The United Nations is urging Uganda to prosecute a captured field commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. Ugandan forces captured Caesar Acellam, one of the LRA’s top military leaders, in the Central African Republic on Saturday. Since then, multiple Ugandan officials have said Acellam could receive a pardon under the country’s Amnesty Act. Radhika […]
UN Urges Uganda to Prosecute Captured LRA Commander
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC-5)
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Iran and UN Nuclear Regulators Agree to Meet Again
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC-5)
Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency have ended two days of talks in Vienna with an agreement to meet again next week to discuss international concerns about Iran’s controversial nuclear program. The chief U.N. and Iranian negotiators said Tuesday the two sides will hold another meeting in the Austrian capital on Monday. International Atomic Energy […]
Bush: US Must Support Democratic Revolutions
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC-5)
Former U.S. President George W. Bush has praised those who challenge authoritarian rule in the Middle East and elsewhere and cautioned that the U.S. cannot fear the uncertainty that follows the fall of such a regime. Mr. Bush spoke Tuesday in Washington, where he launched a project to collect videos of interviews with political dissidents […]
France’s Hollande Heading to Germany, Again
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
Newly installed French President Francois Hollande is again making his way to Berlin after his first flight was turned around following a lightning strike. French officials said the presidential plane, a Falcon 7X, was hit by lightning shortly after take-off from a military air base outside Paris Tuesday. No one was hurt, but the plane […]
Burma’s Suu Kyi Backs Plan to Lift US Sanctions
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC-5)
Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is cautiously backing a proposal to lift U.S. economic sanctions on Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi says she supports efforts by U.S. Senator John McCain to suspend, rather than eliminate, sanctions. She says it would send a strong message that the United States supports the country’s […]
Brooks, Husband Lash Out at Phone-Hacking Charges
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC-5)
The high profile, former editor of a British tabloid is speaking out, denouncing charges against her and six others in the country’s ongoing phone-hacking scandal. Rebekah Brooks questioned the validity of the charges Tuesday, telling reporters she was “baffled” by the decision to charge her. She accused prosecutors of carrying on “nothing more than an […]
Greek Talks Fail, Prompting a New Election
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC-5)
Talks aimed at resolving the political crisis hanging over debt-plagued Greece have fallen apart. A statement Tuesday from the office of Greek President Karolos Papoulias declared the talks a failure. And Socialist PASOK party leader Evangelos Venizelos says the country will now have to hold fresh elections. That vote could be held next month. Political […]
NATO Invites Pakistan to Upcoming Afghan Summit
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 1:15 pm (UTC-5)
NATO has invited Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to the alliance’s summit in Chicago, a day after the country’s prime minister proposed reopening ground supply routes to international troops in Afghanistan. Mr. Zardari’s spokesman said the president was considering the invitation, which he described as “unconditional” and not linked to the opening of supply lines […]
Activists Say Syrian Forces Kill 20 at Funeral
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 1:10 pm (UTC-5)
Syrian activists say government forces have shot and killed at least 20 people at a funeral procession in central Syria while U.N. military observers were in the area. The activists say the shootings happened Tuesday in Khan Sheikhoun, near the city of Hama. There was no independent confirmation of the casualties. A spokesman for international […]
Iran and UN Nuclear Regulators Agree to Meet Again
Posted May 15th, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC-5)
Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency have ended two days of talks in Vienna with an agreement to meet again next week to discuss international concerns about Iran’s controversial nuclear program. The chief U.N. and Iranian negotiations said Tuesday the two sides will hold another meeting in the Austrian capital on Monday. International Atomic Energy […]
