Nearly complete results from Turkey’s parliamentary elections Sunday indicate an overwhelming victory for the country’s prime minister and his Islamic-rooted party, giving Recep Tayyip Erdogan a third straight term. Unofficial results have the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, securing around 50 percent. The opposition Republican People’s Party is trailing at about 26 percent, […]
Turkey’s Government Poised for Election Victory
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 3:10 pm (UTC-5)
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Iranian Police Clash with Protesters on Election Anniversary
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 2:50 pm (UTC-5)
Iran’s opposition says police in Tehran attacked and arrested protesters who were marking the two-year anniversary of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election. Opposition websites said Sunday hundreds of police wielding batons tried to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who took to the streets of the capital. The websites say police also ordered shops to close early […]
Secretive Bilderberg Meeting Held in Switzerland
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 2:45 pm (UTC-5)
Around 150 senior government officials and business executives are attending a secretive gathering known as the Bilderberg meetings at the Swiss resort of St. Moritz. The official website of the Bilderberg meetings says its annual conference ending Sunday mainly dealt with challenges for growth in Europe, the Middle East and China, with topics including the […]
Initial Results: Turkey’s Ruling Party on Course to Win Parliamentary Elections
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 1:50 pm (UTC-5)
Initial results from Turkey’s parliamentary elections Sunday indicate the country’s prime minister and his Islamic-rooted party are on course for a landslide victory, giving Recep Tayyip Erdogan a third straight term. With more than 84 percent of the vote counted, unofficial results have the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, securing around 51 percent. […]
Egypt Detains Israeli Man Suspected of Spying
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 1:50 pm (UTC-5)
Egypt has detained an Israeli man suspected of spying in Cairo and trying to provoke violence during the uprising that overthrew former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Officials said Sunday the Israeli entered Cairo around January 25 and posed as a foreign correspondent. The officials claim he is an officer with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. The […]
Clinton: Death of Embassy Bombing Suspect Big Blow to al-Qaida
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 1:20 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says al-Qaida has suffered another major blow with the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in east Africa. Somali officials announced Saturday that the al-Qaida operative was killed five days earlier at a Mogadishu checkpoint. Clinton, who is on a visit […]
Britain Says Eritrea Releases Four Detained Nationals
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 1:05 pm (UTC-5)
Britain says Eritrea has released four British nationals it accused of spying and kept in detention for five and a-half months. Britain’s Foreign Office said Sunday that the four men have been able to leave the east African country and will be reunited with their families. It thanked the government of Qatar for facilitating their […]
Initial Results: Turkey’s Ruling Party on Course to Win Parliamentary Elections
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 1:00 pm (UTC-5)
Initial results from Turkey’s parliamentary elections Sunday indicate the country’s prime minister and his Islamic-rooted party are on course for a solid victory, giving Recep Tayyip Erdogan a third straight term in power. With more than 43 percent of the vote counted, unofficial results have the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, securing about […]
Libyan Forces Shell Rebels in West
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 12:50 pm (UTC-5)
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have hammered rebels in the west with heavy weapons, as separate fighting creeps toward the capital, Tripoli. Reporters at the frontline near the rebel-held western town of Zintan say government forces launched rockets during intense fighting Sunday. Elsewhere, rebels say clashes killed at least six at Dafniya, just […]
Taliban Denies Involvement in Pakistan Bombings
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 12:25 pm (UTC-5)
The Taliban has denied responsibility for twin bombings at a crowded market in Pakistan’s Peshawar city that killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 100 others late Saturday. A Taliban spokesman (Ehsanullah Ehsan) called reporters Sunday in the North Waziristan tribal region to deny involvement. He said, “We do not target civilians and […]
