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Gunshots heard in violence-wracked Nigerian town JOS, Nigeria -- Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city located near villages where massacres just two days ago left more than 200 people dead. Nerves remained on edge, despite a long-standing dusk-til-dawn curfew in Jos, the capital of Plateau state. When sustained gunfire rang out for about three minutes, apparently from several automatic rifles, people ran screaming through the streets. More than 100... Click here for more details. |
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Historic Women's Bill passes amid chaos New Delhi: After unprecedented disruptions and high drama, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening finally passed the historic Women's Reservation Bill reserving one-third seats for women in Parliament and state Legislatures. The Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Left Front voted for the bill. The two MPs of the Trinamool Congress, the government's second biggest ally, abstained from voting. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley, Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) Brinda Karat, Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) Satish... Click here for more details. |
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Some Iraq Results Coming Wednesday BAGHDAD — Iraq’s electoral commission said Tuesday that it would announce partial results of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, providing an incomplete picture of the vote that will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape. Related At War Blog: Election Reaction From Around Iraq Party officials have acknowledged that a relatively small number of seats may separate Iraq’s leading coalitions, a sign that negotiations to form a new government could be protracted. Although the lists of candidates led by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister, appear to be polling best, officials with a... Click here for more details. |
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Israel approves East Jerusalem homes as Biden visits Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Speaking earlier, Joe Biden said Washington had a total commitment to Israel's security Israel has approved the building of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, in a move that threatens to overshadow US Vice-President Joe Biden's visit. The move will infuriate Palestinians, whose leaders have only recently agreed to resume contacts with Israel - at Mr Biden's urging. It is also likely to be embarrass the Obama administration, given its timing. The international community considers East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967, to be occupied territory. Building on occupied land is illegal under international law, but Israel regards East... Click here for more details. |
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Robert Gates warns of 'hard Afghan fight ahead' US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that "hard fighting" lies ahead, in his first visit to Afghanistan since the launch of a major offensive there. After meeting military chiefs overseeing the anti-Taliban operation in southern Helmand province, Mr Gates also said some progress had been made. Preparations have already begun to secure control of neighbouring Kandahar... Click here for more details. |
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US and Russia resume nuclear talks US and Russian negotiators are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate a treaty aimed at reducing their nuclear weapons arsenals. The two powers are hoping to find a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expired last December. "The two sides are committed to concluding negotiations. What is important is that we arrive at a quality agreement," a US spokesman told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday. Barack Obama, the US president, and Dmitry Medvedev, his Russian counterpart, agreed last July that the successor treaty must... Click here for more details. |
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Biden urges Israel to take risks for peace JERUSALEM (AP) ? Vice President Joseph Biden has told Israel that the U.S. is willing to stand by those who will "take risks for peace." Biden also told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that he was confident Israel was prepared to take such risks. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israelis and Palestinians face a "moment of real opportunity" to make peace after agreeing to resume American-brokered talks, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he launched the highest-level visit by an Obama administration official to Israel. Monday's announcement of indirect talks, which will be... Click here for more details. |
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Burma publishes new election laws Burma's military junta revealed the details of its new election laws today, paving the way for the country's first polls since 1990. However the government indicated it would pick all members of the country's new election commission itself and retained the right to cancel elections of separate constituencies for 'security' reasons. The country's rulers approved five new... Click here for more details. |
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Bangladesh 'ignoring plight' of starving Burma refugees An American medical charity has warned that thousands of Burmese refugees in Bangladesh are facing starvation. Physicians for Human Rights said government authorities are preventing the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, from receiving adequate care. It accuses Bangladesh of obstructing efforts to help the Rohingya, who have fled Burma to escape persecution. The government has dismissed the allegations as it did similar reports by MSF last month. Aid blocks The new report by the Physicians... Click here for more details. |
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Nigeria cracks down after attacks Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with attacks near the central city of Jos that killed more than 500 people. Police and soldiers surrounded the village of Dogo Nahawa, about 15km south of Jos, as survivors buried the dead in mass graves on Monday. Residents said herders from nearby hills attacked their village at about 3am (02:00GMT) on Sunday, shooting into the air before using machetes to cut down those who came out of their homes. At least two other villages nearby were also targeted in an area close to where sectarian clashes killed hundreds of people in January. Dan Manjang, an adviser to the government of Plateau... Click here for more details. |
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Togo Police Seal Off Opposition Headquarters LOMÉ, Togo (AP) — Anti-riot police officers on Monday sealed off the alleyways leading to the headquarters of Togo’s largest opposition party, stranding the country’s opposition leader outside for more than an hour in a tense standoff after a contentious election. The opposition leader, Jean-Pierre Fabre, has vowed to take to the streets every day to protest what he says was a fraudulent election. Mr. Fabre said he would stop only when the police had exhausted their stock of tear gas or had killed him. His party, the Union for the Forces of Change, said it planned to go ahead with a march on Tuesday even though the government had indicated that it would not approve... Click here for more details. |
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American Freed From Haitian Jail PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of two Americans still being held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released Monday, but the leader of the group remained in custody. The American, Charisa Coulter, 24, was taken from her cell to the airport by staff members of the American Embassy more than a month after she and nine other Americans from a Baptist group were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without permission after the earthquake. Ms. Coulter declined to comment as she quickly got into the embassy vehicle. The leader of the Baptist group, Laura Silsby, said she was glad that Ms. Coulter has been released. “I’m very happy that she left today, and for her... Click here for more details. |
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Hafiz Saeed spews venom against India NEW DELHI: A day after India slammed Pakistan on Hafiz Saeed, the Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, was back to spewing venom against India. Addressing yet another public rally in Lahore, Saeed accused India of waging... Click here for more details. |
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Maliki leads in Iraqi poll count By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - Early indications from Sunday's parliamentary elections in Iraq favor Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his State of Law Coalition, although official results for the 325-seat parliament will not be known until Wednesday. These are the second national polls since the downfall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Amid tight security and a ballot marred by terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 38 people, 70% of voters turned out in Baghdad, while there was a 50% increase in voting in Sunni districts such as al-Anbar province. More than 120 international monitors oversaw the polls, in which 6,000 candidates representing 86 political parties campaigned. Maliki seems to be... Click here for more details. |
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India wants to give women 1/3 of legislative seats NEW DELHI — India's government introduced a bill to parliament Monday that would reserve one-third of the legislature's seats for women, angering socialist lawmakers who tore up papers and tried to tear out microphones. The protests stalled debate and voting on the proposal until at least Tuesday. The bill has faced strong opposition since it was first proposed more than a decade ago, with many political leaders... Click here for more details. |
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Iraqi PM's Coalition Seen Leading Vote Filed at 9:21 a.m. ET BAGHDAD (AP) -- Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties predict a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will take the lead in the parliamentary race. Iraq's election commission said Monday it will be days until official results are released, probably on Thursday. But Abbas al-Bayati from al-Maliki's State of Law coalition said early information from the coalition's representatives showed the list did well in Baghdad as well as the Shiite south. Members of the other major Shiite bloc said they did not do as well as they expected. By all accounts, a small number of seats are expected to separate the first and second place coalitions. THIS IS A BREAKING... Click here for more details. |
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Biden Arrives in Israel on Trip to Restart Peace Talks JERUSALEM — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in Israel on Monday, culminating a two-month procession of high-ranking Americans seeking to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and persuade Israel to help efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program rather than pursue military action. Related Times Topic: Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Biden is due to stay through Friday, meeting Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders and giving a speech at Tel Aviv University aimed at expressing American solidarity with Israel. His visit is likely to coincide with the start of indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, brokered by George J. Mitchell, the... Click here for more details. |
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Troops face hard fight, Gates warns on Kabul visit KABUL (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates held talks in Kabul on Monday, warning of "hard fighting" ahead as his ground commander said NATO could take on the Taliban in their spiritual capital this summer. "There is no doubt there are positive developments going on, but I would say it's very early yet," Gates told reporters on his plane before landing in the Afghan capital in order to review US-led efforts to beat back the Taliban. He cautioned that there would be "some very hard fighting, very hard days ahead" as US, NATO and Afghan forces step up pressure on Taliban militants in the south under a last-ditch strategy designed to end the war.... Click here for more details. |
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Indonesia most corrupt of key Asian nations SINGAPORE - Indonesia, one of the star emerging markets over the past year, was rated the most corrupt of 16 major Asia-Pacific investment destinations in a business survey released on Monday. With corruption rampant at all levels,... Click here for more details. |
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Sarkozy urges global expansion of nuclear energy By GREG KELLER and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press Writers PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday urged developing countries to embrace nuclear energy and rich lenders to help pay for it, but stood firmly against countries that "cheat" and use the technology to make weapons. "We need nuclear energy" to meet global goals for fighting and slowing climate change, Sarkozy said in opening an international conference in Paris on the future of nuclear power. He wants France, which is reliant on atomic reactors for a large majority of its... Click here for more details. |
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