Syrian rebel fighters say they have pulled out of the besieged Baba Amr district of Homs after a punishing, monthlong military assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces. Calling themselves the Baba Amr Revolutionary Brigades, the rebels said Thursday they are leaving to spare some 4,000 civilians who have insisted on remaining in their homes. […]
Syrian Rebels Retreat From Besieged Stronghold
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC-5)
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China’s Top Official in Tibet Orders New Media Clampdown
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC-5)
China’s top leader in Tibet is urging local authorities to clamp down on Internet and mobile phone use in the region, as Beijing prepares to open its annual National People’s Congress and Tibetans honor those who have died protesting Chinese rule. The state-run Tibet Daily quotes regional Communist Party chief Chen Quanguo as saying that […]
ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Sudan Defense Minister
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan’s defense minister, Abdel Raheem Muhammed Hussein. Hussein is accused of coordinating attacks against villages in Sudan’s Darfur region between August 2003 and March 2004. The ICC prosecutor’s office says the attacks followed a pattern in which the villages were surrounded, bombed by the Sudanese […]
Syrian Rebels Retreat From Besieged Stronghold
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC-5)
Syrian rebel fighters say they have pulled out of the besieged Baba Amr district of Homs after a punishing, month-long military assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces. Calling themselves the Baba Amr Revolutionary Brigades, the rebels said Thursday they are leaving to spare some 4,000 civilians who have insisted on remaining in their homes. […]
South Sudan Accuses North of Bombing Oil Wells
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC-5)
Officials in South Sudan have accused neighboring Sudan of bombing oil wells, the latest sign of rising tension between the countries. Several officials, including government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin, say Sudanese warplanes dropped bombs Wednesday in an area of Unity State, about 75 kilometers from the two countries’ contested border. The officials say the bombardment […]
Eurozone Jobless Rate Hits New High
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 10:15 am (UTC-5)
The jobless rate in the 17-nation euro currency bloc has hit a new high, but European leaders are voicing confidence that the continent’s two-year governmental debt crisis is nearing an end. The European Union said Thursday that the eurozone’s unemployment rate hit 10.7 percent in January, the worst figure since the euro was first used […]
Tibetan Exiles Protest China’s Top Diplomat in India
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
Indian police dragged away a group of Tibetan exiles as they demonstrated Thursday in New Delhi outside a meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Indian counterpart. The protesters were demanding that China withdraw from disputed China-India border land high in the Himalayas, where both sides have backed their competing territorial claims in […]
South Sudan Accuses North of Bombing Oil Wells
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC-5)
Officials in South Sudan have accused neighboring Sudan of bombing oil wells, the latest sign of rising tension between the countries. Several officials, including government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin, say Sudanese warplanes dropped bombs Wednesday in an area of Unity State, about 75 kilometers from the two countries’ contested border. The officials say the bombardment […]
Burmese President Vows to Continue Democratic Reforms
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 9:10 am (UTC-5)
Burmese President Thein Sein is urging patience as his government carries out a series of democratic reforms launched nearly a year ago. The president, in an address to parliament Thursday, said the country faces a long and difficult road to fully transform itself after decades of military rule. He said there is more to be […]
Syrian Rebels Retreat From Besieged Stronghold
Posted March 1st, 2012 at 8:55 am (UTC-5)
Most of Syria’s rebel fighters have pulled out of the besieged Baba Amr district of Homs after a months-long military assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces. A Syrian security official told the French News Agency that the area is under control of the military. Activists say Syrian forces have moved into the neighborhood and […]
