THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Member
states of the International Criminal Court amended its rules Wednesday to allow
defendants to appear via video link and allow suspects who hold high office to
miss parts of their trials, decisions likely to affect Kenya's president who is
due to go on trial in…
Associated
Press
Bitter divisions
between Somalia's top leaders threaten internationally-backed efforts to battle
Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents and end decades of anarchy in the war-torn nation,
experts warn. Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon, who has been in office for just
over a year, is facing a confidence vote…
AFP
By Adama Diarra and
Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's former junta chief, General Amadou
Sanogo, has been detained and charged with complicity in kidnapping after being
questioned by a judge on Wednesday, the government said on state television. Sanogo
was taken into custody by soldiers…
Reuters
By
Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's former junta chief,
General Amadou Sanogo, has been detained after being questioned by a judge on
Wednesday over what a senior judicial source said were accusations of post-coup
violence by the army and financial crimes. The source said…
Reuters
The 122 ICC states also eased other
conditions for key political figures facing charges amid mounting pressure from
African countries over trials involving the continent. Kenya's President Uhuru
Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto have pressed the ICC and the UN Security
Council to suspend…
AFP
Reuters
Blair denies
pressuring S.Africa to topple Mugabe
Former British prime minister Tony Blair denied Wednesday
putting pressure on South Africa while he was in office to help remove Zimbabwe
leader Robert Mugabe in a military operation. South Africa's ex-president Thabo
Mbeki claimed in an interview that Britain had urged it to topple Mugabe when
a…
AFP
AFP
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters)
- Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra breezed through a
no-confidence vote in parliament on Thursday as confusion emerged over the
goals of an anti-government protest movement massing at government offices.
Waving multi-colored flags,…
Reuters
By
Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) - When Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
swept to power in September's general election, his promise of a foreign policy
that was "more Jakarta than Geneva" raised hopes of a new era of
engagement with powerful Asian neighbors. Less than three months into the…
Reuters
By Maria Golovnina and
John Chalmers KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai's stubborn refusal to
sign a pact that would keep thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014
is a high-risk gamble that Washington will give in to his demands, one that has
left him isolated as the clock runs down…
Reuters
Ukraine Turmoil
Pits Russia-Friendly President Against Pro-Western Protesters
After a week of
protesting in the freezing cold, student Irina Bondar has completely lost her
voice, but not her determination. Ironically, she is responsible for dispensing
hot tea to a few thousand young protesters who are trying to force Ukraine’s
President Viktor Yanukovych to sign a trade…
Time.com
Another
Obamacare delay: How big a blow?
Small businesses
hoping to shop for health-insurance coverage at HealthCare.gov will now have to
wait until November 2014. The delay, announced Wednesday afternoon by the Obama
administration, is the second for the rollout of the SHOP Marketplace – or
Small Business Health Options Program – since…
Christian
Science Monitor
If sanctions
worked with Iran, will they work with 'rogue' nations?
Iran’s acceptance this
week of a deal to freeze much of its nuclear program for at least six months is
placing a new spotlight on economic sanctions as a tool for getting outlier
nations to “yes” on stopping activities the international community finds objectionable.
The unprecedented sanctions…
Christian
Science Monitor
Israel and U.S.
to Hold Military Exercises When Iran Deal Ends
Over the next six
months, while Washington and other world powers bend to the nitty-gritty of
rolling back Iran’s nuclear program through talks, Israel will likely continue
to dissent, while making conspicuous efforts to rehabilitate the military
threat that did so much to bring Tehran’s project…
Time.com
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Destroying Syria's deadliest chemical weapons on land would come with vexing
diplomatic and security problems as well as environmental issues. To avoid
those potential troubles, U.S. officials say, the Obama administration is
exploring the use of a government-owned ship to carry…
Associated
Press
Thai premier
pleas for end to protests
BANGKOK (AP) —
Thailand's prime minister begged protesters Thursday to call off their
sustained anti-government demonstrations and negotiate an end to the nation's
latest crisis.
Associated
Press
VILNIUS, Lithuania
(AP) — As leaders of the European Union gather for a summit discussing the
bloc's eastern expansion, a senior EU official admits that plans of closer ties
with Ukraine will be postponed for when Kiev is ready.
Associated
Press
MOSCOW (AP) — Criminal
charges were filed Thursday against Russia's former defense minister, who was
accused of using servicemen and government funds to build a road to a vacation
home and do landscaping work on the property.
Associated
Press
SAO
PAULO (AP) — With one thunderous crash, Brazil's troubled preparations for the
World Cup are thrown in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, just as soccer
gears up for the high-profile setting of the schedule for next year's big
event.
Associated
Press
Problems at stadiums
being built or renovated in Brazil for next year's World Cup and the 2016
Olympics:
Associated
Press
AFP
Over £5 billion of student loans made
from the public purse are unaccounted for, a watchdog said Thursday. The
National Audit Office (NAO) said that £5.3 billion was owed by around 368,000
people for whom there is no current employment record or other earnings
details. The total value of…
AFP
Siliana (Tunisia) (AFP) - Thirty-two
people were injured, nearly all of them Tunisian police, when a strike
degenerated into violence in the town of Siliana, southwest of the capital, a
hospital source said on Thursday. The violence erupted on Wednesday when
protesters clashed with police in…
AFP
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