …
WASHINGTON (AFP)
Iran has moved radar to Syria that could provide early-warning against a possible surprise Israeli air attack against Tehran’s nuclear sites, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
The radar transfer was first reported in …
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Community Council of Ministers of CARICOM and the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on External Negotiations will convene in Montego Bay, Jamaica, ahead of Sunday’s formal opening of the 31st Meeting of the Conference …
By Anthony L. Hall
President Obama and other G20 leaders met in Toronto last week to draw up more plans for a coordinated approach to combating the ongoing global financial crisis.
Never mind that each leader duly …
By Wellington C. Ramos
The Mayas are the indigenous people of southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala Honduras and El Salvador, numbering about seven million people, but among them there were cultural differences such as the Yucatec, Kekchi …
by Alice Speri
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — When the first story began only a handful of kids sat on the wet ground, watching and listening intently as a woman read aloud to them in the Port-au-Prince …
Bandar Abbas, IRAN (AP)
Iranian helicopters scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf waters on Saturday as family members and relatives remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years …
CAIRO (Reuters)
Egypt’s public prosecutor has sent two policemen for trial on charges of torturing an activist, who rights groups said may have been beaten to death by officers after he exposed alleged police corruption.
The state …
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Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
The new president, seen here in a campaign poster for the 2010 election, has to tackle the violence in the east, say analysts (file photo)
HARGEISA, 28 July 2010 (IRIN) – Negotiating a …
Santiago metropolitan region suffering power outage
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The announcement followed several blackouts this month, the latest being earlier this week, throughout the Santiago Metropolitan Region, as …
POLICE in Leicester are probing how a health drink came to be contaminated with horse tranquilliser after two women were rushed to hospital moments after drinking it.
Two women from the city developed a number of …
By Gillian Applewhaite
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) — There have been over one million Chinese "visitors" to Barbados during the past three months, with another four million expected by the end of October.
Word of this comes from …
A summer school for media professionals, organised by the International Research and Exchanges Board, was held earlier this month in Serbia.
By Sasa Ilic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade — 30/07/10
USAID and IREX train media …
LONDON/ WASHINGTON (AFP)
An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran pleaded to be allowed to hug her children, in a letter attributed to her released by human rights activists in London …
