Rwandan mayors to go on trial in France over 1994 genocide By: Agencies on May 9, 2016Two former Rwandan mayors go on trial in France on Tuesday facing charges of crimes against humanity and genocide over the 1994 massacres in the central African country. As the second trial in Paris by a special court created to go after suspected Rwandan killers who fled to France, it is expected to lay bare […]
Why Republican Never Trump crowd could vote Hillary By: By Keith Koffler on May 9, 2016With Donald Trump’s decisive win in the Indiana primary on Tuesday, most of the anti-Trump forces are crumbling, ready to acquiesce to the prospect that the Republican front-runner will win his party’s nomination. Yet even after Senator Ted Cruz of Texas suspended his campaign late Tuesday, a faction of conservatives refuses to make peace with […]
How a checklist can fix a slew of voting problems By: By Joshua A. Douglas on May 9, 2016Throughout the 2016 presidential primaries, voters trying to cast a ballot have faced significant hurdles on election day. Some Arizona voters, for example, waited up to five hours because of too few polling places and mistakes with voter registration. A few poll workers in North Carolina required nonwhite voters to show their IDs and then, […]
Scores held as Vietnam disperses fish death protestors By: Agencies on May 9, 2016Vietnamese police detained scores of people as they broke up a protest against a Taiwanese company accused of being behind a toxic leak that has caused mass fish deaths off the central coast. The protest in Hanoi, which follows a similar demonstration last weekend, was swiftly dispersed by authorities on Sunday morning, an AFP reporter […]
Crunch Eurozone talks on Greece debt deal By: Agencies on May 9, 2016Eurozone finance ministers hold an emergency meeting on Monday to try to thrash out a difficult deal on fresh reforms for Greece as fears grow of a repeat of last year’s chaotic bailout negotiations. The ministers from the 19 countries that use the euro — the Eurogroup — will also discuss debt relief for Greece, […]
Tough-talking Duterte likely beat rivals in Philippines election By: Agencies on May 9, 2016MANILA: The Philippines’ presidential race paused after weeks of campaigning that was embittered by the emergence of tough-talking mayor Rodrigo Duterte as the clear front-runner in opinion polls, making him the man to beat in Monday’s vote. Duterte’s promises of aggressive, even deadly, measures to wipe out crime have alarmed rivals, who warned at their […]
Thirty-four missing in China landslide: Xinhua By: Agencies on May 9, 2016Thirty-four people are missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rain hit a construction site in China’s southeastern Fujian province on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. About 100,000 cubic meters of mud and rocks flowed downhill in Taining county early on Sunday, burying a hydroelectric power station that was under construction there, Xinhua […]
Eight policemen killed in attack on outskirts of Cairo: Interior Ministry By: Agencies on May 9, 2016Unidentified gunmen killed eight policemen dressed in civilian clothes, including an officer, in an attack on a police vehicle in Helwan, just south of Cairo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said in a statement on its official Facebook page that four gunmen with automatic weapons got out of a small pick-up […]
Taliban attack ends lull in combat in Afghan province of Helmand By: Agencies on May 9, 2016LASHKAR GAH: Taliban insurgents attacked police checkpoints on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the main city of the southern Afghan province of Helmand early on Sunday, ending weeks of relative calm during the annual opium harvest. Helmand has been one of the main targets of the Taliban, which has forced government security forces to pull […]
North Koreas ruling party to give Kim Jong Un top title at congress By: Agencies on May 7, 2016PYONGYANG: North Korea’s ruling party is preparing to bestow its top title on leader Kim Jong Un, another sign that the third heir to North Korea’s dynasty of Kims is firmly in control despite his country’s deepening international isolation over one of his key ambitions, to keep developing more and better nuclear weapons. The state-run […]