South Korean President Lee Myung Bak says a new era in inter-Korean relations can be opened if North Korea shows sincerity. In a nationally televised New Year’s address Monday, Mr. Lee said there is a new opportunity on the Korean peninsula as the young son of the late Kim Jong Il takes power as Supreme […]
Seoul Sees Opportunity for Better Ties with North Korea
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 10:40 pm (UTC-5)
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Syrian Civilian Deaths Undermine Arab League Mission
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 9:45 pm (UTC-5)
Syrian security forces were said to have killed at least seven more protesters Sunday as an Arab League advisory body called for the immediate withdrawal of monitors from the country, saying the unit is failing to prevent government troops from murdering civilians. Four of the new deaths – the first in 2012 – came when […]
Republican Candidates Campaigning Hard Before Iowa Test
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 9:40 pm (UTC-5)
Republican candidates hoping to win the White House in November have just one more full day of campaigning before Tuesday’s Iowa caucus — the first major test of the 2012 presidential election. A poll by the state’s most prominent newspaper, the Des Moines Register, makes it hard for experts to predict a winner. The newspaper […]
Egypt Defends Raids on Civil Society Groups
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 7:20 pm (UTC-5)
Two Egyptian ministers have defended last week’s raids on the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy organizations, rejecting denunciations from the United States, the United Nations and Germany. Planning and International Cooperation Minister Faiza Aboul Naga and Justice Minister Adel Abdel-Hamid Abdullah said Sunday that prosecutors were justified in investigating the groups because they […]
Egypt Defends Raids on Civil Society Groups
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 7:05 pm (UTC-5)
Two Egyptian ministers have defended last week’s raids on the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy organizations, rejecting denunciations from the United States, the United Nations and Germany. Planning and International Cooperation Minister Faiza Aboul Naga and Justice Minister Adel Abdel-Hamid Abdullah said Sunday that prosecutors were justified in investigating the groups because they […]
Home-Brewed Liquor Kills 15 in India
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 6:00 pm (UTC-5)
Officials in eastern India said Sunday at least 15 people died after consuming a batch of tainted homemade liquor over the weekend. The officials said some 24 others are being treated in hospitals in the Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh state. The victims, mostly poor laborers, became sick after buying cheap alcohol from bootleggers for […]
Pakistan: 3 Iranians Detained After Cross-Border Attack
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani officials say border guards have detained three Iranian security personnel after they crossed into Pakistan late Sunday while chasing two men. The officials in the Mazah Sar area of southwestern Baluchistan Province said the Iranian guards tried to take the two Pakistani nationals back into Iran. They said both men were wounded in the […]
Republican Candidates Campaigning Hard Before Iowa Test
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 4:55 pm (UTC-5)
VIDEO: APTN/ABCN1 feed attached below. Shotlist in asset manager TYPE: CN )) Republican presidential candidates are spending the first day of 2012 campaigning hard for support, two days before the first big test in this year’s presidential election. In one of the most volatile campaigns in decades, new opinion polls show rapidly shifting support for […]
Nigeria Ends Fuel Subsidies
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 3:30 pm (UTC-5)
Nigerian authorities are ending fuel subsidies. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency announced Sunday that it will stop paying the subsidies to fuel importers effective immediately. The plan is expected to be widely unpopular with Nigerians, whose country is the continent’s top exporter of crude oil. Previous attempts to end the subsidy have prompted strike […]
Arab League Urged to Withdraw Monitors from Syria
Posted January 1st, 2012 at 3:10 pm (UTC-5)
An Arab League advisory body is calling for the immediate withdrawal of league monitors from Syria, saying the unit is failing to prevent the killing of civilians by government forces. Syrian activists say forces loyal to embattled President Bashar al-Assad killed at least nine people Saturday, as leaders of the country’s two largest opposition groups […]
