Taiwanese officials say a fire has killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a hospital housing mainly bedridden patients in southern Taiwan. Hospital officials say the fire broke out in the second floor nursing facility of the Hsinying Hospital in Tainan city early Tuesday. Officials say the injured, many of whom were too frail […]
Taiwan Hospital Fire Kills 12, Injures 70: Officials
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 11:25 pm (UTC-5)
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US Pledges More Aid To Horn of Africa
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 8:25 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States will give $58 million in aid to countries in the Horn of Africa. In a statement Monday, Clinton said the humanitarian situation in the region is fragile, with more than 9 million people in need of assistance because of conflict, flooding, drought and economic problems. […]
UN Envoy: No Improvement In Iran’s Human Rights Situation
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 8:05 pm (UTC-5)
A United Nations human rights envoy says the Iranian government is responsible for egregious rights violations and remains a leading user of capital punishment. Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, told reporters, diplomats and rights activists in New York Monday that unfair trials, torture of prisoners, repression of journalists, persecution of […]
Russian Lawmakers Slam US Human Rights Record
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 7:05 pm (UTC-5)
Russian lawmakers have accused the United States of double standards on human rights, criticizing Washington’s failure to close Guantanamo Bay prison and a range of alleged ills plaguing U.S. society. The country’s lower house of parliament, or Duma, on Monday heard the Russian Foreign Ministry report that says racism, social inequalities, prison brutality, electoral irregularities […]
American Indian Activist Russell Means Dies
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 6:55 pm (UTC-5)
American Indian activist and actor Russell Means died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 72. Means, a onetime leader of the American Indian Movement, called national attention to the plight of impoverished Native Americans in the 1970s. He helped organize the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee – a 71-day confrontation in which hundreds […]
Russia’s Opposition Elects Leaders Online
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 4:30 pm (UTC-5)
Russia’s opposition has held an online election for a 45-member leadership that will be tasked with organizing mass street protests against President Vladimir Putin into a more structured movement. Organizers say nearly 82,000 people participated in the balloting that ended Monday. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny won more than half of the votes. The poll comes […]
London Court Opens Trial of 3 British Islamists Accused of Bomb Plot
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC-5)
Three British Islamists are on trial in Britain, facing accusations of plotting terrorist attacks that could have been deadlier than the 2005 London transit bombings. Prosecutor Brian Altman told a high-security London court Monday the three defendants planned to detonate up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack or set off timer bombs in […]
Albanian Former Dissidents End Hunger Strike
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
A group of former Albanian political prisoners says they are ending their month-long hunger strike because of exhaustion and political pressure. The activists have been protesting delays in government compensation for time they spent in jail under the country’s communist government. Twenty people began the strike last month, but only six strikers were left on […]
Russia’s Roseneft Take Control of Major Oil Venture
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Rosneft has reached a deal to buy a competing energy company controlled by Britain’s BP and a group of Russian billionaires. Rosneft says it will pay nearly $55 billion for Russia’s third-largest oil company, TNK-BP, in a deal that will leave BP with about a 20 percent stake in the merged […]
London Court Opens Trial of 3 British Islamists Accused of Bomb Plot
Posted October 22nd, 2012 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
Three British Islamists are on trial in Britain, facing accusations of plotting terrorist attacks that could have been deadlier than the 2005 London transit bombings. Prosecutor Brian Altman told a high-security London court Monday the three defendants planned to detonate up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack or set off timber bombs in […]
