Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras will have three days to form a coalition government, after his pro-bailout party won the most seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Samaras met Monday with Greek President Carolos Papoulias, who gave him a mandate to pursue coalition talks. The conservative New Democracy party won 30 percent of the vote to […]
Conservative Leader Gets 3 Days to Form Greek Coalition
Posted June 18th, 2012 at 6:55 am (UTC-5)
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European Stocks Fail to Sustain Rally After Greek Election
Posted June 18th, 2012 at 5:45 am (UTC-5)
Stocks in Europe gave up their initial gains Monday, failing to continue a rally seen in Asia after pro-bailout parties won enough votes in Greece’s parliament elections to form a government. Greece’s stock exchange was the exception, maintaining a 5-percent jump hours into trading. But elsewhere in Europe, fears about other struggling economies – including […]
Egyptians Vote in Historic Presidential Election
Posted June 17th, 2012 at 2:40 pm (UTC-5)
Egyptian voters are at the polls on the final day of a presidential runoff after massive protests led to former leader Hosni Mubarak’s resignation last year. Officials extended the polling deadline Sunday by two hours . Turnout was mixed in the first day of voting Saturday, and the mood appeared less enthusiastic than it was […]
French Socialists Projected to Win Parliamentary Election
Posted June 17th, 2012 at 2:30 pm (UTC-5)
French President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party has taken a solid majority in Sunday’s runoff parliamentary elections. Early polling results show the Socialists’ bloc taking up to 320 seats in the 577-member National Assembly, well above the 289 needed for a majority. The conservative UMP party of former president Nicolas Sarkozy was expected to win at […]
Blasts Rock 3 Churches in Northern Nigeria
Posted June 17th, 2012 at 9:00 am (UTC-5)
Explosions have rocked three churches in northern Nigeria, where the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for similar attacks. Authorities say all three blasts happened on Sunday in Kaduna state, which divides Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south. Two blasts hit churches in the city of Zaria, according to local officials. […]
Saudi Arabia’s Heir to Throne Dies
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 5:50 pm (UTC-5)
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud died Saturday, eight months after becoming heir to the throne. He was in his late 70s. A statement carried by state media said Prince Nayef “died outside” Saudi Arabia. News reports said he died in the Swiss city of Geneva, where he recently traveled to seek treatment […]
Light Turnout in 1st Day of Egypt’s Presidential Vote
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC-5)
Egyptians began casting ballots Saturday in a two-day presidential run-off that pits a prime minister from former president Hosni Mubarak’s era against a Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Ahmed Shafiq, the former prime minister, is vying with the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi to become Egypt’s first president since the huge outpouring of anti-government protests that forced Mubarak’s to […]
UN Observers Suspend Syrian Mission; Opposition Says Mission ‘Has Failed’
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
Escalating violence is forcing United Nations observers to suspend their mission in Syria “until further notice.” The head of the U.N. observer force announced the decision in a statement Saturday. Major General Robert Mood cited an increase in violence over the last 10 days and said operations would resume only when he sees fit. “U.N. […]
Dual Blasts Target Iraqi Pilgrims; 26 Dead
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC-5)
Two car bombs in Baghdad scattered body parts and turned vehicles into burned-out shells, killing 26 in the latest in a wave of attacks targeting Shi’ite pilgrims. The blasts struck the city’s Kazimiyah neighborhood Saturday, just a few kilometers from a shrine to revered Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Haider Ghareeb […]
Blast Kills 25 in Pakistan
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 7:00 am (UTC-5)
Officials in northwest Pakistan say a bomb planted in a pickup truck has killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 50 others in the tribal region along the Afghan border. Authorities say the bomb exploded Saturday near a bus stand at a crowded bazaar in Landi Kotal in the Khyber tribal district. Several […]
