The West African group ECOWAS is threatening sanctions and a possible military response to the coup by renegade soldiers last week in Mali. ECOWAS said Tuesday it would send a delegation of at least five heads of state within the next 48 hours to try to negotiate a return to the country’s constitutional, elected leadership. […]
ECOWAS Threatens Sanctions, Military Invervention in Mali
Posted March 28th, 2012 at 2:00 am (UTC-5)
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Ichiro Returns to Japan for MLB Opener
Posted March 28th, 2012 at 1:05 am (UTC-5)
Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki and his Seattle Mariners will open Major League Baseball’s 2012 season Wednesday in Tokyo with a game against the Oakland Athletics. The game is the fourth time the MLB has opened its season in Japan. But it is the first time Ichiro will return with the Mariners to play in […]
Kerry: Senate May Take Up Magnitsky Sanctions Bill Targeting Russian Officials
Posted March 28th, 2012 at 12:20 am (UTC-5)
Democrat John Kerry says a U.S. Senate committee may take up a bill imposing sanctions on Russian officials involved in the 2009 prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Kerry, who heads the Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday he would like to put it on the agenda when the Senate returns from Spring recess next month. […]
Ichiro Returns to Japan for MLB Opener
Posted March 28th, 2012 at 12:15 am (UTC-5)
Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki and his Seattle Mariners will open Major League Baseball’s 2012 season Wednesday in Tokyo with a game against the Oakland Athletics. The game is the fourth time the MLB has opened its season in Japan. But it is the first time Ichiro will return with the Mariners to play in […]
US Man Undergoes Full Face Transplant
Posted March 28th, 2012 at 12:10 am (UTC-5)
A U.S. man has undergone what his doctors say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed. A team of more than 100 surgeons and nurses at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore spent 36 hours last week operating on Richard Norris, a 37-year-old resident who was left horribly disfigured by a gun […]
