Thursday, November 28, 2013

World News Headlines..Thursday 28th November 2013

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…

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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…

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