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Egypt protest seeks to end military courts
CAIRO — Several hundred activists took part in a one-day hunger strike in Cairo on Sunday to protest the ruling military council’s continued use of military courts to try civilians. The protesters said the symbolic action was intended to show solidarity with hundreds of prisoners now facing trials before military…
G8 pledges to lift 50 million Africans out of poverty
G8 leaders on Saturday pledged to lift millions of Africans out of poverty by promoting investments in sustainable agriculture. “Today we commit to launch a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to accelerate the flow of private capital to African agriculture, take to scale new technologies and other innovations…
Spain’s ‘indignants’ have huge support
Spain’s “indignant” protest movement against economic inequality and spending cuts continues to enjoy widespread support a year after it was launched, a poll published on Sunday showed. Overall 68 percent of Spaniards said they had sympathy for the movement, compared to 66 percent who expressed that opinion in June 2011…
Libyan Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing over Scotland in which 270 people were killed, died on Sunday, his brother told AFP. “He died an hour ago,” Abdelhakim al-Megrahi said, putting the time of death at shortly after 1.00 pm (1100 GMT). Doctors had…
Obama says world will try for Burma reform
President Barack Obama, fresh from easing US sanctions on Myanmar, said at the G8 summit Saturday that world powers would do all they could to promote the country’s political reforms. Obama lifted some investment restrictions on the nominally civilian-ruled nation this week, hoping to reward President Thein Sein for taking steps toward political change, and to encourage…
First tropical storm of season forms off U.S. east coast
The first tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane seasonformed Saturday off the southeastern US coast with winds of 45 miles (75 kilometers) per hour, US weather forecasters said. Dubbed “Alberto,” the storm was 140 miles (225 kilometers) southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, moving southwest at a speed of three miles (six kilometers) per…
Jewish settlers ‘uproot trees near Hebron’
Dozens of Palestinian olive trees and grape vines were destroyed and anti-Arab graffiti was daubed in groves of the West Bank villageof Beit Omar, residents said on Saturday. The villagers said the attack had taken place on Friday night or early Saturday and blamed it on Jewish settlers of nearby Bat Ayin settlement, which…
Police: 20,000 anti-capitalist protesters march in Frankfurt
More than 20,000 people on Saturday joined a march through the centre of the German financial capital Frankfurt, police said, in a protest against European austerity programmes. It was the only demonstration of the anti-capitalist movement known as “Blockupy Frankfurt” authorised by the city and justice authorities. Previous protests over…
Artists lead thousands against Putin in Moscow
Dozens of Russian artists with brooms in hand carted their most expressive works across the boulevards of Moscow on Saturday in a show of exasperation at Vladimir Putin’s return to a third Kremlin term. Several thousand Muscovites joined them in a second such intellectual walk in a week. More than 10,000 had supported…
Charred notebooks and tears at Italy school bombing
Charred notebooks lay strewn at the scene of a deadly bomb blast outside a school in Brindisi in southern Italy on Saturday, as thousands took part in an emotional demonstration in the city. “There was huge black smoke, debris all over the place, piercing screams,” said Corradino De Paolis, a passer-by who rushed…
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