News from Africa

Puntland regional President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole received 15 security vehicles from representatives of the Italian embassy in Somalia on Sunday (April 21st). ...

News from South America

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Venezuela: all legitimate doubts of Capriles

Henrique Capriles continues to ask for the manual recount of the votes in the last elections in Venezuela and does addressing the major international media since those Venezuelans are all in the hands of the procedure, and all opposition voices have been silenced by Hugo Chavez. ...

Honduras: Lobo said that Zelaia wanted to stay in office

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Honduras’ president said Saturday that ousted leader Manuel Zelaya once told him point-blank he wanted to stay in power despite a constitutional ban on re-election — the very ambition that opponents alleged to justify the coup that toppled Zelaya. ...

Hugo Chavez dismisses criticism from OAS chief

President Hugo Chavez on past week dismissed criticism by the head of the Organisation of American States, who expressed concern about a new law granting Venezuela’s leader power to enact laws by decree. ...

Venezuela: Chavez rejects University Law as Venezuelan National Assembly begins new term

By Tamara Pearson, Venezuelanalysis – The new legislative term of 2011-2016 in Venezuela began yesterday, with the National Assembly voting on a new president, revolutionary Fernando Soto Rojas. The new assembly has more opposition legislators, and new internal...

Afghanistan – Iran border: massacre of the Afghan citizen, but nobody talks about it. Why?

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Frontier Afghanistan – Iran: a massacre of Afghans has been committed in recent days by the Iranian border guards in the West, but no one broke the news. The fact has emerged thanks to the fact...

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Pakistan: court orders arrest of Musharraf

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Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was today ordered to be arrested by a court here in a case over the imposition of emergency rule in 2007, but evaded being taken into custody with his bodyguards whisking him away before the police could act. ...

Afghanistan: hunger strike over afghan jail conditions

By Abdul Latif Sahak – Prisoners in the only jail in the Balkh province of northern Afghanistan have launched a series of hunger strikes to pursue claims that overcrowding is making life unbearable. ...

Chinese dams in Burma: people forced to flee

Three agreements on future dam construction in Burma were signed on Friday last week at a ceremony in Rangoon, with plans inked for a second dam in the Shweli region of Shan state. ...

Chemical Weapons: Russia and the United States late on their destruction

Russia will miss the 2012 deadline for destroying all of its chemical weapons, officials said yesterday as they inaugurated a major plant to dispose of them. ...

Italian citizen illegally held in Santo Domingo. The embassy does not care

We have already discussed in the past (here, here and here) in the case of Vulcano Luciano, who was arrested illegally in Santo Domingo over a year ago and literally left to its fate by Italian institutions....

U.N. climate change conference: some small step forward

The U.N. climate change conference adopted a package of measures Saturday focused on tempering the effects of a warming planet, breathing new life into a process that many had declared moribund. ...

Climate Change: what hope from Cancun?

By Damaris E. Mateche – The 16th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) takes place from November 29th to December 10th in Cancun, Mexico. Representatives...

Haiti needs soap to win the cholera epidemic

By William Booth (Boston.com) – The difference between life and death in Haiti is now an ordinary bar of soap. Soap could slow the terrifying cholera outbreak that is quickly spreading and has entered...

Iranian missiles in Venezuela. They can hit the U.S.

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During the election campaign none of the staff of President Obama pulled out the speech and even the staff at Romney did, despite Congress had addressed the issue in July. We are talking about the invasive...

Obama lied about the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens

Other than death by asphyxiation. The truth about Christopher Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya, emerges from some video in the hands of the Libyan police and which broke the Francenews24. The ambassador’s...

Islam: the untouchable red line is not the Prophet but are Human Rights

Let’s understand one thing: how would you rate you an old man of 50 years who marries a girl of seven years and uses her sexual act when there are nine? Anywhere in the civilized world would speak...

Death U.S. ambassador in Libya: Obama, now open your eyes

The attack on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya culminated with the murder of the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, another diplomat and two marines, is a signal must be strong, very strong,...