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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Five men accused of the gang rape and murder of an Indian student arrived in court on Monday to hear charges against them, after two of them offered evidence possibly in return for a lighter sentence in a case that has provoked widespread anger. The five men, along with a teenager, [...]
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SAfrica’s ANC party to choose leader amid turmoil
Posted by admin on December 15th, 2012
South Africa’s governing African National Congress political party will return to where it first formed a century ago to pick its next leader, at a time some believe the movement is fighting to regain its moral high ground. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
IMF loan to Egypt delayed amid political turmoil
Posted by admin on December 11th, 2012
CAIRO (Reuters) – A vital $ 4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan to Egypt will be delayed until next month, its finance minister said on Tuesday, intensifying the political crisis gripping the Arab world's most populous nation. As rival factions gathered in Cairo for a new round of demonstrations, Finance Minister Mumtaz al-Said said the [...]
Guinea-Bissau turmoil sparks cocaine and cashew crisis: U.N.
Posted by admin on November 29th, 2012
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Cocaine trafficking through drug hub Guinea Bissau is spreading unabated amid turmoil sparked by an April military coup that has slashed the West African country’s key cashew crop and almost halved its economic growth, the United Nations said. The coup has set back Western efforts to combat drug cartels using Guinea [...]
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No Comments »Romney Flubs Attack Over Embassy Turmoil
Posted by admin on September 12th, 2012
First Read: “This was news-cycle campaigning by the Romney campaign gone awry. Why didn’t the Romney campaign wait until it had all the facts? On his overseas trip in the summer, Romney was so careful not to criticize Obama while on foreign soil. But how much time do you give an administration to work through [...]
Echoes of Lebanon civil war as Syrian turmoil spreads
Posted by admin on August 17th, 2012
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Tit-for-tat kidnappings by Syrian rebels and Lebanese Shi’ite gunmen have escalated tensions in Lebanon, where the specter of contagion from Syria’s conflict is alarming the fractured and war-scarred Mediterranean nation. Despite government efforts to insulate it from turmoil in its once dominating neighbor, Lebanon has seen armed clashes in its two largest [...]
Nepal faces fresh turmoil after charter deadline missed
Posted by admin on May 27th, 2012
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s warring political parties failed to meet a midnight deadline to agree on a new constitution on Sunday, plunging the Himalayan republic into further uncertainty, but the government moved quickly to defuse the crisis with a call for elections. A new constitution was widely seen as crucial to ending the instability that [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: After, charter, deadline, Faces, Fresh, missed, Nepal, Turmoil No Comments »Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker’s breakdown
Posted by admin on April 2nd, 2012
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The public meltdown of the man behind the viral “Kony 2012″ video has thrown his campaign into turmoil even as the film succeeded in turning the world’s attention to capturing an elusive and brutal Ugandan warlord. Jason Russell, whose 30-minute video sensation shone a spotlight on Joseph Kony’s use of child [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: After, AntiKony, breakdown, Campaign, filmmaker's, Turmoil No Comments »Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker’s breakdown
Posted by admin on March 24th, 2012
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The public meltdown of the man behind the viral “Kony 2012″ video has thrown his campaign into turmoil even as the film succeeded in turning the world’s attention to capturing an elusive and brutal Ugandan warlord. Jason Russell, whose 30-minute video sensation shone a spotlight on Joseph Kony’s use of child [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: After, AntiKony, breakdown, Campaign, filmmaker's, Turmoil No Comments »US: Afghanistan turmoil won’t change US war plan
Posted by admin on February 28th, 2012
The Obama administration is sticking determinedly to its stay-the-course message in Afghanistan despite a week of anti-American riots, the point-blank killing of U.S. military advisers and growing election-year demands to bring the troops home. Tweet This Post
