The two jailed members of the Russian all-female punk band Pussy Riot have replaced their legal team, their lawyers citing public pressure for their decision to quit. Mark Feigin, one of the lawyers for Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, confirmed the news Monday, saying they had been refused a meeting with Tolokonnikova at the prison […]
Jailed Pussy Riot Members Change Lawyers
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 1:40 pm (UTC-5)
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As US Sanctions Against Burma Ease, American Companies Start Investing
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
With the easing of longstanding U.S. economic sanctions against Burma, major American companies are quickly starting to invest in the Southeast Asian nation. Competing soft drink giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Co. are returning to Burma for the first time in many years. Meanwhile, both MasterCard and Visa have reached deals with Burmese banks for use of […]
NATO Considers Turkish Missile Request for Syria Border
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 9:30 am (UTC-5)
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the alliance would consider a request from Turkey to deploy Patriot anti-missile batteries along its border with Syria. Rasmussen said Monday the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had received no formal request from member-state Turkey so far but added that if one was made, “we will consider that as a […]
China Hopes Obama’s Burma Visit is Beneficial
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC-5)
China said on Monday that it hopes U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Burma will encourage “peace, stability and development” in East Asia. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the visit was a bilateral affair between the U.S. and Burma, but China hopes that the historic event would benefit the region as a whole. Mr. […]
Obama Tells Burma Reforms Have Much Further to Go
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 7:15 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Cambodia, where he will meet with leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations – ASEAN. Mr. Obama is scheduled to meet Monday evening with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. The White House says the president will raise U.S. concerns about Cambodia’s human rights record. The U.S. […]
Prominent Chinese Dissident Sentenced for Fraud
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 6:25 am (UTC-5)
A lawyer for a prominent Chinese dissident says his client has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for contract fraud. The lawyer said Li Befeng was sentenced Monday at a court in southwestern Sichuan province. Li was formerly imprisoned for five years for involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Li is a […]
Female Bomber Attacks Pakistan Politician
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 5:25 am (UTC-5)
Officials in northwest Pakistan say a female suicide bomber has detonated her explosives near the convoy of a former leader of the country’s largest Islamist political party. Authorities say the target of the blast was Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the former head of Jamaat-e-Islami, who was unharmed in the explosion. However, at least three of the […]
Obama Tells Burma Reforms Have Much Further to Go
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 5:05 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has told Burma that government reforms have just begun and have much further to go, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. In a speech Monday at the University of Rangoon, Mr. Obama said he had come to keep his promise and extend “the hand of […]
Obama Meets with Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 3:30 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has met with Burmese President Thein Sein and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in the country’s main city of Rangoon, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. After an hour-long meeting Monday, Mr. Obama, with President Thein Sein at his side, told reporters that the […]
Obama Meets with Burma President in Rangoon
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 2:15 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has met with Burmese President Thein Sein in the country’s main city, Rangoon, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. After the hour-long meeting Monday, Mr. Obama, with President Thein Sein at his side, told reporters that the process of democratic and economic reform in the […]
