(BBC) Peru's army imposes curfews in areas of Amazonas state after deadly clashes with indigenous protesters over land use.
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June 6, 2009
Bodies, debris retrieved from Air France crash
RECIFE, Brazil/PARIS (Reuters) - Brazilian search crews on Saturday retrieved the first bodies from a crashed Air France flight in the Atlantic, and investigators said faulty speed readings had been found on the same type of jets.
Deaths rise to 41 children in Mexico day-care fire
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (Reuters) - The death toll from a fire at a day-care center in Mexico rose to 41 children on Sunday and a dozen more were fighting for their lives in hospitals.
Lebanon votes in tight election
(BBC) Lebanese people take part in a fiercely contested poll pitting the ruling Western-backed coalition against the Hezbollah-led bloc.
Supporters of Iran election rivals clash: witness
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Supporters and opponents of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed in a Tehran square on Saturday evening and some cars were set on fire, a witness said, in a sign of rising tension ahead of the June 12 election.
Somali battle kills 123, rebels deny leader Aweys dead
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Battles between rival Islamist groups in central Somalia have killed 123 people, a rights group said on Saturday, and a pro-government militia said militant rebel leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys had died in the fighting.
June 5, 2009
Mosque bombing in Pakistan heightens fears of Taliban backlash
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A suicide bomb ripped through a mosque packed with worshippers in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 38 people and wounding dozens more in the deadliest of such attacks in more than two months.
Two charged as Cuban spies in US
(BBC) The US charges a former government official and his wife with spying for Cuba over a 30-year period.
Death trap
(BBC) Why did 76 people die in a South African gold mine?
Fire kills at least 29 children at Mexican daycare
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A fire at a daycare center in northern Mexico on Friday killed at least 29 children and injured others, the government said.
Leaders' tribute to D-Day heroes
Allied leaders pay tribute to veterans as they mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Deadly clashes in Peru's Amazon
(BBC) At least 31 people are killed in clashes in Peru between the security forces and indigenous people in the Amazon region.
Harsh Austerity Measures Implemented in Ethiopia
(VOA) Ethiopia, already among the poorest countries, has suffered a series of recent economic setbacks, forcing officials to take drastic countermeasures to avoid a financial meltdown.
June 4, 2009
Knife edge vote
(BBC) Lebanese flock home from abroad for elections
China bus fire kills at least 24: Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) - A bus caught fire in the southwestern province of Sichuan on Friday, killing at least 24 people, Xinhua news agency said.
Obama seeks to change Muslim perceptions of U.S.
CAIRO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought to change Muslim perceptions of the United States on Thursday in a speech that urged Arabs and Israelis to declare in public the realities he said they accept in private.
U.S. to impose financial sanctions on North Korea: report
SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States has told South Korea it is preparing financial measures to punish North Korea for illicit weapons trade and counterfeit activities in the wake of its nuclear test last week, a newspaper report said on Friday.
Dutch far right gains in EU vote: exit polls
BRUSSELS/THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Exit polls showed a Dutch anti-immigration party made gains on Thursday on the first day of a European Parliament election that is expected to punish governments struggling to cope with the global economic crisis.
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
On the occasion of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression the IRCT calls for increased efforts to end torture against children and urges the UN General Assembly to swiftly appoint a person to the position as UN Special Representative on Violence against Children.
June 3, 2009
Obama set for Egypt speech
US President Barack Obama arrives in Egypt, where he will deliver a major speech on the second leg of his Mid-East tour.
Pyongyang justice
(BBC) The two Americans on trial for spying in N Korea
Iraq's Kurds, Arabs face choice: settle or fight
KHANAQIN, Iraq (Reuters) - In a lively market town hotly disputed between Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad's Arab-led government, Khalil Ibrahim points at the ground under his feet to illustrate what he thinks the dispute is about: oil.
OAS ends Cuba suspension after 47 years
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (Reuters) - The Organization of American States lifted its 47-year suspension of Cuba on Wednesday in a move backed by Washington, but Cuban state-run TV said Havana had no interest in rejoining the group.
Turnout fears as EU goes to polls
(BBC) Elections to the European Parliament begin on Thursday amid fears that past poor turnout will be repeated.
CONGO: Lack of services, information, blamed for acute malnutrition - IRINnews.org
CONGO: Lack of services, information, blamed for acute malnutrition IRINnews.org, NY NAIROBI, 3 June 2009 (IRIN) - Nutritional surveillance should be reinforced and therapeutic and supplementary feeding units extended to reduce acute malnutrition levels among children under five years old in the Republic of Congo, according to a survey ... |
'Untouchable' elected India's first woman speaker
NEW DELHI: India's parliament elected on Wednesday its first woman speaker, who is also a member of the low-caste Dalit community, an event hailed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a "historic occasion".
June 2, 2009
Brazil navy races to pull Air France wreck from sea
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian navy divers rushed on Wednesday to reach the wreckage of an Air France jet and start the grim job of pulling debris from the Atlantic Ocean, where the plane with 228 people went down in the airline's worst disaster in its 75-year history.
Qaeda in North Africa says killed British hostage
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North Africa wing said on Wednesday it has carried out its threat to kill a British hostage being held in the Sahara.
US presses China over Tiananmen
The US urges China to publicly account for those killed in Tiananmen Square, 20 years after pro-democracy protests.
US journalists to go on trial in NKorea amid nuclear tensions
SEOUL: Two US women journalists will go on trial in North Korea's highest court Thursday on charges that could send them to a labour camp, amid growing international tensions sparked by Pyongyang's nuclear test.
Opposition win Greenland election
(BBC) The left-wing opposition wins Greenland's landmark elections, ousting the ruling Social Democrats.
Guantanamo Yemeni 'kills himself'
(BBC) A Yemeni inmate dies in an apparent suicide at the US Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the US military says.
BANGLADESH: Cyclone leaves trail of contaminated water sources - IRINnews.org
BANGLADESH: Cyclone leaves trail of contaminated water sources IRINnews.org, NY DHAKA, 2 June 2009 (IRIN) - One week after Cyclone Aila struck southern Bangladesh, survivors in some areas are facing acute shortages of drinking water after many water sources were contaminated. “The dire situation has yet to improve,” Mohammad Badi ... |
June 1, 2009
North Korea's Kim moves to anoint youngest son as heir
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has signaled the anointment of his youngest son as heir to the ruling family dynasty as the two Koreas bolstered their militaries along a disputed sea border on Tuesday.
Inside Hezbollah
BBC gains access a fighter from the Lebanese militia
High seas search for Air France jet continues
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Search planes scoured the dark waters of the Atlantic Ocean early on Tuesday, looking for the remains of an Air France jetliner that disappeared in a severe storm with 228 people on board.
Pakistani army rescues kidnapped students
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani soldiers Tuesday rescued scores of students and staff from a military-run college who were abducted by Taliban militants in the northwest of the country, a military spokesman said.
Leftist Funes takes over as El Salvador's president
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Leftist Mauricio Funes was sworn in as El Salvador's president on Monday, vowing a break with a past scarred by civil war as he brought a party founded by Marxist guerrillas to power for the first time.
May 31, 2009
Tiananmen mothers won't let memory of their dead fade
BEIJING (Reuters) - Twenty years after her teenage son was shot by troops near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Zhang Xianling is still trying to work out how many others died with him.
US abortion doctor is shot dead
(BBC) Controversial US abortion doctor George Tiller has been shot and killed at a church in his home state of Kansas.
Sri Lanka Tamils 'facing misery'
(BBC) Hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians displaced in northern Sri Lanka should be resettled quickly, a political leader says.
Egypt mufti issues fatwa on WMDs
(BBC) Muslims should not use weapons of mass destruction and have them only as a deterrent, Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa says.
Ranchers driving wind revolution
(BBC) Wind farms on the US's high plains could eventually help power the country's coastal population centres, experts say.
Cracks show in Bulgaria's Muslim ethnic model
KRUMOVGRAD, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Twenty years after Bulgaria's then-Communist regime mounted an official campaign of persecution against its Muslim minority, Mustafa Yumer fears rising xenophobia could bring the nightmare back.
Pakistan city centre 'destroyed'
(BBC) The scale of war damage to the main city in the Swat valley becomes clear, a day after it was captured by Pakistan troops.
Rebel Georgian region holds election, tension builds
TSKHINVALI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgia's rebel region of South Ossetia voted on Sunday in its first election since Russian forces saved it from being retaken by Georgian troops, but internal tensions grew over its leader's policies.
Israeli government rejects loyalty oath
(BBC) The Israeli cabinet rejects a controversial proposal to require Israeli citizens to take an oath of loyalty to the Jewish state.
Afghan presidential hopeful vows to create PM post
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan presidential hopeful and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah said he would revise Afghanistan's constitution to install a prime minister and boost the powers of parliament if he wins elections in August.
Cuba accepts US migration talks
Havana agrees to resume talks with Washington on immigration by Cubans to the US, the state department says.
Tensions emerge at first Kuwait parliament session
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Almost a fifth of Kuwait's newly elected members of parliament walked out of Sunday's first session to protest against the new cabinet line-up, a sign that tensions that had almost paralyzed lawmaking were still alive.
Hong Kong protest over Tiananmen
(BBC) Thousands march in Hong Kong ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen killings, in one of the few such events on Chinese soil.
'Race' attacks spark Indian rally
(BBC) At least 2,000 Indian students and supporters protest in Australia over attacks which they say are racially motivated.
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