Afghan officials say a female provincial government worker has been gunned down outside her home in the southern city of Kandahar. A government spokesman says the woman, Rabia Sadat, was shot and killed by a gunman on a motorcycle as she walked to her car on Tuesday morning. Her driver was wounded in the attack. […]
Female Afghan Government Worker Gunned Down in South
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 9:00 am (UTC-5)
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Death Toll Mounts As Syria Pounds Coastal City
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 8:40 am (UTC-5)
Syrian security forces are pounding the port city of Latakia for a fourth straight day as part of the government’s widening crackdown on dissent. Activists and residents say at least five people were killed Tuesday in Latakia. They say security forces have killed at least 35 people in the city since Saturday. A U.N. agency […]
Israel Arrests Al-Jazeera Journalist
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 8:35 am (UTC-5)
Al-Jazeera says Israel has arrested its Kabul bureau chief, who was visiting his hometown in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The station’s Arabic-language network says Israel detained Samer Allawi on August 10 as he was trying to cross into Jordan. He had been vacationing in the Palestinian village of Sebastia prior to his arrest. The journalist’s […]
UN Rights Investigator to Visit Burma Next Week
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 7:55 am (UTC-5)
A United Nations investigator says he will travel to Burma next week to evaluate progress on human rights since a nominally civilian government took office this year. Tomas Quintana told VOA’s Burmese service Tuesday that the details of his trip are not complete but that his main objective is to assess the human rights situation […]
UN Rights Investigator to Visit Burma Next Week
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 7:45 am (UTC-5)
A United Nations investigator says he will travel to Burma next week to evaluate progress on human rights since a nominally civilian government took office this year. Tomas Quintana told VOA’s Burmese service Tuesday that the details of his trip are not complete but that his main objective is to assess the human rights situation […]
European Markets Lower at Midday
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 7:25 am (UTC-5)
European stock markets were lower in midday trading Tuesday. London’s Financial Times 100 index was down one and a quarter percent at 5,285. The CAC-40 in Paris was down more than one and a half percent to 3,186. And the DAX in Frankfurt was down two and a half percent at 5,869. The S&P futures […]
British Teenager Charged with Murder in London Riots
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 7:10 am (UTC-5)
A British teenager will appear in court Tuesday after being charged with murdering a man during the wave of riots that swept the country last week. The boy, 16 years old, is charged with the death of Richard Bowes, a 68-year-old retiree who died of head injuries last Thursday after being attacked by rioters in […]
Asian Markets Close Mostly Lower
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 6:55 am (UTC-5)
Asian markets closed mostly lower Tuesday. Tokyo’s Nikkei index gained two-tenths of one percent to close at 9,107. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost a quarter of one percent to end at 20,212. Elsewhere, markets were higher in Manila, Wellington and Seoul. The markets in Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mumbai, Taipei, Shanghai and Sydney […]
Ex-Zimbabwean Military Chief Dies
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 6:50 am (UTC-5)
General Solomon Mujuru, Zimbabwe’s retired military chief and husband of the current vice president, has died at his farm outside Harare. Initial reports say Mujuru, who was in his mid-to-late 60s, was killed in a house fire. Mujuru led the guerrilla war that won Zimbabwe its independence from Britain in 1980, and served as military […]
83 Candidates to Run for Kyrgyzstan Presidential Election
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 6:35 am (UTC-5)
Kyrgyzstan’s Central Election Commission says 83 people have registered to run in the country’s presidential election at the end of October. The commission said Tuesday that 16 candidates received nominations from political parties and 67 are running as independents. The candidates are now required to collect at least 30,000 signatures, submit an electoral deposit of […]
