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(Buenos Aires) – Thousands of women and girls in Argentina suffer needlessly every year because of negligent or abusive reproductive health care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Goodness, I thought I’d witnessed enough xenophobia in South Africa against Zimbabweans and other African nationals. Sadly it is here too. So how should the government of Kenya deal with this? …
Prefix taps into Africa’s digital realm, Bontle Moeng reports: “Prefix Technology, a software design company is developing mobile applications and content management tools (cms) for Africa’s online publishing companies. …
Prefix taps into Africa’s digital realm, Bontle Moeng reports: “Prefix Technology, a software design company is developing mobile applications and content management tools (cms) for Africa’s online publishing companies. …
(New York) – The Afghan government should hold accountable those who seek to impose brutal customary punishments such as baad, where women and girls are given as compensation for crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
Israel and the newly independent country of South Sudan have established diplomatic relations, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – It took a two week-long cottage cheese rebellion to get Israelis to question the power of the country’s tycoons.
TORONTO – The purchase of a nine per cent stake in Ireland’s last private bank by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is “just a regular insurance investment” but one the investment company found very attractive despite economic troubles in the country, Fairfax CEO Prem Watsa told investors Friday.
Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency is overseeing the sale of helicopters and seizing jewels belonging to debtors as it chases loan repayments and a 1 billion-euro ($1.4 billion) profit.
Kurdish rebels have killed a member of Iran’s Basij militia after attacking a rural base in the western province of Kurdistan, Mehr news agency reported on Friday.
Iran says a magnitude 4.6 earthquake has rattled a remote region in the southeast.
The Obama administration accused Iran on Thursday of entering into a “secret deal” with an al-Qaida offshoot that provides money and recruits for attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Treasury Department designated six members of the unit as terrorists subject to U.S. sanctions.
Are Washington and Tehran headed for a showdown? For much of the past decade, conventional wisdom has held that Iran’s dogged pursuit of a nuclear capability – carried out in spite of mounting pressure from the international community – will ultimately become a casus belli for Washington. Early on in his tenure, President George W. Bush even went so far as to declare that the U.S. “will not …
Iran is lagging on equipping a bunker with centrifuges that will enrich uranium closer to weapons-grade but plans to boost output by using more machines than originally planned, diplomats tell The Associated Press.
India’s top court on Friday halted iron ore extraction in a southern state home to some of the country’s biggest deposits after revelations about a $3.6-billion mining fraud.
India’s main opposition party, the Bhatariya Janata Party (BJP), has asked its most prominent member in the south to stand down after he was formally implicated in an illegal mining scandal. The scandal could harm the party’s corruption-busting agenda.
India expects to make a first payment to Iran through Turkey for billions of dollars in unpaid crude oil bills as it seeks to avert a cut-off in fuel shipments, the oil minister said Friday.
France will probably need extra action to cut its public deficit in 2012 and 2013 as falling growth threatens to complicate economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned Thursday that failure to resolve the US debt crisis would likely raise “doubts” about the dollar’s status as the world’s prime reserve currency.
The IMF praised Spanish government’s “strong and wide-ranging” response to its economic crisis Friday but warned that many of the underlying problems have not been fully addressed.
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission will appoint Ashley Alder, the Asia head of law firm Herbert Smith LLP, as its new chief executive officer, according to a person familiar with the decision.
The family of Hong Kong billionaire Cheng Yu-tung bought five luxury hotels, including Manhattan’s Carlyle, from Maritz, Wolff & Co. and Rosewood Corp. for about $570 million.
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission will appoint Ashley Alder, the Asia head of law firm Herbert Smith LLP, as its new chief executive officer.
Greece has beaten China 9-8 to win the gold medal in women’s water polo at the world championships.
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece wants to quickly complete a voluntary bond exchange and is confident of IMF support as long as it fulfills its economic adjustment targets, the country’s finance minister said on Thursday.
Greece defeated China 9-8 Friday to win its first gold medal in women’s water polo at the world aquatic championships.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Greece will get its next 8 billion euro tranche of emergency loans from the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund in September as planned, provided it meets agreed criteria, the spokesman for the Eurogroup President said on Friday.
Britta Steffen of Germany dropped out of the world championships after swimming the slowest qualifying time in the 100-meter freestyle on Thursday.
Malacañang is in the process of drafting a Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill that balances the interest of the government to withhold sensitive information and at the same time not curtail the right of the people to be informed.
France Telecom SA (FTE) , France’s largest phone company, reported a 2.2 percent decline in first-half profit before some items on higher costs in its home market. The company said it has started a sale process for its Swiss unit.
The newest report from the French investigation bureau BEA finds that confusion rained in the cockpit as the doomed Air France flight 447 fell out of the sky and into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. A combination of the crew’s actions, malfunctioning equipment, and bad weather seems to have sealed its fate. A few facts of the disaster are clear through previous reports from the flight data …
JYVASKYLA, Finland: French driver Sebastien Loeb claimed two out of three stages on day one of the Rally of Finland on Thursday as he took his Citroen to a 2.8-second lead over team-mate Sebastien Ogier.
French driver Sebastien Loeb claimed two out of three stages on day one of the Rally of Finland on Thursday as he took his Citroen to a 2.8sec lead over team-mate Sebastien Ogier.
HELSINKI, July 29 (Reuters) – Frenchman Sebastien Loeb in a Citroen heads compatriot and team mate Sebastien Ogier by 1.5 seconds after the second day of the Rally of Finland on Friday with Finland’s Jari-Matti Latvala third in his Ford Fiesta.
July 29 (Reuters) – Results on the second day of the Rally of Finland on Friday. 1. Sebastien Loeb (France) Citroen 1:29:01.300 2. Sebastien Ogier (France) Citroen +00:01.500 3. Jari-Matti Latvala (Finland) Ford 00:02.600 4. Petter Solberg (Norway) Citroen 00:29.200 5. Mads Ostberg (Norway) Ford 01:00.100 6. Mikko Hirvonen (Finland) Ford 01:28.700 7. Daniel Sordo (Spain) Mini 01:36.200 8. Kris …
Steven Pifer writes:Tymoshenko trial a farce; seen a plot to sideline political opponent. Western diplomats in Kyiv believe that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych attaches strategic priority to bringing Ukraine closer to Europe, particularly the European Union.
Natixis (KN) Asset Management prefers Spanish bonds to their Italian counterparts, saying terms of this month’s European Union financial support deal will be of greater benefit to Spain and its troubled regional lenders.
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European stocks slid, dragging the Stoxx Europe 600 Index to the biggest monthly drop since March, as U.S. lawmakers called off a vote on a Republican plan for raising the nation’s debt limit. Asian shares and U.S. index futures declined.
Thierry Henry says Major League Soccer will not attract players from Europe while they are at the peak of their careers as long as teams are forced to operate under a salary cap.
The Ministers of Justice of the European Union within the framework of activities related to the Polish presidency of the EU arrived in the Polish city of Sopot.
German unemployment dropped in July for a 25th straight month as company recruitment plans continued to hold up in the face of weakening global demand and Europe’s debt crisis.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A U.N. Monitoring group report seen by Reuters on Thursday said Eritrea was behind a bomb plot in Ethiopia and that the Red Sea state bankrolled Somali al Shabaab rebels.
AFP/Addis Ababa Ethiopia’s leasing of vast swathes of arable land to foreign and state-owned firms risks adding to the millions of people already requiring food aid in the drought-struck region, a US based think-tank warned yesterday.
Ethiopia’s leasing of vast swathes of arable land to foreign and state-owned firms risks adding to the millions of people already requiring food aid in the drought-struck region, a US based think-tank warned on Friday.
Stuart Broad again proved a thorn in India’s side with the bat as he rescued England from total collapse on the first day of the second Test at Trent Bridge here on Friday.
England will look for more of the same against India in the second Test at Trent Bridge starting on Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of Islamists packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in a show of force that angered secularists as clashes in Sinai between security and apparent Islamists killed four, including a military captain.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Hafez Al Mirazi spent weeks preparing for his new primetime talk show on state television. But one week before “Cairo Local Time” was scheduled to start, an army general ordered it put on hold.
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