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London mayor slaps congestion fee on Obama’s limo
LONDON — London Mayor Boris Johnson will ask Barack Obama to pay the congestion charge for his security vehicle “The Beast”, according to the Evening Standard newspaper. The Mayor told the Standard each car in the US President’s motorcade will be billed for £10 ($16), including the heavily-armoured Cadillac, which…
Sudan ‘open’ to talks over violence in Abyei
KHARTOUM (AFP) – Khartoum’s chief Abyei negotiator has said the northern government is “open” to negotiations with south Sudan over the contested border region and announced talks will resume on Saturday. “We are open to negotiations,” Al-Dirdiri Mohammed Ahmed, the National Congress Party’s chief negotiator on Abyei, told AFP. Dirdiri…
Air France jet crashed nose-up after four-minute fight to stay aloft
PARIS (Reuters) – Pilots wrestled with the controls of an Air France airliner for more than four minutes before it plunged into the Atlantic with its nose up, killing all 228 people on board, French investigators said on Friday. The 2009 emergency began with a stall warning two and a…
2,000 flee Mexico town amid drug gang violence
MORELIA, Mexico — A clash between rival gangs left 29 dead in Nayarit, western Mexico, while more fighting further south has prompted the exodus of almost 2,000 people, local authorities said Thursday. The clash on a highway in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit late Wednesday was one of the…
Seven US soldiers killed in Afghan blasts
KABUL – Seven soldiers killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan on Thursday were Americans, the Pentagon confirmed, adding that they died after successive blasts struck them at the same location. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said the soldiers were killed by two blasts in Shorabak district in Kandahar province.…
British astronomers complete largest-ever map of local universe
British astronomers announced Wednesday they had completed the largest-ever map of the local universe using a type of lens and filter that sees light differently than conventional telescopes. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth called the image, formally titled the 2MASS Redshift Survey, one of their greatest accomplishments yet, noting…
U.S. orders non-emergency personnel out of Yemen
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States announced it was ordering family members of US government employees and certain non-emergency personnel to leave Yemen. The move by the State Department came amid calls for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down and as fierce fighting between security forces and dissident…
Greenpeace warns of radioactive sea life off Japan
TOKYO (AFP) – Environmental group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation far above legal limits. The anti-nuclear group, which conducted the coastal and offshore tests this month, criticised Japanese authorities for their “continued inadequate…
Serbia arrests ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia said on Thursday it had arrested Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to seek to join the European Union. “On behalf of the Republic of Serbia I can announce the…
Two environmentalists gunned down in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — A husband and wife team of environmentalists have been killed by gunmen in Brazil’s northern Amazon state of Para, one of the most restive regions in the country due to land disputes, officials said Wednesday. Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff ordered an immediate federal investigation to find…
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