Israeli settlers have voluntarily evacuated a West Bank settlement outpost, ending a year-long legal battle with the Israeli supreme court, which ruled the Jewish homes were illegally built on land privately-owned by Palestinians. The remaining families of the Migron outpost, built without Israeli government authorization, left early Sunday as Israeli police handed them orders to […]
Israeli Settlers Voluntarily Leave West Bank Outpost
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 11:00 am (UTC-5)
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South Africa Drops Murder Charges Against Miners
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
South African prosecutors have provisionally dropped murder charges against 270 miners accused of killing 34 fellow workers shot dead by police. The miners were charged following the August 16 shooting incident during a strike at the Lonmin mine in Marikana. The acting director of prosecutions, Nomgcono Jiba, said Sunday that final charges will only be […]
Pakistan Cleric Arrested for Evidence Tampering in Blasphemy Case
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 9:50 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani police have arrested a Muslim cleric on suspicion that he planted evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. A police official said Khalid Jadoon, a prayer leader at a mosque in Islamabad, was arrested Saturday for allegedly placing pages of the Quran in the girl’s shopping bag. According to police, members of the […]
Angola Says Dos Santos’ Ruling Party Has Big Election Lead
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 9:10 am (UTC-5)
Angola’s electoral commission says the ruling party of President Eduardo dos Santos has a big lead with most of the votes counted after Friday’s national election, effectively extending his 33 years in power. In a statement Sunday, the commission said Mr. dos Santos’ Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, or MPLA, had almost three-quarters […]
Pakistan Cleric Arrested for Evidence Tampering in Blasphemy Case
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 8:55 am (UTC-5)
Pakistani police have arrested a Muslim cleric on suspicion that he planted evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. A police official said the cleric, Khalid Chishti, was arrested Saturday for allegedly placing pages of the Quran in the girl’s shopping bag. According to police, members of the mosque where the cleric works came […]
US Special Forces Suspend Training of Afghans
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 7:35 am (UTC-5)
The U.S. military in Afghanistan says it has temporarily halted the training of Afghan Local Police in order to redo the vetting of current members after a string of attacks by Afghan soldiers and police on their international allies. Forty-five international troops have been killed in a wave of insider attacks in Afghanistan this year, […]
Tutu: Bush, Blair Should Face Trial for Iraq Actions
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 6:15 am (UTC-5)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu says former U.S. president George W. Bush and former British prime minister Tony Blair acted like “playground bullies” when they decided to invade Iraq in 2003, and should face trial for their actions. In a scathing assessment of the pair in Britain’s Observer newspaper, Tutu wrote “they have driven us to the […]
Mourners Attend Funeral of Ethiopia’s Meles
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 3:55 am (UTC-5)
(( updates from late Saturday, new grafs 1-3, edits ) A host of African heads of state have joined thousands of mourners at a state funeral for Ethiopia’s longtime leader Meles Zenawi. Dignitaries including Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and former South African president Thabo Mbeki are among the speakers at Sunday’s […]
Pakistan Cleric Arrested for Evidence Tampering in Blasphemy Case
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 3:40 am (UTC-5)
Pakistan police have arrested a Muslim cleric on suspicion that he planted evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. A police official said the cleric was arrested Saturday for allegedly placing pages of the Quran in the girl’s shopping bag. Police arrested the girl more than two weeks ago after angry neighbors surrounded her […]
White House Releases Obama Beer Recipes
Posted September 2nd, 2012 at 1:10 am (UTC-5)
Barack Obama already has accumulated an impressive list of accomplishments – U.S. president, U.S. Senator, Nobel Peace Prize winner. He can now add one more title – brew master. President Obama bought a home brewing kit last year and with the help of some fellow home brewers who work in the White House, created several […]
