Archive for December 2012
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India is investigating how Swedish-made weapons bought by its army turned up in Myanmar, a minister visiting Yangon said Saturday, denying New Delhi had supplied arms in contravention of EU sanctions. Sweden asked India on
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An international tribunal in Hamburg on Saturday called on Ghana to immediately release an Argentine navy tall ship, which it has held for more than two months in a debt dispute. The Libertad - a
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Venezuela's government reacted with fury on Friday to US President Barack Obama's criticism of ailing Hugo Chavez's "authoritarian" government at a time of national anxiety over his battle to recover from cancer surgery. In an
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Russia and Georgia set out a blueprint for the partial restoration of ties at their first direct talks about bilateral relations since the former Soviet republics fought a five-day war in 2008, the Georgian negotiator
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is recovering at home after suffering a concussion and plans to stay off work for the next week, a spokesman said Saturday. "While suffering from a stomach virus, Secretary
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Syrian warplanes bombed insurgents east of Damascus on Saturday and government forces pounded a town to the south-west, activists said, in a month-long and so far fruitless campaign to dislodge rebels around the capital. Jets
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The governor of Nigeria's Kaduna state, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, was killed on Saturday when his helicopter crashed in the southerly oil-producing Bayelsa state, an aide to the politician told Reuters. Bayelsa police spokesman Fidelis Odunna
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A small boat carrying migrants hoping to get to Greece sank near the eastern island of Lesvos early on Saturday, drowning 20 people, Greek police said. The boat had set off from the nearby Turkish
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A Colombian cargo ship sank off the country's Pacific coast, leaving eight people dead, the navy said Saturday. Another 14 people were plucked out of the water. The ship called the Claudia Alejandra ended up
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South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela on Saturday underwent a successful procedure to remove gall stones, a week after he was admitted to hospital for a lung infection, the office of the president said. "The
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