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Tunisian protest pressures embattled government
Protesters pressured Tunisia’s new interim government to quit on Tuesday in the wake of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s ouster, as the cabinet prepared a major shake-up and a top US envoy visited. Hundreds of protesters from impoverished regions in central Tunisia chanted anti-government slogans in front of Prime…
France sends Rwandan Hutu to war crimes tribunal
France is transferring exiled Rwandan Hutu rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana to the International Criminal Court to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, prosecutors said on Tuesday. French authorities arrested Mbarushimana last October on a warrant issued by the ICC in September for charges of murders, rape, torture…
Violence erupts during Lebanon ‘day of rage’
Protests turned violent on Tuesday in Lebanon’s Sunni bastion of Tripoli as frenzied demonstrators torched an Al-Jazeera van while protesting the likely appointment of a Hezbollah-backed premier. Angry demonstrators set upon the vehicle, smashing the windshield and tearing down the satellite dish before setting it on fire, AFP reporters witnessed.…
Amnesty slams Shell over oil spills in Nigeria
Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth Tuesday said they had filed an official complaint against Ango-Dutch firm Shell for shirking responsibility for oil spills in Nigeria and wreaking havoc on the environment. A joint statement said Shell’s operations in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta breached the Organisation for Economic…
Even oil-rich Saudi Arabia looks to alternative energy
RIYADH — With vast oil reserves that are far from exhausted, Saudi Arabia, facing rising domestic energy demand that could cut into its oil exports, has decided to explore nuclear and renewable energy, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi has said. “We have started to take the required steps to utilize several…
UK report: World needs global food system overhaul
LONDON — The world needs fundamental changes to the global food system to feed the expanding population, according to a British government report out Monday on how to feed the planet until 2050. Governments must take action to change dietary habits, cut waste, reduce subsidies and embrace genetically modified food,…
2010 ‘one of worst’ years for disasters, UN says
GENEVA — 2010 was one of the worst years on record for natural disasters over the past two decades, leaving nearly 297,000 people dead, research for the United Nations showed on Monday. The devastating earthquake in Haiti a year ago accounted for about two thirds of the toll, killing more…
Google and Mozilla take steps to fight browser tracking
SAN FRANCISCO — Mozilla and Google on Monday took steps toward giving people more online privacy but each said hurdles remain to creating simple “Do Not Track” buttons for Web browsing software. Mozilla proposed adding a signal to its popular Firefox browser to let users automatically ask websites not to…
US heart disease costs to triple by 2030
The costs of treating heart disease in America, where one in three people has some form of the disease, are expected to triple by 2030 due to the growing population, researchers said Monday. While current costs of medical care for heart disease are around 273 billion dollars per year, that…
US man wrongfully jailed shares cautionary tale
In the 27 years Michael Anthony Green spent locked up in a cramped Texas prison cell for a crime he didn’t commit, he often dreamed of moments like this one. Green stood a free man on the stage of a Houston high school auditorium and looked out at row after…
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