Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has criticized Switzerland after his wife and five aides were denied visas. Mr. Mugabe said Sunday he was “surprised, if not saddened” by the decision last week, which resulted in him canceling plans to attend a United Nations conference in Switzerland. He said the Swiss are showing they are “vicious,” and […]
Zimbabwe President Criticizes Switzerland for Visa Denials
Posted October 31st, 2011 at 8:10 am (UTC-5)
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Kyrgyzstan PM Leads Presidential Vote
Posted October 31st, 2011 at 6:15 am (UTC-5)
Kyrgyzstan’s prime minister, Almazbek Atambayev, is poised to become president after taking a commanding lead in the country’s first presidential election since last year’s bloody uprising ousted the government. International observers said that despite some flaws with voter lists and the tabulation process, they were cautiously optimistic about the future of democracy in Kyrgyzstan. With […]
Voters in Kyrgyzstan Cast Presidential Ballots
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
Voters in the turbulent Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan are going to the polls in the first presidential election since the deadly 2010 uprising that toppled former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Pre-election polls showed moderate ex-Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, a wealthy businessman from the north, leading 15 other candidates in Sunday’s multi-party election. His main challengers […]
US Group Calls For Film Boycott Over Human Rights in China
Posted October 28th, 2011 at 8:15 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. rights group is calling for a boycott of a U.S. film company because it is shooting a movie in a Chinese city where a leading activist is under house arrest. The group, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, says Relativity Media is filming the movie 21 and Over in Linyi, China. The city is where […]
Asian Markets Close Higher
Posted October 26th, 2011 at 7:30 am (UTC-5)
Asian stock markets closed mostly higher Wednesday. In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei index lost two-tenths of a percent to close at 8,748. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was up half of a percent to end at 19,066. Elsewhere, markets were higher in Seoul, Singapore, Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Shanghai, Taipei and Wellington, but lower in Manila […]
Survivors Rescued But Death Toll Rises From Turkey’s Earthquake
Posted October 25th, 2011 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
The death toll from Sunday’s earthquake in southeastern Turkey has risen to 432. At least 1,300 people are injured. The number of casualties from the 7.2 magnitude quake is expected to rise — with hundreds, even thousands, still trapped under the debris. Aid workers who continue to search for survivors rescued a two-week-old baby girl, […]
Khmer Rouge Defense Files Case Against PM
Posted October 24th, 2011 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
Defense lawyers for a top Khmer Rouge leader charged with genocide have filed a complaint against Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing him of interfering in the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal. Lawyers for Nuon Chea, the Number Two Khmer Rouge leader, say the prime minister and several other officials have interfered with the defendant’s right […]
Volkswagen Could Grab Car Industry Top Seller Honors
Posted October 24th, 2011 at 7:10 am (UTC-5)
Automobile industry analysts say Volkswagen is poised to become the world’s biggest carmaker this year, passing Toyota and General Motors. Volkswagen’s steady growth coupled with Toyota’s earthquake-related production downturn account for the change at the top of the auto industry. Industry experts say Volkswagen’s Chinese sales have grown by nearly 20-percent. Bloomberg News reports the […]
Mother of Late Pakistani PM Bhutto Dies
Posted October 23rd, 2011 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
Begum Nusrat Bhutto, the wife of one Pakistani prime minister and the mother of another, has died at the age of 82 after a long illness. Nusrat Bhutto’s life mirrored much of the turmoil in Pakistan’s politics. Her husband, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was the founder of the Pakistan People’s Party and served as Pakistani prime […]
Three Killed in Latest Attacks at Indonesian Copper Mine
Posted October 21st, 2011 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
Unidentified gunmen killed three people on Friday near an Indonesian copper mine, the latest in a series of violent outbreaks to hit the strike-ridden facility. Company officials and eyewitnesses say the gunmen opened fire on an access road to the Grasberg mine in eastern Papua province, killing a contract mine worker and two others. The […]
