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 […]
UN Chief Says Iran Must Prove Nuclear Program is Peaceful
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 9:00 am (UTC-5)
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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 […]
Karzai Meets Sarkozy After France Threatens Afghan Withdrawal
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 7:05 am (UTC-5)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday, a week after the French leader threatened to pull his troops out of Afghanistan early. During talks in Paris, President Karzai is expected to sign a long-term strategic agreement outlining France’s role in Afghanistan after all international troops leave the war-torn country in 2014. […]
Russia Criticizes Arab-Western Draft Resolution on Syria
Posted January 27th, 2012 at 6:45 am (UTC-5)
WEB: TYPE: CN )) Russia says it cannot support the current version of a joint Arab-Western draft U.N. resolution on Syria because it “does not take into account” Moscow’s positions on how to end the 10-month-old political crisis. Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov was quoted by Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency as saying that Russia is […]
