Protests sweep through Senegal after poll ruling
The Star
The Star
DAKAR (Reuters) - Street protests spread through towns across Senegal overnight on Saturday after a top legal body said President Abdoulaye Wade had the right to run for a third term in elections next month. Local television said one policeman died from head injuries after clashes in the capital...
UN considers resolution on Syria
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
European and Arab nations have pressed for UN Security Council backing for an Arab League plan calling on Syria's president to stand down, but Russia said their proposed resolution crossed its "red lines". Morocco presented a draft resolution to the 15-nation Security Council, drawn up by...
Nigeria faces an existential threat
Gulf News
Gulf News
London: Nigeria is up against a hydra-headed monster in the Boko Haram sect that claimed responsibility for last Friday's devastating attacks on the city of Kano. The group began its existence in relative obscurity, in Nigeria's remote and least developed region in the north-east, staging...
One million children in Sahel at risk, UNICEF warns
The Star
The Star
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 1 million children in the Sahel are at risk of severe malnutrition and urgent action is needed to avert starvation akin to that in Somalia, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday. The agency appealed for $67 million for 8 countries in the region...
Shiites in Firing Line as Dozens Killed at Iraq Funeral March
Jakarta Globe
Jakarta Globe
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people in the latest brazen attack since the US troop withdrawal, officials said. Police officials said the blast occurred at about 11 a.m. in the predominantly Shiite...
Doctors Without Borders halts work in Misrata
Zeenews
Zeenews
Benghazi: Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation, the group said on Thursday. The announcement was compounded by a...
US military to cut troop numbers, invest in future
Jakarta Globe
Jakarta Globe
The Pentagon proposed taking some 100,000 troops off active duty as the debt-ridden United States winds down a decade of war, but vowed new investments to exert power in Asia and the Middle East. With pressure mounting to balance the US books, President Barack Obama's administration sought a 13...
Jonathan urges Boko Haram to state demands
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged Boko Haram to identify themselves and state clearly their demands as a basis for talks. "If they clearly identify themselves now and say this is the reason why we are resisting, this is the reason why we are confronting government or this is the...
The 'Malaise' of Hope
WorldNews.com
WorldNews.com
Before Dante Alighieri descended into hell in the "Divine Comedy," an inscription above the door read: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here. Listening to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address (SOTU), this is sadly what I was reminded of. For someone who campaigned on the "audacity of...
Papua New Guinea rebel soldiers demand return of former PM
The Star
The Star
(Reuters) - The leader of a small band of soldiers who mutinied in Papua New Guinea on Thursday demanded the governor-general reinstate former Prime Minister Michael Somare and set a seven-day deadline for lawmakers to resolve a constitutional crisis. The resource-rich Pacific Island nation has been...
Merkel demands closer EU links to avoid financial meltdown
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mail
Angela Merkel has called Europe the world’s economic ‘headache’ and demanded closer ties between eurozone nations to avoid financial meltdown. The German leader told the World Economic Forum in Davos that a ‘big rethink’ was needed – but Mr Cameron will today...
Detainees held by Libya rebels still tortured: U.N.
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Detainees from Libya's civil war held by revolutionary brigades continue to be subjected to torture despite efforts by the provisional government to address the issue, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. Navi Pillay told the U.N. Security Council she was...
Iraq al-Qaida says US withdrew to save funds
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida in Iraq says the U.S. pulled its troops out because its economy is collapsing and it needed to save money. The message posted on its website Wednesday is al-Qaida's first online comment since the U.S. completed its pullout last month, ending a nine-year conflict. Al-Qaida in...
