12 Mar 10 -
INITIAL election results from two mainly Shiite Iraqi provinces put Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the lead yesterday, as rival blocs voiced doubts over the vote count. Four days after the election, Maliki and his main secular...
12 Mar 10 -
THREE south Yemeni independence activists were killed and five wounded yesterday when demonstrations in southern towns sparked clashes with police, opposition sources said. Two Southern Movement followers were killed and two wounded in a...
12 Mar 10 -
A FORMER member of the Bosnian wartime presidency, Ejup Ganic, who was arrested in Britain last week on suspicion of war crimes, was released on bail by the High Court in London yesterday. Ganic, 64, being held in London's Wandsworth...
12 Mar 10 -
A RESPECTED international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said last Wednesday. Ban told reporters that the...
12 Mar 10 -
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a public apology to the visiting US Vice-President yesterday in a bid to defuse a row over settlements which prompted a Palestinian boycott of indirect peace talks. Vice-President Joe...
12 Mar 10 -
HAMAS yesterday released a British reporter held in its Gaza enclave, the only foreigner to be arrested in the territory since the group seized power in June 2007. A clean-shaven and apparently healthy Martin told reporters on the Gaza...
12 Mar 10 -
RESIDENTS of a central Nigerian state scarred by deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians began a three-day fast yesterday in a symbolic commitment to reconciliation. Plateau state governor Jonah Jang announced late last Wednesday a...
12 Mar 10 -
FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change. Sarkozy, opening a one-day conference on...
12 Mar 10 -
NINE Russians from a neo-Nazi group that called itself "Simbirsk White Power" were jailed yesterday for up to 22 years in connection with the murder of an African, investigators said. A court in the central Russian city of...
12 Mar 10 -
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo called yesterday for all UN troops to pull out in 2011, a move which human rights groups say would spell disaster for civilians caught up in conflict there. Nearly 22,000 peacekeepers with the United Nations'...
