Yemeni voters are going to the polls to elect a successor to President Ali Abdullah Saleh after a year-long uprising that forced him from power. Tuesday’s vote is the culmination of a deal — backed by the United States and brokered by Yemen’s Gulf neighbors — to replace Mr. Saleh with Vice President Abed Rabbo […]
North Korean Envoy in Beijing for US Nuclear Talks
Posted February 21st, 2012 at 12:05 am (UTC-5)
North Korea’s top envoy to the six-nation negotiations on its nuclear program has arrived in Beijing, where he will hold talks this week with his American counterpart. First Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan arrived in Beijing Tuesday, two days before his scheduled meeting with U.S. envoy Glen Davies. The meeting will be the third between […]
Yemen Votes Tuesday for President Saleh’s Replacement
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 11:25 pm (UTC-5)
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, stepping down after 33 years in office, has urged voters to turn out in large numbers to elect his successor in Tuesday’s single-candidate election. Mr. Saleh said Monday the poll was a moment to move the country towards peace and stability after the year-long popular uprising that forced him from […]
Yemen Votes Tuesday for President Saleh’s Replacement
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, stepping down after 33 years in office, has urged voters to turn out in large numbers to elect his successor in Tuesday’s single-candidate election. Mr. Saleh said Monday the poll was a moment to move the country towards peace and stability after the year-long popular uprising that forced him from […]
Red Cross Negotiating Humanitarian Cease-Fire in Syria
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is trying to broker a humanitarian cease-fire in Syria, as government tanks and troops mass around the opposition stronghold of Homs after bombarding the city for more than two weeks. ICRC chief spokeswoman Carla Haddad said Monday the Geneva-based agency has been in talks with Syrian […]
McCain: Egypt Working ‘Diligently’ to Resolve American NGO Case
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 5:40 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Senator John McCain says Egypt has assured him it is working “diligently” to resolve a dispute with Washington about American pro-democracy activists facing Egyptian prosecution for working illegally in the country. McCain said Monday he received the assurance as he led a delegation of five U.S. senators in talks with Egyptian military ruler Field […]
US Marks 50 Years Since Glenn’s Historic Orbit of Earth
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 4:20 pm (UTC-5)
The U.S. space agency is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first time an American orbited the Earth. John Glenn went around the planet three times in just under five hours on February 20, 1962, in a mission designed to see how man would react to the space environment. The former astronaut and ex-U.S. senator […]
Europe Finance Ministers Set to Approve New Greek Bailout
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 3:05 pm (UTC-5)
Eurozone finance ministers are set to approve a new $171-billion bailout for Greece, at a meeting in Brussels. French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said Monday that after months of negotiations over terms of the deal for debt-ridden Greece, an agreement is in sight for the country’s second bailout in two years. “We have all the […]
Hundreds Protest Against US in Pakistan
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 2:55 pm (UTC-5)
Hundreds of Pakistanis protested in the streets of Islamabad Monday against the possible reopening of NATO supply lines for the U.S.-led coalition forces fighting the Taliban inside Afghanistan. At one point, the crowd chanted that friends of America are “traitors.” Monday’s demonstration was the latest show of support for an alliance of Pakistani religious groups […]
Journalists Tour Devastated Japanese Nuclear Plant
Posted February 20th, 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC-5)
Operators at Japan’s earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant ushered journalists clad in protective clothing through the plant on Monday, just weeks ahead of the first anniversary of the March 11 disasters. Reporters from about 30 Japanese and foreign media organizations entered the wrecked facility by bus and were allowed to leave the vehicle […]
