Somalia’s new president is safe after two suicide bombers attacked a Mogadishu hotel where he was speaking. VOA correspondent Gabe Joselow, who was at the site of the attack, says two bombs detonated outside the Jazeera Hotel Wednesday as Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Kenyan Foreign Minister Samson Ongeri talked to reporters inside. Militant […]
Somali President Safe After Hotel Bombing
Posted September 12th, 2012 at 9:35 am (UTC-5)
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US Ambassador, 3 Staff Killed in Libya Attack
Posted September 12th, 2012 at 8:00 am (UTC-5)
The United States ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed after a mob stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern city Benghazi late Tuesday. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, a career U.S. foreign service officer and one of the most experienced U.S. envoys in the region, had been in the country for less than […]
Factory Fires Kill More than 125 in Pakistan
Posted September 12th, 2012 at 2:55 am (UTC-5)
Fires broke out at two factories in Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least 125 people. More than 100 people were killed in the southern port city of Karachi when a blaze ripped through a garment factory. The death toll rose early Wednesday after authorities pulled more bodies from the building. Many of the dead were found […]
US Consulate Staffer Killed in Protest in Libya
Posted September 11th, 2012 at 7:55 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. national was killed and another wounded Tuesday in Libya as a group of militants attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, during a protest against a film they say offends Islam. An angry mob gathered outside the consulate and set fire to the building. The U.S. State Department confirmed the attack and said that […]
China Silent on Status of Ships Sent to Japanese-Controlled Islands
Posted September 11th, 2012 at 7:50 pm (UTC-5)
The status of two Chinese government ships sent to assert Beijing’s claim over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea remained a mystery early Wednesday, with no word from either government on the ships’ whereabouts. China’s official news agency Xinhua reported that the two China Marine Surveillance ships “reached the waters around” the disputed islands […]
US Embassy Staffer Killed in Protest in Libya
Posted September 11th, 2012 at 7:40 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. national was killed and another wounded Tuesday in Libya as a group of militants attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, during a protest against a film they say offends Islam. An angry mob gathered outside the consulate and set fire to the building. The U.S. State Department confirmed the attack and said that […]
Rocket Attack on US Base Kills 3 Afghans
Posted September 11th, 2012 at 6:25 am (UTC-5)
Officials say a rocket attack on a U.S. base has killed three Afghans. NATO spokesman Michael Cole told VOA that several rockets hit Bagram Airfield in Parwan province late Monday, destroying one helicopter and damaging several others. Afghan officials said Tuesday those killed inside the aircraft were Afghan intelligence agents. Afghan and international service members […]
Obama Edges Ahead of Romney in Latest Surveys
Posted September 10th, 2012 at 1:30 pm (UTC-5)
New political surveys in the U.S. show that President Barack Obama has, at least for the moment, edged ahead of Republican Mitt Romney as the two candidates enter the final eight weeks of the country’s presidential election campaign. The two candidates had been virtually tied in surveys a week ago after completion of Mr. Romney’s […]
Somalia Parliament Votes for New President
Posted September 10th, 2012 at 11:55 am (UTC-5)
Four candidates remain in Somalia’s presidential election, after parliament cast ballots in a first-round vote Monday. Incumbent President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed led the pack, followed by PDP party leader Hassan Sheikh Mahamud, incumbent Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and Abdulkadir Osoble Ali, a businessman and U.S. citizen. Parliament was due to go straight into the […]
UN Chief Slams Syrian Government, Rebels
Posted September 10th, 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC-5)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the Syrian government and rebel groups for choosing violence and force rather than dialogue. In an opening speech Monday to a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mr. Ban also rebuked the U.N. Security Council for failing to take a unified stance to end the […]
