Latest News: “ Cotonou, Benin (IRIN) – Following weeks of disputed election results, Benin President Boni Yayi has re-settled into office, leading analysts and citizens to push him to address what they see as the country’s most pressing challenges: electoral and economic reform, forging links with opposition parties, and preparing the country to face the [...]
Latest News: “ Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – Like many other interest groups, the medical device industry met with White House officials in the run-up to the health care battle in Congress. But while insurers, pharmaceutical firms and even the American Medical Association made agreements trading their support for specific concessions, the device makers [...]
Latest News: “ Mbabane, Swaziland (IRIN) – The government of King Mswati III of Swaziland is accusing NGOs and foreign diplomats of consorting with “the enemy.” A new round of protests against sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch began on 12 April – the 38th anniversary of a decree issued by Mswati’s predecessor, King Sobhuza II, [...]
Latest News: “ Saleem Samad – AHN News Correspondent Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) – Despite electoral promises and an apex court’s ruling to restore secularism, the Bangladesh parliament is poised to pass an amendment to establish Islam as the state religion and legalize religious politics. The Sunni Muslim majority nation of 158 million will relax stringent [...]
Latest News: “ IRIN Staff Dili, Timor-Leste (IRIN) – Timor-Leste is on course to take on full security responsibilities after national forces officially assumed policing at end-March, according to the UN. The situation is now stable, Gyorgy Kakuk, a spokesman for the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), told IRIN. Presidential elections are expected to [...]
Latest News: “ The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, is sending out contradictory messages about its willingness to enter into a ceasefire with Israel, amid signs of a yawning rift between its military and political wings. “We are interested in calm, but we [...]
Latest News: “ The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, is sending out contradictory messages about its willingness to enter into a ceasefire with Israel, amid signs of a yawning rift between its military and political wings. “We are interested in calm, but we [...]
Latest News: “ The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, is sending out contradictory messages about its willingness to enter into a ceasefire with Israel, amid signs of a yawning rift between its military and political wings. “We are interested in calm, but we [...]
Latest News: “ AHN News Staff Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) – United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is on a two-day trip to Iraq, on Thursday hinted that Washington could extend its military presence beyond the agreed withdrawal date of December 31, 2011, if needed. “If folks here are going to want us to have [...]
Latest News: “ Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – A congressional hearing Tuesday turned into a critique of the Obama administration’s decision a day earlier to put alleged Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack conspirators on trial at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Until Monday, the Obama administration planned to [...]
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