A British soldier has been killed during an operation to rescue an Afghan police officer in southern Afghanistan. The governor of Helmand province says armed insurgents kidnapped the officer at a police checkpoint in the Nar-e-Seraj district late Sunday. NATO and Afghan officials said Monday that British forces freed the abducted policeman, but the insurgents […]
British Soldier Killed During Rescue of Afghan Policeman
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 11:25 am (UTC-5)
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Beacons Lit Across British Commonwealth to Honor Queen
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC-5)
Thousands of beacons will be lit across Britain and the Commonwealth in commemoration of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee marking her 60th year on the throne. The first beacons were set alight in New Zealand and Tonga. Some 4,000 will be lit at 10:00 pm local time in other Commonwealth countries and across England. The 86-year-old […]
EU Condemns Serbian President’s Denial of Genocide in Srebrenica
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
The European Union has rejected comments by Serbia’s new president that the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s eastern town of Srebrenica was not a genocide. A spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemned the statement by President Tomislav Nikolic, saying the massacre in Srebrenica was genocide and […]
British Soldier Killed During Rescue of Afghan Policeman
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 10:45 am (UTC-5)
A British soldier has been killed during an operation to rescue an Afghan police officer in southern Afghanistan. The governor of Helmand province says armed insurgents kidnapped the officer at a police checkpoint in the Nar-e-Seraj district late Sunday. NATO and Afghan officials said Monday that British forces freed the abducted policeman, but the insurgents […]
Suspected US Drone Strike Kills 15 in Pakistan
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed at least 15 people in the country’s northwest, in the third such attack in as many days. Security officials say missiles hit a compound in the Hesokhel village of the North Waziristan tribal agency early Monday. There were reports that foreigners were among the dead. It […]
Dozens of Syrian Soldiers Killed as Diplomacy Stalls
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 10:15 am (UTC-5)
Diplomacy again stalled on Syria as clashes continued Monday, with rights groups saying dozens of people were killed in the latest battles between Syrian government forces and rebels. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports more than 75 government soldiers were killed over the last few days as rebels intensified attacks on government checkpoints. […]
Dozens of Syrian Soldiers Killed as Diplomacy Stalls
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC-5)
Diplomacy again stalled on Syria as clashes continued Monday, with rights groups saying dozens of people were killed in the latest battles between Syrian government forces and rebels. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports more than 75 government soldiers were killed over the last few days as rebels intensified attacks on government checkpoints. […]
China Rejects US Call to Release Tiananmen Prisoners
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC-5)
China’s foreign ministry has expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with a U.S. call for Beijing to free all those still imprisoned for the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Responding to a question from the VOA Mandarin service, foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told reporters that the U.S. State Department call was a gross intervention in China’s internal affairs […]
Dozens of Syrian Soldiers Killed as Diplomacy Stalls
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 9:05 am (UTC-5)
Diplomacy again stalled on Syria as clashes continued Monday, with rights groups saying dozens of people were killed in recent days in battles between Syrian government forces and rebels. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports more than 75 government soldiers were killed over the weekend as rebels intensified attacks on government checkpoints. State […]
Report: Rwanda Arming Rebels in Eastern DRC
Posted June 4th, 2012 at 9:05 am (UTC-5)
A human-rights group says Rwandan military officials have been arming rebels fighting the government in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says it has evidence the officials have provided weapons, ammunition and up to 300 new recruits to the rebel forces of renegade DRC General Bosco Ntaganda. It says some of […]
