Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, stepping down after 33 years in office, has urged voters to turn out in large numbers to elect his successor in Tuesday’s single-candidate election. Mr. Saleh said Monday the poll was a moment to move the country towards peace and stability after the year-long popular uprising that forced him from […]
Yemen Votes Tuesday for President Saleh’s Replacement
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 11:25 pm (UTC-5)
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Eurozone Ministers Approve Greek Bailout Deal
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 11:00 pm (UTC-5)
Eurozone finance ministers have approved a fresh $171-billion (130 billion euros) bailout for Greece, after more than 12 hours of tense negotiations in Brussels. European officials say the bailout will reduce Greece’s government debt from around 160 percent of the country’s gross domestic product to just over 120 percent by 2020, meeting a key benchmark […]
Yemen Votes Tuesday for President Saleh’s Replacement
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, stepping down after 33 years in office, has urged voters to turn out in large numbers to elect his successor in Tuesday’s single-candidate election. Mr. Saleh said Monday the poll was a moment to move the country towards peace and stability after the year-long popular uprising that forced him from […]
Red Cross Negotiating Humanitarian Cease-Fire in Syria
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is trying to broker a humanitarian cease-fire in Syria, as government tanks and troops mass around the opposition stronghold of Homs after bombarding the city for more than two weeks. ICRC chief spokeswoman Carla Haddad said Monday the Geneva-based agency has been in talks with Syrian […]
Britain Urges World to Focus on Somalia
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 7:20 pm (UTC-5)
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron is urging the international community to strengthen its efforts to help Somalia ahead of a conference in London this week. Mr. Cameron told a reporter for VOA that Britain would like to see the whole world focus on the issue of Somalia, including supporting an African Union peacekeeping force there […]
McCain: Egypt Working ‘Diligently’ to Resolve American NGO Case
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 5:40 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Senator John McCain says Egypt has assured him it is working “diligently” to resolve a dispute with Washington about American pro-democracy activists facing Egyptian prosecution for working illegally in the country. McCain said Monday he received the assurance as he led a delegation of five U.S. senators in talks with Egyptian military ruler Field […]
Witnesses: At least 20 Killed in Nigeria Market Attack
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 5:30 pm (UTC-5)
Witnesses in Nigeria say fighting between soldiers and Islamist insurgents in a market in the country’s northeast has left at least 20 people dead. Residents and medical personnel in the city of Maiduguri say the dead, who they identify as mostly civilians, were killed when the fighting erupted Monday in the popular Baga market. Military […]
Albanian Soldier Dies in Attack in Southern Afghanistan
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 5:30 pm (UTC-5)
Albanian soldiers belonging to the NATO mission in Afghanistan came under attack on Monday, leaving at least one of them dead. It is the first fatality among the 260 Albanian troops serving in Afghanistan. The attack in a village not far from the southern city of Kandahar was staged by gunmen in Afghan police uniforms. […]
US Marks 50 Years Since Glenn’s Historic Orbit of Earth
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 4:20 pm (UTC-5)
The U.S. space agency is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first time an American orbited the Earth. John Glenn went around the planet three times in just under five hours on February 20, 1962, in a mission designed to see how man would react to the space environment. The former astronaut and ex-U.S. senator […]
Afghan Police Kill Albanian Soldier
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 3:55 pm (UTC-5)
Albanian officials say Afghan police opened fire on international troops Monday in southern Afghanistan, killing an Albanian soldier. The Albanian Defense Ministry said authorities arrested 11 Afghan police officers after the shooting, which also wounded another Albanian soldier and a foreign soldier. Earlier reports said two Albanian soldiers had died. It said the incident occurred […]
