Union leaders in Botswana say public workers have suspended an eight-week strike and will return to work on Monday. Workers have not reached an agreement with the government but officials from the Botswana Federation of Public Service Unions say they want to regroup and re-strategize. More than 90,000 public workers walked off the job April […]
Public Workers in Botswana Suspend Strike
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 10:25 am (UTC-5)
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Somali Pirates Free Kuwaiti Oil Tanker After Ransom
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 10:20 am (UTC-5)
Somali pirates are reported to have released a Kuwaiti oil tanker held since late March. A piracy watchdog group says the pirates were paid $12 million to release the ship. The 29-member crew is said to be doing okay. The MV Zirku was captured in the Gulf of Aden while sailing to Singapore from Sudan. […]
Egypt Backs Lagarde’s Bid for IMF Chief
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 10:15 am (UTC-5)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi has announced his country’s support of French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde’s bid to lead the International Monetary Fund. Arabi made the announcement Sunday in Cairo following meetings with Lagarde, who is in Egypt as part of a visit to the region to shore up support for her candidacy. The post […]
Anti-Terror Official Killed in Russia’s Caucasus
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 9:45 am (UTC-5)
An anti-terror official has been killed in a skirmish with militants in the restive southern Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Khasan Bogatyryov, deputy head of the regional interior ministry’s anti-extremism department, was killed Sunday during a military sweep in the town of Baksan. Russian troops have been battling Islamist insurgents for more than a decade in […]
Tanks, Helicopter Gunships Patrol Syria’s North
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 9:25 am (UTC-5)
Rights activists in Syria say troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships have launched a heavy assault on a northern city near the Turkish border, as nations across the globe are condemning the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters. Activists say the army attacked Jisr al-Shughour Sunday from two sides. Witnesses heard blasts as the army […]
Tanks, Helicopter Gunships Patrol Syria’s North
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 9:20 am (UTC-5)
Rights activists in Syria say troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships have launched a heavy assault on a northern city near the Turkish border, as nations across the globe are condemning the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters. Activists say the army attacked Jisr al-Shughour Sunday from two sides. Witnesses heard blasts as the army […]
Italians Begin Voting in Nuclear Referendum
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 9:20 am (UTC-5)
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government is being tested again as Italians cast votes in four referendums, including one that would end plans to restart the country’s nuclear energy program. The two-day referendums began Sunday. The most emotive issue concerns Mr Berlusconi’s plan to restart nuclear power plants, which he proposed last year but then […]
Photos of Wounded US Congresswoman Released
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 8:55 am (UTC-5)
The first photographs have been released of the U.S. congresswoman who was shot in the head in January at an outdoor political meeting. One photo shows Representative Garielle Giffords alone, smiling. In the second, she is seen with an unidentified woman. Giffords’ hair is cut short but there are few other signs of the gunshot […]
African Leaders Discuss Bigger Free Trade Zone
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 8:45 am (UTC-5)
African leaders have opened talks in Johannesburg on forming a 26-nation free trade bloc that would be the biggest on the continent. The proposed Grand Free Trade Area would join three existing trade blocs – the East African Community, the Southern African Development Community and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. The three […]
Libyan Forces Shell Rebels in West
Posted June 12th, 2011 at 8:15 am (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 western rebel-held town of Zintan say intense fighting Sunday caused damage without immediate report of casualties. In Zawiyah, 50 kilometers west of Tripoli, Libyan rebels […]
