The oil-producing OPEC cartel has for the fourth straight month trimmed its estimate of world demand for oil for the rest of this year and in 2012. The 12-nation Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said Tuesday that the demand for oil will still grow this year and next, but not by as much as […]
New Report Redefines China’s Massive Migrant Workforce
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:55 am (UTC-5)
A new Hong Kong study says young people in China’s 200 million-strong migrant workforce are better educated, more knowledgeable than ever and willing to strike for better pay. The report Tuesday by the non-governmental China Labor Bulletin, which advocates for strengthening worker rights, also said that tens of millions of young rural Chinese migrants are […]
Moscow Calls Ukraine’s Sentencing of Tymoshenko ‘Anti-Russian’
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
Russia has criticized Ukraine for sentencing former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abusing power in relation to a gas deal she brokered between the two neighbors in 2009. In a ruling Tuesday, Ukrainian Judge Rodion Kireyev said Ms. Tymoshenko, now an opposition leader, exceeded her authority in signing the gas […]
Tymoshenko’s Jail Term Latest Setback in a Volatile Political Career
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
A Ukrainian court’s sentencing of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office on Tuesday is the latest setback to the volatile career of the country’s most prominent female politician. Born in 1960 in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ms. Tymoshenko entered the public spotlight in the mid-1990s as […]
Pakistani PM Pledges Jobs to Help Curb Violence
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says job growth and economic development are key to curbing violence in the country’s southwest. Mr. Gilani said Tuesday that the government will provide 20,000 jobs to youths in Baluchistan province. He made the remarks during a speech to army recruits in the provincial capital, Quetta. The prime minister […]
Liberians Vote in Second Post-War Election
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:35 am (UTC-5)
Liberians endured a steady rain Tuesday to vote in the country’s second national elections since the end of a 14-year civil war. Election observers told VOA that most polling stations opened on time and that voting was proceeding smoothly despite the weather. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is facing a tough fight for a second term, […]
Libya’s NTC Says Battle for Sirte Nears End
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:20 am (UTC-5)
Libya’s revolutionary forces say they are close to taking full control in Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte. National Transitional Council fighters say they have squeezed pro-Gadhafi fighters into two neighborhoods of resistance as the battle for the city continued on Tuesday. There were reports that NTC fighters pushed Gadhafi loyalists to areas in the north […]
WHO Says Tuberculosis Cases Worldwide Decline for the First Time
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:05 am (UTC-5)
The World Health Organization says the number of people worldwide getting tuberculosis declined last year for the first time. WHO statistics published Tuesday show the number of people who became sick with the disease dropped to 8.8 million in 2010. The number of people who died last year from TB fell to 1.4 million. The […]
Trial of Nigerian in Failed US Airliner Attack Begins Tuesday
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 11:00 am (UTC-5)
The trial of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner with a bomb hidden in his underwear begins with opening statements in a U.S. court on Tuesday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is representing himself in the trial in the U.S. city of Detroit, but he agreed to allow a court-appointed standby […]
Four Kidnapped Afghan Aid Workers Released
Posted October 11th, 2011 at 10:55 am (UTC-5)
Officials say four kidnapped Afghans working for a French development organization have been released in northern Afghanistan. Authorities in Faryab province said Taliban militants released the aid workers Tuesday after local elders intervened on their behalf. The staff members of the aid group ACTED were abducted Monday as they drove through the area. The Associated […]
