SMOLENSK, Russia/WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's President Lech Kaczynski, its central bank head and the country's military chief were among 97 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog near a Russian airport on Saturday.
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April 10, 2010
Bangkok death toll climbs to 20
At least 20 people are now known to have died in clashes between Thai troops and opposition supporters in Bangkok.
Nuclear rethink
(BBC) The US and Russia are one step closer to nuclear disarmament, after signing the New Start treaty at a lavish ceremony in Prague. But a curious hangover from the threat of nuclear Armageddon is still in use across the Czech Republic.
ZIMBABWE: Food insecurity threatens rural villages
(IRIN) - The villagers of Nkalanje, in Zimbabwe's arid Matabeleland South Province, use bells tied around the necks of their livestock to track animals that roam ever greater distances in search of sparse tufts of grass as a dry spell tightens its grip in the already food insecure country.
April 9, 2010
US Supreme Court judge to retire
(BBC) Justice John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the US Supreme Court, announces his retirement just days before his 90th birthday.
Somalis on the move but fewer reach safe havens: UNHCR
GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalis are fleeing fighting around Mogadishu but fewer are reaching safe havens in Yemen or Kenya due to rising insecurity and fears of recruitment by Islamist insurgents on the way, the U.N. refugee agency said.
Missing the party
(BBC) Has Sudan already failed its historic election test?
ASEAN summit tackles Myanmar polls, regional integration
HANOI : Southeast Asian leaders on Friday pressed troublesome member Myanmar to ensure its elections this year are fair and inclusive, at a summit focused on binding together the sprawling region.
In the crossfire
(BBC) Plight of Indian villagers caught in Maoist insurgency
April 8, 2010
Kyrgyz interim leader says president stirs turmoil
By Maria Golovnina BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's new leadership on Friday offered President Kurmanbek Bakiyev safe passage from the country after accusing his supporters of stoking a violent response to an uprising in the strategic Central Asian state.
Sri Lanka ruling alliance wins parliamentary majority
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda's Rajapaksa's ruling coalition has won a simple majority of seats in parliament, official results said on Friday, as counting continued.
Special Report: Southern Sudan: oil boom to bust-up?
TEREKEKA, Sudan (Reuters) - With southern Sudan stumbling toward independence next year, the Chinese oil workers in Africa's biggest country are bracing for trouble. For southern villagers like Maria Jande, trouble is already here.
Mexico may cut millions of cellphones to fight crime
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tens of millions of Mexicans could find their cellphones disconnected this weekend if the government goes ahead with a new law meant to fight crime by forcing people to register their identities.
Nuclear summit takes aim at unsecured bomb material
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Dozens of world leaders gather in Washington next week for an unprecedented meeting on nuclear security, with U.S. President Barack Obama hoping they can agree on how to keep atomic bombs out of terrorists' hands.
Pakistan to curb president powers
The parliament of Pakistan votes unanimously to approve measures which limit key presidential powers.
Comparing aid efficiency - IRINnews.org
Comparing aid efficiency IRINnews.org DAKAR, 8 April 2010 (IRIN) - Multilateral donors like the World Bank and the European Commission spend far more than individual country donors on overheads, ... |
Henna 'capital'
(BBC) Sudan's henna wedding tattoos in sound and pictures
Thai authorities shut down protesters' TV station
BANGKOK : Thailand's government pulled the plug Thursday on the television channel of "Red Shirt" protesters who have occupied Bangkok's commercial heartland, defying a state of emergency in the capital.
Militants bomb three girls' schools in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD : Militants bombed three girls' schools on the outskirts of Pakistan's city of Peshawar, the latest in a wave of Islamist attacks on educational institutions, a provincial minister said Thursday.
April 7, 2010
Sri Lanka legislative polls close
Voting closes in Sri Lanka's general election, with the president seeking to strengthen his hold on power.
Kyrgyz opposition seizes power, orders looters shot
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's opposition said on Thursday it had seized power in the impoverished and strategically important Central Asian state after an uprising forced President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to flee the capital.
Obama and Medvedev sign arms treaty, press Iran
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The United States and Russia signed a landmark strategic nuclear disarmament treaty on Thursday and said new sanctions may be necessary to put pressure on Iran to renounce its nuclear ambitions.
Watchdogs lament Fiji media curbs
(BBC) Media freedom groups criticise new laws in Fiji to control media, announced by Commodore Bainimarama this week.
Rio rescuers scour for landslide victims, 153 dead
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of rescue workers scrambled on Thursday to find residents buried by a landslide near Rio de Janeiro as the death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's second-largest city rose to 153.
Clashes escalate in Kyrgyz crisis
(BBC) Kyrgyzstan's government is struggling to hold onto power, as 17 people are killed in spreading clashes between protesters and police.
China, India leaders to set up hotline
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and India agreed to set up a top level hotline on Wednesday, sealing a "cordial" Beijing visit by India's foreign minister that consolidated an improvement in ties between the sometimes fractious neighbors.
Family affair
(BBC) Rajapaksa dynasty out in force for Sri Lanka election
Gang rivalry
(BBC) Venezuela trade union members face rising violence
PAKISTAN: Unofficial healthcare discrimination against Bengalis - IRINnews.org
PAKISTAN: Unofficial healthcare discrimination against Bengalis IRINnews.org KARACHI, 7 April 2010 (IRIN) - All housemaid Shehr Bano needed to survive the late stages of Hepatitis B was good palliative care. ... |
April 6, 2010
Protests force state of emergency in Bangkok
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters stormed Thailand's parliament on Wednesday, forcing the deputy prime minister to flee by helicopter and sparking a state of emergency in the capital in an increasingly bold attempt to force elections.
Kyrgyz protests spread to capital
(BBC) Riot police fire tear gas and stun grenades to disperse opposition protesters in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, reports say.
North Korea sentences U.S. man to 8 years hard labor
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it had sentenced an American man to eight years of hard labor for illegally entering the country, a decision that could further strain ties with Washington.
Boom time?
(BBC) Mineral-rich Mongolia on verge of huge growth
Peru urged to investigate deaths
(BBC) A rights group calls on Peru to investigate the deaths of six civilians during a protest against mining reforms.
Race hate lives on in 'rainbow nation'
(BBC) The South African town where race hate lives on
Kyrgyz government office stormed
(BBC) Kyrgyz police fire tear gas as hundreds of protesters storm a regional government building and try to remove the governor.
British parties launch month-long election campaign
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday launched a month-long election campaign likely to be dominated by the economy and shaping up to be the most unpredictable contest since 1992.
Turtles die in nets 'in millions'
(BBC) Millions of marine turtles have been killed over the past two decades through entrapment in fishing gear, a survey concludes.
Defiant Thai protesters resume city march
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters poured onto Bangkok streets declared no-go zones by the government on Tuesday in defiance of so far hollow threats by the authorities to arrest and imprison demonstrators.
Priestly vows
(BBC) Does Catholic celibacy encourage child sex abuse?
The art of war
(BBC) Why do we need oil painters in a combat zone?
Baghdad blasts kill at least 35
A series of large explosions hits the centre of Baghdad killing at least 35 people, officials say.
Future vision?
(BBC) Brazil's striking 'new' capital turns 50 this month
Maoists 'kill 72 Indian soldiers'
Maoist rebels kill at least 72 soldiers in a series of attacks on security convoys in central India, police say.
April 5, 2010
West Virginia mine explosion kills 25
Twenty-five miners are killed and four are missing after the worst US mining disaster for more than a quarter of a century.
Barrier Reef route 'outrageous'
Australia's PM Kevin Rudd says it is "outrageous" that a Chinese ship leaking oil near the Great Barrier Reef was off course.
L'Aquila marks quake anniversary
(BBC) The Italian city of L'Aquila is marking the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed 300 and left 60,000 homeless.
WikiLeaks posts video from Iraq
(BBC) The website WikiLeaks posts a video it says shows the 2007 killing by US military personnel of civilians in Baghdad.
Sudan, Darfur rebels exchange blame over ceasefire
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's government and Darfur's most powerful rebel force accused each other of breaking a recently-signed ceasefire Monday, undermining already stalled peace talks between both sides.
Nato admits killing Afghan women
(BBC) Nato admits its forces were responsible for the deaths of three women during a botched raid in Afghanistan in February.
Army retakes airport after clash in north Congo
KINSHASA (Reuters) - U.N.-backed government forces retook a Congolese provincial airport from rebels on Monday, an army officer said, following heavy fighting since Sunday in which two U.N. workers and several soldiers and police died.
Thai "Red Shirts" pledge more protests after court ruling
BANGKOK - Jubilant red-shirted Thai protesters vowed Monday to keep up their efforts to overthrow the government after a court declined to issue a legal order to evict them from Bangkok's tourist hub.
Militant attacks kill 43 in Pakistan, US consulate hit
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Islamist militants armed with guns and suicide vests targeted the US consulate in Pakistan's northwestern capital on Monday and unleashed carnage at a political rally, killing 43 people.
SUDAN: Saving animals to save lives - IRINnews.org
SUDAN: Saving animals to save lives IRINnews.org MALAKAL, 5 April 2010 (IRIN) - As a region still recovering from years of brutal civil war and battling inter-ethnic clashes and food insecurity, ... |
Family support for elderly under strain in Asia
SINGAPORE : Asia's tradition of supporting elderly parents is under strain as waning filial piety, rising individualism and a change in attitudes towards marriage force the aged to seek support elsewhere, experts said Monday.
April 4, 2010
All fired up
(BBC) Ex-child soldier's life in Sudan in sound and pictures
Strong quake shakes cities around U.S.-Mexico border
MEXICALI, Mexico (Reuters) - Roads were torn up, buildings cracked and electricity posts toppled on Monday after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook cities in northern Mexico and Southern California, but few casualties were reported.
Suicide bomber kills two policemen in Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two policemen and wounded a third near the police headquarters of a town in Russia's North Caucasus region of Ingushetia on Monday, officials said.
Stranded Chinese ship threatens Great Barrier Reef
SYDNEY: A badly damaged Chinese coal carrier stranded on Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef was Monday threatening to break up and spill more oil into pristine waters teeming with marine life.
War still raging for South Korean POWs in North
SEOUL (Reuters) - Somewhere in North Korea, more than 500 South Korean prisoners of war have been held for more than half a century, all but certain to spend their final days in the secretive state without a chance of ever returning home.
Cuba says no giving in to dissident "blackmail"
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro rejected U.S. and European pressure over political prisoners on Sunday and said Guillermo Farinas, on a hunger strike for 40 days, and his supporters would be responsible if the prominent Cuban dissident dies.
Afghanistan seeks arrest of ex-minister over graft
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has asked Interpol to seek the arrest of a former acting cabinet minister accused of corruption and believed to be living in Britain, an official said on Sunday, a rare bid to prosecute graft as demanded by the West.
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