Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev says his party’s landslide victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections is a sign of national unity and support for his government, following deadly anti-government protests last month. But international observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday criticized the election, saying it excluded any real opposition to Mr. […]
Kazakh Leader Hails Unity, OSCE Criticizes Parliament Vote
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 10:20 am (UTC-5)
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European Financial Markets Shrug at Credit Downgrades
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 10:15 am (UTC-5)
European financial markets appear largely indifferent to last week’s credit downgrades for France and eight other European countries, in part because investors had assumed for a while their ratings would be cut. Europe’s main stock exchanges in London, Paris and Frankfurt traded in a narrow range Monday, fluctuating with small gains and losses. But earlier […]
Internet Giants Fight Web Control in India
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 10:10 am (UTC-5)
Internet giants Google and Facebook have told an Indian court that it is not possible to block offensive content that appears on their websites, in a case that underscores a clash over free speech in the world’s most populous democracy. At the heart of the dispute is a law passed in India last year that […]
Russian President Proposes Direct Election of Governors
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 10:05 am (UTC-5)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed a new law restoring the direct election of regional governors, as part of a series of political reforms promised after mass post-election protests last month. Under the bill, the Kremlin says Russian citizens would choose their regional governors running independently or on a party ticket for a term of […]
Liberian President Takes Oath For Second Term
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 8:55 am (UTC-5)
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has begun her second term with a pledge to maintain peace and create jobs in her formerly war-torn nation. Mrs. Sirleaf spoke Monday after her inauguration in the capital, Monrovia, attended by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking officials, including the leaders of Guinea, Benin, Senegal, Sierra […]
Workers Suspend Cruise Ship Rescue Operations
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC-5)
Rescue workers suspended operations Monday aboard a stricken cruise ship off the coast of Italy, after the huge vessel slipped on its rocky resting place in bad weather. Six people are known dead and at least 14 others remain missing as a result of the accident, which the ship’s owners are blaming on human error […]
Car Bombs Kill At Least 12 People in Iraq
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC-5)
Iraqi authorities say separate car bombings in the north and south of the country have killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 10 others. In the deadliest of the attacks Monday, a car bomb went off inside a residential compound for displaced Iraqi Shi’ites near the northern city of Mosul, killing nine people, […]
Philippine Chief Justice Impeachment Trial Begins
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 8:30 am (UTC-5)
The Philippines’ first impeachment trial of a Supreme Court justice began Monday. Members of the 23-person Senate will sit as judges to determine whether Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona should be removed from his post. The Philippine constitution requires a two-thirds endorsement of the senators, or 16, for Corona to become the first Philippine […]
Liberian President Takes Oath For Second Term
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 8:30 am (UTC-5)
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has begun her second term with a pledge to maintain peace and create jobs in her formerly war-torn nation. Mrs. Sirleaf spoke Monday after her inauguration in the capital, Monrovia, attended by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other high-ranking officials, including the leaders of Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone […]
Nigeria Labor Unions Suspend Strike Over Fuel Prices
Posted January 16th, 2012 at 8:05 am (UTC-5)
Nigerian union leaders say they are suspending a nationwide strike over fuel costs, after the president announced a partial rollback of this month’s price increase. The head of the Nigeria Labor Congress, Abdulwahed Omar, told a news conference in Abuja Monday that unions are suspending the strike and the demonstrations that have taken place in […]
