Mali president wounded during palace occupation
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s caretaker president Dioncounda Traore was beaten up and hospitalised after hundreds of protesters stormed his palace on Monday to demand his resignation, officials and several protesters said. Protesters occupy Mali's presidential palace in the capital Bamako, May 21, 2012. REUTERS/Adama Diarra A spokesman for More...
96 killed as Yemen soldier turns bomber
SANAA — A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa Monday, killing 96 troops and wounding around 300, a military official and medics More...
Lockerbie bomber to be buried, controversy lives on
TRIPOLI — Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, was to be buried Monday after he died of cancer protesting his innocence to the end. Megrahi's More...
Tomislav Nikolic beats Boris Tadic in Serbia run-off
Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic has been elected president of Serbia, beating liberal incumbent Boris Tadic. Nationalist Nikolic defeats Tadic for Serbian presidency ‎ Mr Tadic conceded victory after early predictions More...
Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies at 60
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after More...
6.0 earthquake in Italy kills 6, injures dozens
ROME — An earthquake early Sunday in north-central Italy killed six people, injured dozens and sent parts of historic castles, clock towers and churches tumbling down. Six killed in northern Italy quake Italian More...
Powerful Quake Rattles Northern Italy
One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some buildings and sent residents running More...
Thousands of anti-capitalist protesters march in Frankfurt
FRANKFURT — Some 20,000 people joined a march through the centre of the German financial capital of Frankfurt Saturday, protesting against European austerity programmes, police said. It was the only demonstration More...
Deadly blast hits near Italy school‎
A bomb exploded in front of a school in southern Italy today, killing a 16 year-old girl and wounding at least six others, two seriously, authorities have confirmed Italian policemen and fire fighters inspect in More...
Twitter rescue: Red Cross’ iVolunteer saves lives
For a long time now, Kenyan authorities have been agonising how to curb the spread of negative ethnicity through social media. Disaster response teams from Kenya Red Cross Nairobi Branch and Kenya Red Cross Society More...
