PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): The majority of the member of the government of Haiti face a 25 per cent reduction in pay over their failure to file their assets in accordance to the law.
CAIRO (AP):Egypt's military sought to isolate pro-democracy activists protesting against their rule, depicting them as conspirators and vandals, as troops and protesters clashed for a third straight day, pelting each other with stones near parliament in the heart of the capital....
As she skis across Antarctica, Felicity Aston is taking on dangers, including crevasses, storms, injuries and frostbite. Her biggest challenge, though, has been adapting to solitude in the seemingly endless expanses of white....
LIMA (AP): Lawyers representing paroled American activist Lori Berenson say Peru's government abused its authority by barring her and her 31-month-old son from leaving the country to spend the holidays in New York City."Administratively, you can't block...
FORT MEADE, Md (AP): An intelligence officer who worked with the army intelligence analyst accused of giving US secrets to the WikiLeaks website said yesterday that the soldier was considered to have an especially high understanding of enemy threats...
As the first signs of an economic recovery make the news, many of the non-profit organisations in the United States are digging in for another three to four years of financial distress, according to researchers who keep an eye on the charitable world.
The United States is poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea this week, the first concrete accomplishment after months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic contacts between the two wartime enemies.
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel's political leaders and chief rabbis yesterday condemned persistent efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to shunt Israeli women to the back of public buses, a year after the country's Supreme Court outlawed the practice.
BAGHDAD (AP): Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops yesterday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display.
LIMA (AP): Lawyers representing paroled American activist Lori Berenson say Peru's government abused its authority by barring her and her 31-month-old son from leaving the country to spend the holidays in New York City.
Mere days after a trade union leader warned of imminent disruptions, the management of regional airline LIAT has assured its customers and the travelling public that it will continue to serve them during the busy Christmas season by maintaining its scheduled services.
Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States, John Boehner, said yesterday that he opposes a Senate-approved bill that extends a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months and said congressional bargainers need to write a new version that would last an entire year.
The nearly US$11-billion lawsuit Brazilian prosecutors filed last week against Chevron Corp over an offshore oil leak could scare away foreign capital needed to develop Brazil's huge offshore oil deposits, an analyst said last Friday.
VATICAN CITY (AP):Ukrainian pilgrims sang folk songs and carols and recalled the late Pope John Paul II's visit as the Vatican lit its Christmas tree in St Peter's Square, a 30-metre (100-foot) pine from the Carpathian mountains in their country.
BAGHDAD (AP):Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, United States (US) officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the...
ATLANTA (AP):They lived by the sword, both inspiring fear and acts of bloodshed around the world. And in the end, they both suffered violent deaths befitting their fearsome reputations.
The International Monetary Fund says that economic activity has recovered and programme implementation under the Extended Credit Facility arrangement in Haiti has been “broadly satisfactory."
SKOPJE (AP):Macedonian authorities said 29 people, including 17 police officers, have been arrested on allegations that they staged car accidents to collect on insurance claims....
SOFIA (AP):Bulgarian police are investigating a series of arson attacks on cars throughout the country over the past two weeks.Investigators say more than 40 vehicles have been torched since the beginning of this month, including five early...
BANDA ACEH, (AP): Police in Indonesia's most conservative province stripped away body piercings and buzzed off spiky mohawks from 65 youths detained at a punk-rock concert, because of their perceived threats to Islamic values....
