The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says global food prices rose by nearly two percent between December and January. The FAO tracks a collection of key food commodities and says poor weather in key growing regions played a roll in the rising costs. Thursday’s report says prices rose for all major types of cereals, except […]
WFP: Food Prices Rise Between December & January
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 1:57 pm (UTC-5)
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Burmese Activist Monk Taken into Custody
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 9:50 am (UTC-5)
Burmese authorities have detained a Buddhist monk who was recently freed from prison for leading widespread anti-government protests in 2007. Witnesses say monk U Gambiya was taken early Friday morning from a monastery in Rangoon. Police later confirmed the detention, but declined to provide further details. The monk’s roommate told VOA’s Burmese service police arrived […]
US Trade Deficit Grows
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC-5)
The U.S. trade deficit got nearly four percent worse in December as a reviving economy boosted demand for imported goods. Both imports and exports hit record highs, but imports grew even more than the flow of goods exported from the United States. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department says the gap between what foreigners sell […]
Nigeria Recaptures Top Suspect in Christmas Bombing
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 9:15 am (UTC-5)
Nigerian authorities have recaptured the top suspect in a Christmas day bombing that killed at least 37 people outside the capital, Abuja. Government officials say the State Security Service re-arrested Kabiru Sokoto on Friday in eastern Taraba state near the Cameroon border. Authorities say he has been flown to Abuja. Sokoto is believed to belong […]
Former Maldives President Calls for Early Elections
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 9:05 am (UTC-5)
Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is calling for early elections and threatening street protests as a top United Nations official tries to broker a resolution to the political crisis that erupted Tuesday in the Indian Ocean nation. Mr. Nasheed’s call came after he attended Friday prayers in the capital, Male , under heavy security. He […]
Somali Gov’t: ‘No News’ al-Shabab Allied to al-Qaida
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 8:40 am (UTC-5)
Somalia’s transitional government says it is not surprised that militant group al-Shabab has formally joined forces with al-Qaida. The government’s minister of information, Abdulkadir Hussein Mohamed, said in a statement Friday that word of the alliance is “no news to us.” He asserted that al-Shabab leaders are paid representatives of al-Qaida, and that al-Shabab can […]
Bombs Blasts Kill 25 in Northern Syrian City
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 8:35 am (UTC-5)
Syrian state television says at least 25 people were killed and 175 others wounded in two explosions in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday. The blasts targeted a military intelligence building and a security force base in Syria’s main commercial city, which had been relatively quiet since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime […]
Nigeria Recaptures Top Suspect in Christmas Bombing
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 8:30 am (UTC-5)
Nigerian authorities have recaptured the top suspect in a Christmas day bombing that killed at least 37 people outside the capital, Abuja. Government officials say the State Security Service re-arrested Kabiru Sokoto on Friday in eastern Taraba state near the Cameroon border. Authorities say he has been flown to Abuja. Sokoto is believed to belong […]
Somali Gov’t: ‘No News’ al-Shabab Allied to al-Qaida
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 8:05 am (UTC-5)
Somalia’s transitional government says it is not surprised that militant group al-Shabab has formally joined forces with al-Qaida. The government’s minister of information, Abdulkadir Hussein Mohamed, said in a statement Friday that word of the alliance is “no news to us.” He asserted that al-Shabab leaders are paid representatives of al-Qaida, and that al-Shabab can […]
Bombs Blasts Kill 25 in Northern Syrian City
Posted February 10th, 2012 at 8:00 am (UTC-5)
Syrian state television says at least 25 people were killed and 175 others wounded in two explosions in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday. The blasts targeted a military intelligence building and a security force base in Syria’s main commercial city, which had been relatively quiet since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime […]
