Thursday, January 19, 2012

ITALY: Concordia rescue resumes amid fears for environment

ITALY: Concordia rescue resumes amid fears for environment

ITALY: Concordia rescue resumes amid fears for environment

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:10 PM PST

Divers resumed their search for bodies on board the stricken Costa Concordia on Thursday as salvage workers sought to prevent the ship's 2,380 tons of fuel from leaking into the Tuscan marine sanctuary where the vessel ran aground last week.

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USA: Perry quits Republican race and endorses Gingrich

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:29 PM PST

Texas Governor Rick Perry has pulled out of the race to be the Republican nominee for the 2012 US presidential election, calling on his supporters to rally behind conservative candidate Newt Gingrich.

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DR CONGO: Former NBA star caught up in gold-smuggling scandal

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:17 PM PST

Dikembe Mutombo's reputation as a champion of humanitarian causes appears in jeopardy as the former basketball star finds himself at the heart of a gold-smuggling scandal in his native Democratic Republic of Congo.

PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Israeli army arrests head of Palestinian parliament

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:41 PM PST

Palestinian parliamentary speaker and Hamas member Aziz Dweik has been arrested by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, according to a Hamas source. Israel has so far not commented.

NIGERIA: Christmas Day bomb suspect's 'great escape' raises eyebrows

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:45 AM PST

When Nigerian police admitted Wednesday that the top suspect in the deadly Christmas Day bombings had escaped police custody, it beggared belief across many sections of Nigerian society and got the rumour mills rolling.

LIBERIA: Liberia's Charles Taylor 'worked for CIA'

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:28 AM PST

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor had a close relationship with the CIA over "several decades", according to a report in US daily the Boston Globe. Taylor is awaiting a verdict in a war crimes trial in The Netherlands.

USA: Camera pioneer Eastman Kodak files for bankruptcy

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:17 PM PST

Pioneering US firm Eastman Kodak, which popularised photography for the average household, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday. Kodak has been struggling in the age of digital cameras and camera phones, laying off 47,000 employees since 2003.

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FRANCE: Strauss-Kahn’s wife to run French Huffington Post

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:19 AM PST

Anne Sinclair, former anchor of France's most popular TV show and the wife of shamed former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been chosen to run the French version of American news website The Huffington Post.

ON THE BLOGS: DSK’s wife: ‘No different from a woman who wears the burqa’

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:44 AM PST

Publishing the first interview with Anne Sinclair since the arrest of her husband in May, French magazine Elle has sparked outcry among some French women, who describe her as both a "victim" and an "accomplice" for standing by her shamed partner.

SOMALIA: Deadly blast hits makeshift camp in Mogadishu

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:33 AM PST

A bomb blast killed six people near a camp for displaced people in Mogadishu on Thursday, hours after insurgents hurled two hand grenades at a United Nations compound in Somalia's restless capital.

USA: Santorum squeezes past Romney in final Iowa count

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:37 AM PST

Republican Party officials in Iowa have proclaimed Rick Santorum the winner of the state's January 3 caucuses by a margin of 34 votes, two weeks after handing rival Mitt Romney the narrowest of victories.

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SYRIA: Syrian forces withdraw from town of Zabadani

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:16 AM PST

Syrian army tanks have withdrawn from the town of Zabadani outside Damascus, leaving it under opposition control, activists said Thursday. The town has seen heavy clashes between government troops and army defectors in the past six days.

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TUNISIA: Tunisian students launch hunger strike against veil ban

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:33 AM PST

Five Tunisian students launched a hunger strike Wednesday against a university ban on the niqab, or full face veil. A spokesman for an ultraconservative Muslim group at the University of Manouba said the five were under medical supervision.

On The Observers: Grim video casts shadow on methods of Free Syrian Army

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:59 AM PST

  A video has sparked a flurry of reactions among Syrian bloggers: it shows the brutal interrogation of an officer captured by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a combat force made up of soldiers who have deserted the regular army to support anti-government protests. When questioned about the video's content, an army deserter with links to the FSA suggested that in times such as these, the ends justify the means. Read more...

USA: Obama rejects proposed Keystone oil pipeline

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 10:46 PM PST

US President Barack Obama rejected on Wednesday a proposed Keystone oil pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas, saying he could not assess its environmental impact by a Feb. 21 deadline put forth by Republicans, which Obama called "arbitrary".

AFGHANISTAN: Civilians killed as suicide bomber targets Kandahar airport

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:14 AM PST

At least six civilians were killed in a suicide attack near the gates to Kandahar airport, police sources said on Thursday. A Taliban spokesman said the bomber's target was foreign forces operating in the area.

PAKISTAN: Pakistani premier defends against contempt of court charges

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:37 AM PST

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani defended himself Thursday against contempt of court charges involving his alleged refusal to reopen corruption probes into the country's president, who the ruling party says is immune from prosecution.

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CINEMA: Independent cinema's Sundance Film Festival opens

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:20 AM PST

The 28th annual Sundance Film Festival, seen as a celebration of US independent film and an alternative to the commercialism of Hollywood, begins Thursday. Founded by veteran actor Robert Redford, the event takes place in the mountains of Utah.

THE INTERVIEW: Steven Kull, Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:29 AM PST

As tensions grow over Iran's nuclear ambitions with US sanctions against Tehran's central bank and recent missiles tests by Iran, Steven Kull explains why he hopes that the Middle East could still become a nuclear weapons-free zone.

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BURMA: Is democracy dawning in Burma?

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:29 AM PST

Just over a year ago the leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement Aung San Suu Kyi was released from jail. Today her country seems to be heading full steam ahead towards democracy. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé recently visited her in Burma. Shortly after Suu Kyi registered as a candidate for a parliamentary by-election in April. So is a Burmese spring on the horizon?

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