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Iran poll shows people want change, says Obama
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...
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President Rousseff says Brazil has woken up after massive protests
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Anti-graft protests swept Brazil's main cities as some 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets against alleged mis-governance, forcing President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday to acknowledge the need for better public services and effective administration. The assurance from Rousseff came a day after biggest protests rocked at least ten Brazilian cities, including Sao ...
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Talks between UK and Ecuador fail as Assange completes year in embassy
LONDON - Talks between the United Kingdom and Ecuador have ended without any breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's fate with the Andean nation. Ecquador said it was vowing not to succumb to diplomatic pressure and was ready to consider any request from Edward Snowden, another whistleblower, for asylum. As the fugitive anti-secrecy advocate marks one year holed up in the ...
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Libya to hold trial of Gaddafi's son in August
LONDON - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of deceased Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, will stand trial in August along with Gaddafi's last prime minister and a former intelligence director, the prosecutor's office has announced. The men will be tried for crimes against the Libyan people during the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime. Notorious former spy chief Abdullah ...
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Appeals court directs Ex-Im Bank to explain rationale for loan guarantee to Air India
WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...
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Google renews efforts wipe out child porn images from internet
LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. ...
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GSK negotiating sale of thrombosis drug and plant to Aspen
DURBAN / LONDON - South Africa's biggest generic drug maker Aspen Pharmacare and its subsidiary Aspen Global Incorporated have made an offer to acquire thrombosis drugs and their associated manufacturing site at Notre Dame de Bondeville, France, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). "AGI will acquire from GSK the Arixtra and Fraxiparine/Fraxodi brands and business worldwide, except in China, Pakistan ...
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Carbon trading to begin in Shenzhen in bid to cut emission
BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...
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Group of Eight leaders stop short of calling for Assad ouster
ENNISKILLEN - The Group of Eight industrialised nations called for a swift end to the bloody civil war in Syria and urgent peace talks but stopped short of calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in its joint statement at the end of talks Tuesday. Despite the lack of consensus among the G8 on the fate of Assad, as well as the use of chemical weapons by his regime, Canadian ...
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Rise in transportation costs push up UK inflation to 2.7pc
LONDON - The consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, mainly due to higher fuel costs pushing up transportation costs particularly airfares, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Tuesday. The ONS said the rise was due to a record increase in airfares and higher fuel prices. "The inflation rate has returned to the levels seen between ...
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Latvian Bank Fined For Magnitsky-Related Money Laundering
A Latvian bank has been hit with the stiffest fine possible for involvement in money laundering connected to the case of the whistle-blowing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Latvia's Financial and Capital Market Commission announced that it has levied a $191,000 fine on the bank for its role in laundering $230 million stolen from the Russian government. The regulator did not name the ...
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Final Charges Presented To Russian Opposition Activist
Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev has been presented with the final charges against him by investigators. Razvozzhayev was brought from a Moscow detention center to the Investigative Committee’s headquarters on June 19. He was officially charged with the preparation of and participation in mass unrest and illegal border crossing. Razvozzhayev was arrested in October ...
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Russian Rights Defender Fined For Refusing Demand For Documents
Prominent Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina has been fined for refusing to provide documents demanded by prosecutors. A court in Moscow ruled late on June 18 that the chairwoman of Moscow-based Civic Collaboration Committee must pay 2,000 rubles ($63) for failing to turn over papers related to the financial activities of her organization. Gannushkina, a Soviet-era veteran ...
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Four U.S. Soldiers Killed In Afghan Attack
The Taliban says it fired the rockets into Bagram Airfield that killed four U.S. soldiers. The attack north of Kabul came just hours after Taliban leaders said they were ready to start peace talks with the United States in Qatar later this week. In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said militants fired "two big rockets" into the Bagram compound late on June 18. ...
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Palestinians wanted in Josephs Tomb murder arrested
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last month arrested three Palestinian security operatives who were allegedly involved in the shooting death of an Israeli man and the wounding of five others near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus two years ago.On April 24, 2011, Ben Yosef Livnat was killed near the site after he and a group of worshippers entered the site to ...
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Brazil boosts security for Confed Cup
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government spending, the state news agency said on ...
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Assange fears arrest by US
London - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him, because he fears arrest on the order of the United ...
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Motorcycle bomber hits Yemeni market
Soldiers are seen in the streets of Sana'a, Yemen. Three people were killed and eight others were wounded when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up in a busy market in the north of the country, according to officials. File photo: Mohamed al-Sayaghi, ...
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Disabled woman ‘treated like a slave’
Chicago - A mentally disabled woman and her child were forced to live in an Ohio basement with snakes and pitbulls, and were treated like slaves for more than two years, US prosecutors said on ...
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Rousseff to marchers I can hear you
Sao Paulo - President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday sought to defuse a massive protest movement sweeping Brazil, acknowledging the need for better public services and more responsive governance as demonstrations continued in some cities around the ...
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Pictured The passenger on Hong Kong flight to the U.S. who screamed that he had secrets from the CIA and NSA leaker Edward Snowden
Another passenger filmed the disturbance with a cell phone on which Perry can be heard ranting: 'My name is Daniel Morgan Perrythey take my stuff away, then I become an ...
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World Bank warns global warming woes closing in
The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and ...
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Greece PM in fresh bid to break deadlock over broadcaster
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will on Wednesday make a last-ditch effort in talks with coalition allies to avert a crisis over his controversial shutdown of the state broadcaster which threatens to bring down his ...
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NSA claims secret surveillance programs have foiled at least 50 terror plots since the September 11 attacks
The head of the US National Security Agency has claimed secret surveillance programs have foiled at least 50 terror plots since the September 11 ...
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China executes former top official for raping 11 girls
Authorities in central China executed a former Communist Party official for raping 11 underage girls, state media said today, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of ...
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