Representatives from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Durban, South Africa, to negotiate strategies for dealing with climate change, including how to extend the soon-to-expire Kyoto Protocol. Efforts to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto pact, which committed industrialized nations to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by a set amount by 2012, have been on hold […]
UN Climate Conference to Begin in South Africa
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 10:45 pm (UTC-5)
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Egypt Holds Landmark Elections
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 10:20 pm (UTC-5)
Egypt is entering the next stage of its transition with parliamentary elections, the first since massive street protests forced former President Hosni Mubarak to resign in February. The complex, staggered polls to elect parliament’s lower house begin Monday and conclude in early January. Elections for the upper house end in March, after which the newly […]
Egypt Begins Landmark Elections Monday
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
Egypt is entering the next stage of its transition with parliamentary elections, the first since massive street protests forced former President Hosni Mubarak to resign in February. The complex, staggered polls to elect parliament’s lower house begin Monday and conclude in early January. Elections for the upper house end in March, after which the newly […]
Egypt Begins Landmark Elections
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 7:55 pm (UTC-5)
Egypt is entering the next stage of its transition with parliamentary elections, the first since massive street protests forced former President Hosni Mubarak to resign in February. The complex, staggered polls to elect parliament’s lower house begin Monday and conclude in early January. Elections for the upper house end in March, after which the newly […]
Pakistan Buries Troops Amid Fury Over NATO Strike
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 7:00 pm (UTC-5)
Afghan officials say NATO and Afghan forces patrolling near the Pakistan border came under fire before they called in the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on Saturday. Sunday’s account by unnamed officials contradicts Islamabad’s claims that the attack on two Pakistani army bases was unprovoked. NATO and U.S. officials responded quickly to try […]
Moderate Islamist Party Wins Morocco Election
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 6:55 pm (UTC-5)
Final results from Morocco’s parliamentary elections show that a moderate Islamist party has won the most seats in the country’s legislature, giving it the right to lead a coalition for the first time. Morocco’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that the Justice and Development Party — the PJD — captured 107 seats in the 395-seat assembly […]
U.S. Post-Thanksgiving Shoppers Break Records
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 6:40 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. consumers spent their way to a new record in the days following the Thanksgiving holiday, giving retailers hope for better profits in a year of mostly gloomy economic news. A retail federation survey Sunday said some 226 million people shopped in stores and on the internet, spending more than $52 billion, 16 percent more […]
Yemen Names New PM as Continued Violence Kills 24
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 6:20 pm (UTC-5)
Yemen’s Vice President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi has named opposition leader Mohammed Basindwa as the new prime minister. The country’s official Saba news agency said Sunday Basindwa is to form a new national unity government under the Gulf-sponsored agreement signed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, last week to transfer power […]
Pakistan Buries Troops Amid Fury Over NATO Strike
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 6:10 pm (UTC-5)
Afghan officials say NATO and Afghan forces patrolling near the Pakistan border came under fire before they called in the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on Saturday. Sunday’s account by unnamed officials contradicts Islamabad’s claims that the attack on two Pakistani army bases was unprovoked. NATO and U.S. officials responded quickly to try […]
Arab League Imposes Sanctions on Syria
Posted November 27th, 2011 at 5:25 pm (UTC-5)
Arab League foreign ministers on Sunday approved unprecedented sanctions against Syria, after Damascus failed to accept its plan to send monitors in response to a deadly crackdown on the anti-government uprising. Following the meeting in Cairo, Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani said that 19 of the 22 Arab League members voted […]
