North Korea announced Monday it will hold a special ruling party conference just before a controversial satellite launch set for mid-April. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the Workers’ Party conference will be held on April 11 in the capital, Pyongyang. Analysts say the delegates are likely to appoint the country’s new leader, […]
N. Korea Sets Date for Special Party Conference
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 8:40 pm (UTC-5)
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South Sudan: Sudan Is Waging War, Thwarting Peace Talks
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 7:35 pm (UTC-5)
South Sudan is accusing Sudan of waging war and thwarting African Union peace talks aimed at stopping rising border clashes. During talks in Addis Ababa Sunday, South Sudan’s chief negotiator Pagan Amum accused Khartoum of conducting air strikes for a seventh straight day. Meanwhile, Sudan accuses South Sudanese army forces of crossing several kilometers into […]
Mali Junta ‘Restores’ Constitution; Rebels Sweep North
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 6:30 pm (UTC-5)
West African leaders plan to hold an emergency summit Monday in Senegal on the rapidly changing situation in Mali, where the military seized power in a coup last month. Leaders of the military coup and Tuareg rebels fighting for an independent homeland in northern Mali are vying for power in the country. The rebels have […]
Iraqi Kurdistan Halts Oil Exports, Defies Baghdad
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC-5)
Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region has halted oil exports, accusing the central government in Baghdad of failing to pay the oil companies working in the oil-rich area. Kurdistan’s Ministry of Natural Resources said Sunday that “there have been no payments for 10 months.” But officials in Baghdad have said more than $500 million have been approved […]
Burma’s Opposition Claims Election Win for Suu Kyi
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 6:00 pm (UTC-5)
The party of Burma’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent most of the past two decades under military-ordered house arrest, says she has won a parliamentary seat in historic by-elections. The Nobel laureate’s National League for Democracy party announced the victory shortly after polls closed late Sunday, saying Aung San Suu Kyi won […]
675 Russian Fishermen Rescued from Ice Floe
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 4:55 pm (UTC-5)
Russian emergency workers deployed helicopters and hovercraft Sunday to rescue 675 fishermen stranded on an ice floe off Sakhalin Island. It took the rescue teams almost eight hours to pluck the fishermen off the ice before they drifted across the frigid Sea of Okhostk in Russia’s far east and hopelessly out to sea. The fishermen […]
ASEAN, EU Strive for Free Trade Agreement
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 4:40 pm (UTC-5)
European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has urged closer economic ties between the EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN. During a business conference between EU and Asian officials in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Sunday, De Gucht called on participants to make “concrete progress” on negotiations for a far-reaching free […]
South Sudan: Sudan Is Waging War, Thwarting Peace Talks
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 4:15 pm (UTC-5)
South Sudan is accusing Sudan of waging war and thwarting African Union peace talks aimed at stopping rising border clashes. During talks in Addis Ababa Sunday, South Sudan’s chief negotiator Pagan Amum accused Khartoum of conducting air strikes for a seventh straight day. Amum told reporters that “Up to today, they are bombing South Sudan.” […]
Gulf Nations to Pay Syrian Rebel Salaries, US Offers Non-Lethal Support
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC-5)
Participants in Sunday’s “Friends of Syria” conference in Istanbul, Turkey, say several Gulf nations will provide millions of dollars to the main opposition Syrian National Council to pay the salaries of rebels trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The delegates who spoke on condition of anonymity said the move is aimed at encouraging more […]
NLD Claims Aung San Suu Kyi Election Win
Posted April 1st, 2012 at 1:30 pm (UTC-5)
Supporters of Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent most of the past two decades under military-ordered house arrest, say she won a seat Sunday in Burma’s lower house of parliament. The Nobel laureate’s National League for Democracy party announced the victory shortly after polls closed in Burma’s by-elections late Sunday, saying she […]
