Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission says it will release provisional presidential election results Wednesday, a day after five candidates called for the results to be annulled because of alleged fraud. Unofficial early results from Sunday’s poll give the lead to former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior of the ruling African Party for the Independence of Guinea and […]
Guinea Bissau Election Results Due Amid Fraud Claims
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC-5)
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Burma Invites US, EU to Observe April 1 Balloting
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC-5)
U.S. and European officials say they have been invited to send teams to observe Burma’s April 1 by-elections. An official at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon confirmed the invitation to VOA and other news organizations Wednesday — at the same time a Bangkok-based elections monitoring group said its top coordinator was expelled from Burma. The […]
French Police Negotiate Surrender of School Shooting Suspect
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 7:40 am (UTC-5)
French police are negotiating the surrender of a man suspected in the shooting deaths of seven people, including three Jewish children at a school in Toulouse. Officials say the suspect is 24-year-old Mohammed Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian origin who claims links to al-Qaida and had been previously detained in Afghanistan. Interior Minister Claude Gueant […]
China: High Oil Prices Could Cause Social Unrest
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 7:35 am (UTC-5)
China is warning that rising domestic oil prices could threaten social stability, after Beijing raised the price of retail gasoline for the second time in two months. The government said earlier this week that it was raising gas prices by 6.5 percent and diesel by 7 percent — the biggest price hike in China in […]
China: High Oil Prices Could Cause Social Unrest
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 6:35 am (UTC-5)
China is warning that rising domestic oil prices could threaten social stability, after Beijing raised the price of retail gasoline for the second time in two months. The government said earlier this week that it was raising gas prices by 6.5 percent and diesel by 7 percent — the biggest price hike in China in […]
British Woman Freed in Somalia
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 6:30 am (UTC-5)
Somali kidnappers have freed a British woman abducted from a Kenyan beach resort more than six months ago. Witnesses say Judith Tebbutt was released in Somalia’s Addado region Wednesday and put on a plane to Nairobi. British and Somali officials confirmed her release. British media reports say Tebbutt’s family paid a ransom to secure her […]
Family Says Slain Florida Teenager Confronted by Gunman
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 6:00 am (UTC-5)
The lawyer for the family of an African-American teenager shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida says they have information disputing the man’s claim that he shot the boy in self-defense. Benjamin Crump told reporters Tuesday that records of calls from Trayvon Martin’s mobile phone shows the boy was talking to his […]
Burma Invites US, EU to Observe April 1 Balloting
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 6:00 am (UTC-5)
U.S. and European officials say they have been invited to send teams to observe Burma’s April 1 by-elections. An official at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon confirmed the invitation to VOA and other news organizations Wednesday — a day after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations said it had received a similar invitation. The invitations […]
Romney Wins Illinois Republican Primary
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 5:20 am (UTC-5)
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pulled off a convincing win in Tuesday’s Illinois primary, enlarging his lead in the race for the party’s nomination. With nearly 100 percent of all voting precincts counted, Romney has won 47 percent of the vote, well ahead of his main rival, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, who […]
British Woman Freed in Somalia
Posted March 21st, 2012 at 5:15 am (UTC-5)
Somali officials say they have released a British woman who had been held hostage since her kidnapping last year from an exclusive island resort near the Kenya-Somalia border. Judith Tebbutt was to be flown to Nairobi, Wednesday, after her release. She was kidnapped — and her husband, David, was killed — in September 2011, just […]
