(BBC) About 2,000 Bulgarians protest against Roma and what they see as links to organised crime, amid ethnic unrest ahead of presidential elections.
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October 1, 2011
Awlaki killing sparks US warning
(BBC) The US state department issues a travel alert to Americans worldwide after the killing of key al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
Hugo Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Syria
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday he was praying for Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against "Yankee" aggression.
NATO captures senior Haqqani commander in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO-led forces said on Saturday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.
Egypt military council offers concessions
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council said on Saturday it would consider ending military trials for civilians and setting a clearer timeline for the transition to civilian rule.
VIDEO: Wall St protest march on police
(BBC) Some 2,000 people have marched on Manhattan's main police station as part of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.
September 30, 2011
Islamist cleric killed in Yemen
(BBC) US-born suspected al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, whose death was said to have been personally ordered by President Obama, is killed by a US drone strike in Yemen, reports say.
Burma U-turn on controversial dam
(BBC) Burma's president halts work on a controversial, Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam which threatened to displace thousands of villagers on the Irrawaddy River.
SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Southern Kordofan refugees still vulnerable - IRINnews.org
SUDAN-SOUTH SUDAN: Southern Kordofan refugees still vulnerable IRINnews.org NAIROBI, 30 September 2011 (IRIN) - Thousands of people who fled insecurity in Sudan's Southern Kordofan State to neighbouring South Sudan's Unity State remain vulnerable, amid humanitarian access and security concerns, says the UN. ... |
Myanmar regime ready to work with Suu Kyi: minister
YANGON - Myanmar's government is ready to work with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party if it re-enters the official political arena, a minister said Friday after talks with the dissident.
Vietnam, China lashed by tropical storm
HANOI (Channel News Asia) - Thousands of people in Vietnam sheltered from a powerful tropical storm that lashed its northern coast on Friday after slamming into southeast China and killing 43 people in the Philippines.
BANGLADESH: Bureaucratic hitch leaves women farmers high and dry - IRINnews.org
BANGLADESH: Bureaucratic hitch leaves women farmers high and dry IRINnews.org DHAKA, 30 September 2011 (IRIN) - A significant number of women farmers in Bangladesh are unable to access fertilizer, cash assistance and other government subsidies intended for farmers, because the land they work is registered in their husband's name ... |
September 29, 2011
VIDEO: Nigeria and Benin try to combat pirates
(BBC) Nigeria and its West African neighbour Benin have begun joint naval patrols in an attempt to curb the rising threat of pirates.
Bahrain sentences protest medics
(bbc) A court in Bahrain jails 20 medics who treated protesters, while a protester accused of killing a policeman is sentenced to death.
Amnesty urges new Lithuania probe of CIA prisons
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania, which has said it hosted a secret detention facility for terror suspects, must re-open a criminal investigation into human rights abuses there, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.
Pro-Assad crowd stones U.S. envoy's convoy in Damascus
AMMAN (Reuters) - Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hurled rocks and tomatoes at U.S. ambassador Robert Ford's convoy as he visited an opposition figure in Damascus on Thursday and Syria accused Washington of inciting violence and meddling in its affairs.
Fracking gas test drill discussed
(BBC) An application to test drill for gas in the Vale of Glamorgan will be discussed by the county council's planning committee later.
Mexican court rules on abortion
(BBC) Mexico's Supreme Court upholds a law in the state of Baja California that states life begins at conception, in a decision hailed by anti-abortion campaigners.
Healthcare heads to Supreme Court
(BBC) The White House asks the Supreme Court to uphold its healthcare law, inviting a possible high-stakes legal showdown just before the 2012 election.
KENYA: Medics overwhelmed as dengue fever spreads - IRINnews.org
KENYA: Medics overwhelmed as dengue fever spreads IRINnews.org MANDERA, 29 September 2011 (IRIN) - An outbreak of dengue fever in Mandera, northeastern Kenya, is spreading fast, with at least 5000 people infected within weeks, due to limited health facilities, a shortage of medical personnel and poor sanitation, ... |
Damascus girls' school aloof from Syria unrest
What Damascus schoolgirls make of the protests
MEXICO: Food from Trees to Fight Malnutrition
The exceptionally nutritious moringa tree, native to the foothills of the Himalayas and cultivated in several Latin American countries, could help fight malnutrition in this region.
September 28, 2011
South Sudan's Most Vulnerable
At first sight, the village of Rokwe on the outskirts of Juba looks like any
other village in South Sudan. The sun shines bright on the grass roofs of the
mud huts and sounds from a church choir practising can be heard in the
distance. Only the scenery at the local health centre gives away that this is no
ordinary place.
JAPAN: New Radiation Limits Demanded for Children
The threat of radioactive contamination faced particularly by children after the
Mar. 11 nuclear disaster in Japan has touched the heart of the Japanese public,
and become a major political and social issue.
TIMOR-LESTE: Regulating land ownership "key to stability" - IRINnews.org
TIMOR-LESTE: Regulating land ownership "key to stability" IRINnews.org DILI, 29 September 2011 (IRIN) - Atoki Madeira says it started with threats and escalated into armed assaults. The 40-year-old Timorese NGO worker alleges the attacks stemmed from a dispute over a property she purchased in the Timorese capital, Dili, ... |
September 27, 2011
VIDEO: Beirut's beauty parlour for children
(BBC) In recent years the number of beauty parlours specifically for young girls has risen in the Lebanese capital.
VIDEO: One Spanish town's money worries
(BBC) The Spanish government has been trying to demonstrate that its economy is solvent but there are signs the situation in the country's regions could undermine efforts to cut the national deficit.
Faith groups in gay marriage call
(BBC) Five religious groups join together to back a campaign for same-sex marriages to be introduced in Scotland.
U.S., EU condemn Israeli plan to expand settlement
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel approved on Tuesday the construction of 1,100 settlement homes on annexed land in the West Bank, complicating global efforts to renew peace talks and defuse a crisis over a Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations.
Nigeria and Benin tackle piracy
(BBC) Nigeria and its West African neighbour, Benin, are to begin joint naval patrols to combat an increased number of piracy attacks in the Gulf of Guinea.
Brazil's World Cup rush fuels spending blowout
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - It is a project that should symbolize the transformational benefits of hosting the 2014 World Cup -- a sleek new monorail train gliding above Brazil's steamy Amazon city of Manaus.
September 26, 2011
Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Maathai dies
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has died in hospital after a long struggle with cancer, her environmental organization the Green Belt Movement said on Monday.
September 25, 2011
VIDEO: Rare glimpse of life in Damascus
(BBC) For six months Syria has been gripped by almost daily anti-regime protests and a heavily criticised crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad's army.
NUTRITION: Let agriculture "do no harm" - IRINnews.org
NUTRITION: Let agriculture "do no harm" IRINnews.org DAKAR, 26 September 2011 (IRIN) - Agriculture is about food production, but often projects ultimately hurt communities' health and nutrition. When the focus is tons and dollars, experts say, getting people the nutrients they need can be lost. ... |
SENEGAL: “Small revolution” in family planning - IRINnews.org
SENEGAL: “Small revolution” in family planning IRINnews.org DAKAR, 26 September 2011 (IRIN) - Talibouya Ka, Muslim leader (imam) of the Omar Kane mosque in the Medina neighbourhood of the Senegalese capital Dakar, encourages his followers to procreate as much as they can. “There are imams who are for family ... |
Delhi metro gets UN carbon points
(BBC) Delhi Metro becomes the world's first railway network to earn carbon credits from the United Nations for helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
IMF chief warns on crisis funding
The IMF warns it may not have enough money to bail out larger eurozone countries if the debt crisis were to spread.
Libya's NTC readies new push into Sirte
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fighters backing Libya's interim rulers prepared to renew their advance into the coastal city of Sirte on Monday after NATO aircraft bombed targets in Muammar Gaddafi's home town to sap the resistance of the deposed leader's troops.
Berlusconi rejects calls for him to quit, eyes reform
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday rejected opposition and lobby groups' calls for the government to resign over the country's economic woes and said the ruling center-right coalition was solid and would push on with reforms.
Saudi women given right to vote
JEDDAH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will allow women to stand for election and vote, the king announced on Sunday, in a significant policy shift in the conservative Islamic kingdom.
CANADA: Migrant Rights Tested by Most-Wanted List
Ottawa's clampdown on some of the country's worst criminal
offenders by creating a public most-wanted list netted its
most recent arrest only days ago, but the system has triggered
a debate over the publishing of fugitives' names and the
ethics and feasibility of changing Canadian immigration
policy.
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