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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood puts up second candidate
CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s top political force, announced it was putting up a second presidential candidate for May elections in case its first choice was not allowed to stand. The candidature of the Islamist group’s number two, Khairat al-Shater, looked to be in doubt. Shater was freed from…
Austerity cuts in aid to developing countries puts lives at risk: Oxfam
Faced with austerity budgets rich nations cut aid to developing countries by 2.7 percent last year, the OECD says, with aid group Oxfam warning this is putting lives at risk. The cut in development aid, the first for 14 years, looks likely to continue at a time when poor countries…
‘War on drugs’ has failed, say Latin American leaders
Watershed summit will admit that prohibition has failed, and call for more nuanced and liberalized tactics. A historic meeting of Latin America’s leaders, to be attended by Barack Obama, will hear serving heads of state admit that the war on drugs has been a failure and that alternatives to prohibition…
U.S., Europe to ‘demand’ Iran close nuclear facility
The United States and its European allies plan to demand the immediate closing by Iran and ultimate dismantling of a recently completed underground nuclear facility near the city of Qum, The New York Times reported. Citing unnamed US and European diplomats, the newspaper said the allies will also call at…
Japan deploys missile defenses in Tokyo
Japan has deployed missile batteries in Tokyo and dispatched destroyers carrying interceptor missiles as it boosts its defences against a planned North Korean rocket launch this month. Pyongyang says it will launch a satellite for peaceful scientific research between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th anniversary on April…
Rwanda leader accuses West of leniency for genocide suspects
Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Saturday accused unspecifiedWestern countries of failing to stop genocide suspects on their territory as his country marked the 18th anniversary of a Tutsi massacre. “As we remember those we lost, some of those who killed them are still moving freely in some capitals of the so-called free world,”…
Pakistan avalanche buried up to 135: military
An avalanche that smashed into a Pakistan army camp Saturday in aremote area in the Himalayas has buried as many as 135 people, including 124 soldiers, the military said. “As many as 135 persons including 124 army soldiers and 11 civilians… came under a huge snow slide early this morning,” said a statement from the…
Key Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi dies in US
Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi, a key figure in the pro-democracy movement behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has died in the United States, fellow dissident Wang Dan said Saturday. Fang, an internationally renowned professor of astrophysics, was granted refuge at the US embassy in Beijing for one year following the…
China shuts political websites in crackdown
Two Chinese political websites said Friday they had been ordered by authorities to shut for a month for criticising state leaders, the latest move in a broad government crackdown on the Internet. Officials told the Mao Flag website, named after late leader Mao Zedong, and the Utopia website, also known…
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh details U.S. training of Iranian terrorist group
Although the dissident Iranian group known as the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) has been listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department since 1997, there have been long-standing rumors that it was also being used by the United States as part of its efforts to destabilize the Iranian government. Investigative…
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