The owner of a cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Italy earlier this month has offered about $14,500 in compensation to each of the uninjured passengers who were aboard the vessel. Costa Cruises said it will also refund those passengers the costs of their cruise and trip home. The deal was announced Friday […]
Compensation Plan Offered for Capsized Ship’s Passengers
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
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Kabila’s Party Losing Ground in DRC
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 9:35 am (UTC-5)
Opposition lawmakers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are chipping away at President Joseph Kabila’s hold on parliament. Partial results released Friday by Congo’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) show Mr. Kabila’s PPRD party won 58 seats, the most of any party in the country’s parliamentary elections. But the results put the PPRD on pace […]
UN Chief Says Iran Must Prove Nuclear Program is Peaceful
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 9:00 am (UTC-5)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging Iran to resume talks with Western nations that suspect it is working on a nuclear weapons program. Tehran insists that its atomic program is for peaceful purposes. During a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr.Ban said Iran has the responsibility to prove its […]
Radical Sect Leader Challenges Nigerian President
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 8:55 am (UTC-5)
A leader of the Nigeria’s radical Islamic sect Boko Haram has challenged the president’s vow to crush the group in an audio message posted on the Internet. The message posted on YouTube shows a still image of Imam Abubakar Shekau flanked by Kalashnikov rifles. In the message, he says President Goodluck Jonathan will learn he […]
Turkey Showcases Film to Mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 8:20 am (UTC-5)
Turkey’s observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day began with a broadcast of a French documentary on the Holocaust on state run television. Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” was shown late Thursday, on the eve of the observance. Lanzmann says the broadcast marked the first time a predominantly Muslim country has shown his 1985 biographical film of […]
Nigerian Governors Dismissed by High Court
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 8:20 am (UTC-5)
((UPDATES # 1935605, new info in grafs 2-3, edits, clarifies info in graf 4) Nigeria’s Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday ordering five state governors be removed from office. The governors of Kogi, Adamawa, Bayelsa, Sokoto and Cross River were all elected in 2007 to four-year terms, but their elections were nullified by electoral tribunals […]
Car Bomb Kills 31 in Shiite Neighborhood of Baghdad
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 7:40 am (UTC-5)
Iraqi officials say at least 31 people were killed Friday when a car bomb exploded near a funeral procession in a mainly Shi’ite neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. Hospital workers say at least 60 people were wounded in the suicide bombing in the neighborhood of Zafaraniyah. The blast went off near where mourners had gathered […]
Twitter Announces Selective Censorship Technology
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 7:15 am (UTC-5)
The popular microblogging service Twitter has announced it has new technology enabling it to censor messages on a country-by-country basis in order to follow a range of laws around the world. The U.S.-based company announced on its blog this week that it has not yet used the technology, but that if it does, a message […]
UN Chief Says Iran Must Prove Nuclear Program is Peaceful
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 7:10 am (UTC-5)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is urging Iran to resume talks with Western nations that suspect it is working on a nuclear weapons program. Teheran insists that its atomic program is for peaceful purposes. During a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr.Ban said Iran has the responsibility to prove its […]
Nigerian Governors Dismissed by High Court
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 7:10 am (UTC-5)
Nigeria’s Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday ordering five state governors be removed from office. The court ruled the governors’ mandate to remain in their posts expired in May 2011. The governors include Ibrahim Idris of Kogi state, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Bayelsa state’s Timipre Sylva, Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto state, and Cross River’s Liyel […]
