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BAGHDAD — Preliminary election results indicate that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s slate won two southern provinces in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Iraqi officials said Thursday, as they contended with continued allegations of fraud and complaints about disqualified candidates.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki posted mixed results in initial returns on Thursday from Iraq’s parliamentary election, and a rival grouping complained of serious fraud.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source familiar with the process said on Thursday.
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New York City officials have agreed to pay up to $657.5m (£437m) to thousands of rescue and clean-up workers at the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 attacks.
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BEIJING (AFP) –
China on Friday hit back at an attack from US President Barack Obama over currency policy, saying the yuan’s value was not a political one and was not the key to global trade imbalances.
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AP – Chile’s newly inaugurated President Sebastian Pinera, waves the the crowds after his swearing-in ceremony …
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A prostitution ring linked to alleged corruption in the awarding of contracts for the G8 summit in Italy involved as many as 350 women, investigating magistrates said yesterday.
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Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine argued that, under
the 321-year-old Bill of Rights, they could be judged only by the House
of Commons.
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and […]
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.)
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From Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses by Mark Twain:
The conversations in the Cooper books have a curious sound in our modern ears. To believe that such talk really ever came out of people’s mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had […]
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7:46pm UK, Thursday March 11, 2010
Mark Langford, Sky News Online
Chile’s new president urged people to rush to higher ground as a 7.2 earthquake rattled the country during his inauguration.
Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president as powerful aftershocks hit Chile
A series of aftershocks have rocked the country since a massive tremor killed nearly 500 people […]
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WENN
The Prodigy have been confirmed to headline this year’s Bestival.
The band will close the Isle of Wight event, which takes place between September 9 and September 12.
The ‘Warrior’s Dance’ collective join a bill that already includes Roxy Music, LCD Soundsystem, The Flaming Lips and Dizzee Rascal.
The Wailers and Wild Beasts have also been announced to […]
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Thousands of people marched through Athens Thursday as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest further austerity measures by the embattled government.
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AP file photo Rush and Rummy: The then-Defense Secretary meets with a maybe-soon-to-be expatriate. Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has promised to leave the United States if the Democratic…
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private […]
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NIGERIA
Riots flare between Muslims, Christians
Rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people overnight Sunday as religious violence flared anew between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria, witnesses said. Hundreds of people fled their homes, fearing reprisal attacks.
The bodies of the dead, including many women and children, lined dusty streets in three mostly Christian villages […]
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PAKISTAN
6 killed in attack on U.S aid group
Suspected militants armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani employees, the organization and police said.
The attack prompted World Vision, a major international humanitarian group, to suspend its […]
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Haitian President René Préval pleaded Wednesday for U.S. help plugging a multimillion-dollar budget gap caused by the Jan. 12 earthquake but said he got a cool reception from congressional leaders wary of handing over cash.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist […]