134 people killed in clashes in Sudan's Darfur:
"Yesterday's
clashes killed 108 from the Salamat and 26 from us," Kheiri told
Reuters. "The clashes lasted from 3 am until 6 pm," he added, without
giving more details.
Nigeria: 12 killed in blasts in Kano's Christian area:
Multiple
explosions that blasted a bar and entertainment area in a Christian
quarter of Nigeria's northern and mainly Muslim city of Kano killed at
least 12 people, the military said Tuesday.
Gunmen kill 8 Tunisian troops as political tensions grow:
President
Moncef Marzouki called the ambush on Mount Chaambi, near the Algerian
border, a "terrorist attack" and announced three days of mourning.
Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist militants in
the remote region since December.
Tunisia's prime minister refuses to step down:
Prime
Minister Ali Larayedh's fiery speech, in which he called those wanting
to dissolve the government "anarchists" and "opportunists," is
unlikely to appease an angry opposition that says the Islamist-led
government has failed to carry out the political transition promised
after the overthrow of Tunisia's dictator in January 2011.
Dozen bombs defused outside luxury Tripoli hotel:
Libyan
security forces on Tuesday defused a dozen bombs that had been placed
inside a car that was parked outside a luxury hotel in the capital, the
interior ministry said.
Egypt: Despite dozens of deaths, Muslim Brotherhood finds little sympathy at home or abroad:
The
group is deeply, deeply isolated. Its members are increasingly
targeted by state violence that they have little power to resist,
leaving them at the mercy of a military and state security service that
has long loathed them.
Clashes leave 12 houses torched in Cairo's Ezbet Abu-Hashish:
Conflicting reports emerge on how clashes broke out in Cairo's Ezbet Abu-Hashish working-class neighbourhood late Sunday
EU envoy says Morsi 'well' after meeting:
Catherine
Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, said Egypt's deposed
president Mohamed Morsi was "well" after meeting him for two hours, his
first known contact with the outside world since he was toppled by the
army earlier this month.
Egypt restores feared secret police units:
Military-backed government seems to have no intent of reforming practices that characterised both Mubarak and Morsi eras
Jihadists fire 'US-made ballistic missile' at Sinai security HQ:
Jihadists
attacked the Egyptian security headquarters in northern Sinai
ostensibly using an American-made ballistic missile, Egypt's interior
ministry said early Monday morning.
Blair Legacy Continues As
Around 70 killed in fresh Iraq violence:
Attacks
mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Iraq killed at least 57
people on Monday, and security forces killed 10 militants, officials
said, as the interior ministry warned of civil war.
Assad's forces kill 12 rebels taking flour from mill - activist:
"The
Free Syrian Army took over the flour mill after a battle that lasted
several hours, but the regime's forces shelled the area and hit it from
the air as the fighters were transporting the flour out of the mill,"
activist Abu Kassem al-Shabawi said from the area.
Air raids 'kill 11 children in Syria's Aleppo, Homs':
Seven
children in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo and another four in
Homs in the centre were among 17 civilians killed in air raids on
Tuesday, a watchdog said.
Syrian Soldiers Executed By Rebels -
Video - Warning -
FSA & Jabhat al-Nusra Public Execution Al-Hasakah :
Video - Warning -
How a Syrian rebel stronghold fell into regime hands:
Syrian
Army soldiers have won control of the Khalidiya district in Homs,
crushing one of the last rebel bastions in the central city that sits
on the route linking Damascus with the coastal heartland of President
Assad's Alawite sect.
SNC leader tells Al Arabiya Geneva II conference can end Syria war: Video -
In
an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya, Ahmed Jarba, the new president
of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), said he expects the Geneva II
conference to take place, adding that the U.N.-backed meeting and the
formation of a transitional government can lead to the fall of the
Syrian regime.
US kills another 3 people in Yemen:
The
official said the attack took place early Tuesday in the town of Saeed
in Shabwa province and targeted a car carrying the suspected
militants. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line
with regulations, gave no further details.
Israelis and Palestinians open talks:
The
two sides have agreed to continue talking for at least nine months, a
State Department official said. "We're going to make every effort to
reach an agreement within that time frame, but... if we're making
progress and we're continuing to make progress, this is not a
deadline," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Pakistan elects new president as Taliban attack on prison kills 14, frees 250 inmates:
The
fighters freed more than 250 prisoners, including 38 suspected
militants, and killed 14 people, including guards and Shiite Muslim
prisoners, officials said.
Pakistan: Four armed suspects killed in Quetta:
Acting
on a tip-off about the presence of an armed group in Eastern Bypass
area, the law enforcement agencies (LEA) launched an operation, killing
four armed suspects, official sources claimed.
Afghanistan: Taliban district chief among 4 killed in Konduz operation:
A
Taliban named district chief and three of his subordinates were killed
and 29 others arrested during a security forces operation in
northwestern province of Konduz, an official said Monday.
Bradley Manning guilty of espionage in Wikileaks case:
Pte Manning, 25, has been found guilty of 20 charges in total.
European Parliamentarians call on President Obama to free Bradley Manning:
Open Letter from Members of the European Parliament to President Barack Obama and US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
Report: New Zealand military collected data on phone calls of McClatchy contributor: -
New
Zealand's defense minister said Monday that an investigation is
underway into a report that U.S. intelligence agencies helped his
nation's military track the mobile telephone calls of a freelance
journalist while he worked for McClatchy Newspapers in Afghanistan.
US developing Mind Reading: Video:
The
US government is pouring money into a technology called fMRI,
functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures changes in
localized brain activity over time by watching blood flow. And it can
now be used to infer information about our memories. It can tell things
like what we have actually seen or experienced.
Guns in school: Ark. district arming more than 20 teachers, staff:
Dougan
is among more than 20 teachers, administrators and other school
employees who will carry concealed weapons throughout the school day,
making use of a little-known Arkansas law that allows licensed, armed
security guards on campus.
Myrtle Beach judge rules citizens can't feed homeless in public park:
Hopkins
said, as a Quaker, he felt compelled to follow the teachings of Jesus
Christ, who taught his disciples to help those less fortunate.
Obama Admin. Deported More Than 13,000 Unaccompanied Mexican Children in 2012;
And,
when it comes to deportation court hearings, it is not unusual for a
toddler or a 6-year-old to appear in front of the judge without a
lawyer.
JPMorgan Accused of Energy-Market Manipulation by U.S. Agency:
JPMorgan
Chase & Co. (JPM) manipulated power markets in California and the
Midwest from September 2010 to June 2011, obtaining tens of millions of
dollars in overpayments from grid operators, the U.S. Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission alleged today.
The 25 largest Banks in the world:
The largest "private" American bank ranks 8th
US fast food workers walk out in organised strike against low wages:
New York City-based campaign spreads around the country as workers unite to demand minimum $15 per hour wage
41% of Nation's Poor Are White, Nearly Double the Number of Poor Blacks:
As
the bottom continues to fall out of the economy, and good middle class
jobs are replaced with low wage jobs, one of the most striking
demographic changes is the growing number of whites who've fallen into
poverty or are in danger of falling below the poverty line:
Audit reveals USDA paid out millions to dead farmers:
The
U.S. Agriculture Department paid out $32 million in soil conservation
payments and crop insurance aid to dead farmers from 2008 to 2012,
congressional auditors said on Monday, calling for stricter rules to
prevent improper payments.
