The United Nations is seeking $1.6 billion from donors to help millions of drought victims in the Horn of Africa. U.N. officials say a donors conference will be held Wednesday in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as the world body races to get life-saving aid to more than 11 million people in need. The donors conference was […]
UN Sets Donors Conference for Horn of Africa Drought
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
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New Sanctions Against Global Organized Crime
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:50 pm (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama on Monday announced new sanctions against four of the world’s largest criminal organizations. The organizations targeted are Italy’s Camorra, the Japanese Yakuza, the Los Zetas from Mexico and the Brother’s Circle, based in the former Soviet Union. The executive order freezes all property belonging to the groups in the U.S., and bars […]
IMF Urges Swift Action on US Debt Dispute
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:50 pm (UTC-5)
As U.S. lawmakers and President Barack Obama haggle over plans to cut Washington’s massive debt, the International Monetary Fund says the United States must take urgent and effective action on the issue. Monday, the newest IMF report on the U.S. economy said it is critical to the U.S. and other economies for Washington to promptly […]
Libya Claims NATO Strikes Hospital
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:35 pm (UTC-5)
The Libyan government has accused NATO of bombing a hospital during an air raid, killing seven people. Libyan officials on Monday showed journalists a destroyed clinic in the town of Zlitan, east of the capital, Tripoli. The officials also took journalists to food warehouses in the town and said these buildings were damaged by airstrikes […]
South Sudan Accuses Khartoum of ‘Economic War’
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:25 pm (UTC-5)
South Sudan has accused Sudan of launching an “economic war” less than three weeks after the two countries split. South Sudan’s top negotiator, Pagan Amum, said Monday that Khartoum is demanding a fee of nearly $23 per barrel to transport oil through its pipelines. He called the fee “daylight robbery.” Amum also accused Sudan of […]
Philippine President Again Warns China on Maritime Claims
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:25 pm (UTC-5)
Philippine President Benigno Aquino has again warned that his country is ready to defend its claims to disputed territory in the South China Sea. Speaking Monday in a national address, Mr. Aquino said his government is ready to acquire more weapons and to press its claims to territory in the Spratly Islands chain to a […]
US Stocks Mostly Down
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:20 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. stock market indexes were mostly down in Monday’s midday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated three-tenths of a percent, the S&P 500 fell two-tenths of a percent but the NASDAQ was unchanged. European stock markets were mixed at the close of trading. London’s Financial Times 100 index lost two-tenths of a percent to […]
Police Lower Death Toll in Norway Attacks to 76
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 1:05 pm (UTC-5)
Norwegian police have revised their casualty figures for a mass shooting and bomb attack last Friday, lowering the number of people killed to 76. Police say a gunman killed 68 people on Utoeya Island, where hundreds of young people had gathered for a summer camp organized by the ruling Labor Party. Officials say the previous […]
Police Lower Death Toll in Norway Attacks to 76
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 12:45 pm (UTC-5)
Norwegian police have revised their casualty figures for a mass shooting and bomb attack last Friday, lowering the number of people killed to 76. Police say a gunman killed 68 people on Utoeya Island, where hundreds of young people had gathered for a summer camp organized by the ruling Labor Party. Officials say the previous […]
India to Set Up Environmental Regulatory Body
Posted July 25th, 2011 at 12:45 pm (UTC-5)
India will set up a new environmental regulatory agency to review investment projects, as the government struggles to balance industrial growth with ecological protection. In announcing the planned National Environment Appraisal and Monitoring Authority , Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it is not acceptable to expect “a certain degree of environmental degradation and over-exploitation of […]
