Category: World NewsBut the octogenarian may not be able to bask in the limelight long. There are reports that Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Sherchan, 81, is planning an assault on the world’s highest peak next week, despite some recent intestinal problems. Sherchan frustrated Miura’s record-setting ambitions once before when, in May 2008, Miura conquered the mountain at [...]
Suicide bombers have launched simultaneous attacks on military and mining targets in Niger, prompting renewed fears that attacks by al-Qaida-linked jihadists could spill across borders in West Africa‘s Sahara desert. Cars packed with explosives were detonated at the same time almost 100 miles apart, killing at least 17 soldiers at a military barracks in Agadez, [...]
NEW YORK // A leading human rights organisation has criticised the United States’ increasing use of drone aircraft for the targeted killing of terrorism suspects overseas and questioned its legality. Amnesty International, in its global review of human rights issues, said the US drone policy was shrouded in secrecy but the killings appeared to amount [...]
23 May 2013 Last updated at 20:22 Drummer Lee Rigby was known as “Riggers” to his friends Drummer Lee Rigby, the soldier killed by two assailants in south-east London on Wednesday, had wanted to be in the Army since he was a little boy, his family has said. The 25-year-old, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, had [...]
By ADAM ENTOUS, JULIAN E. BARNES and COLLEEN MCCAIN NELSON Enlarge Image AFP/Getty Images President Obama outlined his administration’s drone and counterterrorism policies at the National Defense University in Washington on Thursday. WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama outlined the next phase of his administration’s counterterrorism efforts Thursday, detailing tighter standards for drone strikes and making the case [...]
LONDON — Scotland Yard has announced the arrest of two new suspects in the case of a young soldier who was hacked to death on a London street in an apparent terrorist attack. The new suspects, a man and a woman, both 29, were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder. Investigators gave no further [...]
In a political gesture of national significance, a 78-year-old extreme-right-wing historian opposed to same-sex marriage killed himself in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Tuesday. It was four p.m. and the famous Gothic church was crowded with an estimated 1500 visitors, when Dominique Venner, known for his extremist, ultra-traditional Catholic and anti-Islamic views, went up [...]
The judge set a July 9 trial date for the captain, Francesco Schettino, 52. He is accused of causing the ship to run aground, resulting in the deaths of 32 people, and then abandoning the vessel while many of its 4,229 passengers and crew members were still aboard. “Schettino’s indictment certainly did not come unexpected,” [...]
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A number of bills targeting Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program advanced in the U.S. Congress. The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved and sent to the full House a bill backed by Reps. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), the chairman of the committee, and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), its senior Democrat, [...]
PYONGYANG, North Korea – After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country’s most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance. The [...]
If you are just joining us, the news is that one man has died and two suspects have been shot by police following a suspected terrorist incident in Woolwich, south-east London. Footage has emerged showing a man, apparently one of two attackers, wielding a bloodied meat cleaver and making statements including: “We swear by almighty [...]
Alaa al-Marjani / AP Ali Karim weeps over his daughter’s coffin before her burial in the holy Shi‘ite city of Najaf, Iraq, on May 20, 2013 In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi [...]
CAIRO | Wed May 22, 2013 3:42am EDT CAIRO (Reuters) – Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were released on Wednesday, ending a crisis that has highlighted lawlessness in the desert peninsula bordering Israel. Security sources said the men were freed following talks mediated by Bedouin [...]
Japan may re-open talks with North Korea over the issue of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, an official said, days after an aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a surprise visit to Pyongyang. “We are sounding out a way to make that possible,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters today in Tokyo, declining [...]
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan says it shares “identical views” on foreign policy with China, whose premier is beginning a two-day visit to Islamabad in the latest sign of the tight relationship between the two Asian powers. Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday following a trip to Pakistan’s neighbor and archenemy India. A Pakistani Foreign [...]
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22 May 2013 Last updated at 09:21 Mr Mashaei (left) is a protege of Mr Ahmadinejad Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will contest the disqualification of his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from next month’s presidential poll. Mr Mashaei and ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have been excluded by the Guardian Council, which vets election candidates. [...]
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Religious experts claim the Pope carried out an “exorcism” on a boy in a wheelchair. Footage from a Roman Catholic TV channel apparently shows Pope Francis gripping the boy’s head and pushing him down hard into his chair while reciting a prayer. The youth’s mouth is said to have dropped open and he convulsed [...]
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Divide Nigeria Peacefully OR by Civil War
The fact that Boko Haram has succeeded in waging war against Nigeria in total violation of the fundamental principles of society means Nigeria security arrangements have failed, and either the personnel are untrained or ill-equipped to meet the present and future threats to Nigeria territorial integrity The perpetual granting of amnesty to people who commit [...]
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Japan, a subtle but effective partner for Africa
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