Tuesday, January 10, 2012

US POLITICS: Mitt Romney wins New Hampshire primary

US POLITICS: Mitt Romney wins New Hampshire primary

US POLITICS: Mitt Romney wins New Hampshire primary

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:49 PM PST

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has won Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican primary, his second victory in his fight to become his party's candidate for the November presidential election.

RWANDA: French inquiry a ‘vindication’ for Rwandan president

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:43 PM PST

Rwanda on Tuesday hailed a French report into the 1994 plane crash that killed former leader Juvenal Habyarimana as a vindication for President Paul Kagame, saying the downing of the plane was "a coup d'état" by extremist Hutus.

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NIGERIA: Protests over end of fuel subsidies enter second day

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:52 AM PST

A nationwide strike in Nigeria over the end of fuel subsidies entered a second day Tuesday after clashes with police left at least two dead on Monday. The cost-saving move to end subsidies on January 1 has more than doubled petrol prices.

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SYRIA: 'Hundreds killed' since Arab League mission began

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:33 PM PST

A UN official told the Security Council Tuesday that 400 people have died in Syrian unrest since Arab League monitors began a monitoring mission on December 26. The UN says more than 5,000 people have died since anti-regime protests began in March.

On The Observers: First-ever video proof documenting murder of suspected Gbagbo militants

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 12:37 PM PST

  FRANCE 24's Observers Team has been able to obtain and verify video documenting the brutal murder of three suspected militants loyal to former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo in Abobo, a suburb just outside of the main city of Abidjan. The footage constitutes the first authenticated images of an act of violence against suspected Gbagbo supporters during last year's post-electoral conflict. Read more...

LIBYA: ICC extends deadline on deciding fate of Seif al-Islam

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:44 PM PST

The International Criminal Court has extended a deadline to January 23 for Libya to decide whether to transfer Seif al-Islam (pictured), son of late leader Muammar Gaddafi, to The Hague, where he is wanted for crimes against humanity.

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PAKISTAN: Deadly bomb blasts strike tribal Khyber region

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:01 AM PST

A bomb explosion in the restive tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed at least 35 people and wounded over 60 others. Tribesmen said members of the pro-government Zakhakhel tribal militia were the target of the attack.

SYRIA: Syria's Bashar al-Assad vows to hold on to power

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 09:26 AM PST

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad gave a rare public address Tuesday, denying that he ordered troops to fire on civilians during anti-regime protests that have rocked the nation since March and blaming a "foreign conspiracy" for the unrest.

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HUNGARY: Hungary offers to scrap disputed legislation

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 07:38 AM PST

Hungary's government said Monday it is ready to consider altering controversial legislation in accordance with European Commission requests, officials said Tuesday, as Budapest looks to secure a multibillion-euro financing deal from the EU and IMF.

EUROZONE: Merkel, Lagarde to meet on eurozone debt crisis

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:14 AM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and IMF chief Christine Lagarde were set to meet Tuesday in Berlin for an "informal exchange of views". The meeting is one of a series with financial and political leaders to strategise over the eurozone debt crisis.

EGYPT: Egypt votes in final round of legislative elections

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 06:07 AM PST

Egyptians begin voting Tuesday in a second round run-off, the third and final round of parliamentary elections. Egypt's two main Islamist parties have won close to two-thirds of the vote in previous rounds.

NIGERIA: Mosque attack leaves five dead in south-western Nigeria

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 10:06 AM PST

The Nigerian Red Cross says five people died in an attack on a mosque and a school in Benin City in Nigeria's mainly Christian south on Tuesday. Muslim-majority northern Nigeria has seen a spate of attacks on churches in recent weeks.

FRANCE: End of the line as SeaFrance goes into 'total liquidation'

Posted: 09 Jan 2012 12:24 PM PST

Cross-channel ferry service SeaFrance will be "definitively liquidated" at a cost of 800 jobs and amid accusations that the government was motivated by political expediency and that trade unions had proved inflexible.

GUINEA-BISSAU: Opposition rejects National Assembly chief as interim president

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 09:00 AM PST

A coalition of Guinea-Bissau opposition groups on Tuesday rejected a proposal for the head of the National Assembly, Raimundo Pereira (pictured), to become interim leader following the death of President Malam Bacai Sanha in Paris on Monday.

TUNISIA: Jobless Tunisian dies days after self-immolation

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:31 AM PST

Ammar Gharsalla, a 48-year old unemployed father of three, died Monday of burn wounds that arose from his self-immolation last week, as part of a protest outside the Gafsa government office to highlight unemployment in Tunisia.

COLOMBIA: Colombia's FARC rebels 'willing to negotiate with government'

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 12:01 AM PST

Timoleon Jimenez, the new leader of Columbia's Marxist FARC rebels, issued an internet statement saying the group would be willing to negotiate with President Juan Manuel Santos to discuss such issues as democracy and the economy.

CES 2012: Why it's all about hardware

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 02:01 AM PST

UNITED STATES: US primaries kick off in New Hampshire

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 07:12 AM PST

In New Hampshire, the first primary of the US election season is taking place. Mitt Romney may be way ahead in opinion polls but his rivals Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and others are campaigning hard to unseat him. Our Washington correspondents Philip Crowther and Stan de Saint Hippolyte have been following all the candidates on the campaign trail and bring us this report.

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NIGERIA: Nigeria paralysed by nationwide strike

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 07:20 AM PST

The first day of a nationwide strike brought Africa's most populous nation to a standstill. Thousands took to the streets of Nigeria's economic capital, Lagos, and other cities to voice their anger over the removal of fuel subsidies, which has doubled petrol prices and increased the cost of food and transport. President Goodluck Jonathan is also trying to manage heightened tensions between the country's Muslims and Christians.

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THE INTERVIEW: Gershom Gorenberg, Israeli historian and journalist

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 05:38 AM PST

Annette Young talks to Israeli historian and journalist, Gershom Gorenberg, who has just published a book entitled "The Unmaking of Israel". An Orthodox Jew who's also left-wing, he talks about how Israel is at a crossroads as the divide between the secular and religious continues to deepen.

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