Italian rescuers are again searching for survivors inside the wreck of a luxury cruise ship that hit rocks and capsized off the coast of northern Italy. The search restarted Monday afternoon, hours after the Costa Concordia slipped on its rocky resting place in bad weather, sending divers fleeing to safety. Six people are known dead […]
Workers Restart Italian Cruise Ship Rescue Operations
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 9:40 pm (UTC-5)
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UN’s Ban Urges Security Council to Act ‘Seriously’ on Syria Crisis
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 7:50 pm (UTC-5)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the Security Council to take “serious” action against Syria, where he says casualties from a 10-month opposition uprising have reached “unacceptable” levels. Speaking Monday on a visit to Abu Dhabi, Mr. Ban appealed to the Council to act in a “coherent” manner in resolving the Syrian crisis. Western […]
Venezuela Says Consulate Officials in US Threatened
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 7:20 pm (UTC-5)
Venezuela says it is withdrawing its personnel from its consulate in the U.S. city of Miami because the staff there have been threatened. The moves comes shortly after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the closure of the consulate in Miami in an escalating diplomatic dispute. President Chavez said on Friday he was closing the consulate […]
Kazakhstan Leader Hails Unity, OSCE Criticizes Parliament Vote
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 6:55 pm (UTC-5)
Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, says his party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections is a sign of support for his government after last month’s deadly anti-government protests. But observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday criticized the election, saying it excluded any real opposition. The OSCE report said the polls […]
Islamist Set to Lead Egypt’s Next Parliament
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 6:35 pm (UTC-5)
Egypt’s leading political parties have agreed to select a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure as speaker of the country’s newly elected parliament, with another Islamist group and a liberal party taking the deputy posts. The Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party-led alliance, which secured the biggest bloc in parliamentary elections, proposed its secretary-general, Mohamed Saad el-Katatni, as […]
Kazakhstan Leader Hails Unity, OSCE Criticizes Parliament Vote
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 5:55 pm (UTC-5)
Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, says his party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections is a sign of support for his government after last month’s deadly anti-government protests. But observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday criticized the election, saying it excluded any real opposition. The OSCE report said the polls […]
Pakistan PM Agrees to Appear in Court
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC-5)
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has agreed to appear before the Supreme Court later this week to face a contempt notice for failing to reopen a graft case against President Asif Ali Zardari. The Supreme Court ordered Gilani to appear on January 19. If convicted of contempt of court, Mr. Gilani could be sent […]
Workers Restart Italian Cruise Ship Rescue Operations
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 5:00 pm (UTC-5)
Italian rescuers are again searching for survivors inside the wreck of a luxury cruise ship that hit rocks and capsized off the coast of northern Italy. The search restarted Monday afternoon, hours after the Costa Concordia slipped on its rocky resting place in bad weather, sending divers fleeing to safety. Six people are known dead […]
Islamist Set to Lead Egypt’s Next Parliament
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 4:55 pm (UTC-5)
Egypt’s leading political parties have agreed to select a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure as speaker of the country’s newly elected parliament, with another Islamist group and a liberal party taking the deputy posts. The Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party-led alliance, which secured the biggest bloc in parliamentary elections, proposed its secretary-general, Mohamed Saad el-Katatni, as […]
Obama Urges Volunteerism on MLK Day
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 4:35 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama and his family volunteered at a Washington, DC school Monday, to honor slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Mr. Obama painted a bookcase at the event, on the annual Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. Afterwards, the president told reporters that King wanted to inspire everyone to make a […]
