Friday, March 2, 2012

SYRIA: Aid convoy blocked from Baba Amro, Red Cross says

SYRIA: Aid convoy blocked from Baba Amro, Red Cross says

SYRIA: Aid convoy blocked from Baba Amro, Red Cross says

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:44 PM PST

Syrian authorities blocked an aid convoy from the International Committee of the Red Cross from entering the Baba Amro neighbourhood of Homs on Friday, the aid group said. ICRC president Jakob Kellenberger called the move "unacceptable".

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IRAN: Power struggle dominates Iran's legislative elections

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:20 PM PST

State media reported a large turnout Friday as Iranians voted in parliamentary elections, with loyalists of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looking to prevent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's supporters from winning a majority.

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RUSSIA: Satirical dig at Vladimir Putin delights Moscow

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 08:44 AM PST

With just hours to go before the Russian presidential election, a Russian theatre is taking a satirical dig at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the odds-on favourite to win Sunday's vote.

EUROPE: EU states sign fiscal treaty without UK and Czechs

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:37 PM PST

The leaders of 25 EU countries have signed a new treaty they hope will prevent the 17 eurozone nations balance their books and alleviate the currency bloc's crippling debt crisis. The treaty was not signed by the UK or the Czech Republic.

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SYRIA - FRANCE: French journalists land in Paris after Homs ordeal

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:41 PM PST

Injured French journalist Edith Bouvier (on stretcher) and her colleague, William Daniels (far left), arrived in France Friday from Lebanon. The pair was smuggled out of the Baba Amro district of the besieged Syrian city of Homs late Thursday.

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CULTURE: Hotly awaited film puts Sarah Palin back in spotlight

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:23 AM PST

"Game Change", a highly anticipated HBO film about Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, hits small screens on March 10. Starring Julianne Moore, the movie has set tongues wagging among former McCain campaign workers.

PAKISTAN: Pakistani Taliban targets rival Islamists in deadly blast

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:32 PM PST

A suicide bomber targeted the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Islam Islamist group in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 23 in an outbreak of inter-insurgent violence. A Pakistani Taliban commander claimed responsibility for the attack.

RUSSIA: Putin holds comfortable lead ahead of Sunday’s vote

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:40 PM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin seems all but certain to win re-election in Sunday's vote, with current opinion polls putting him at 60%. The runner up, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, trails with only around 15%.

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SOMALIA: Somali, AU forces seize Islamist bases in Mogadishu

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 08:23 AM PST

Somali government troops backed by African Union forces overtook several key positions of the militant al Shabaab Islamist group in the capital Mogadishu on Friday, the latest in a long-running effort to drive out the al Qaeda-linked insurgents.

ON THE BLOGS: If I were president... 'I’d ban the French from whingeing'

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 09:46 AM PST

When we set off for France's indoor farm convention this week, we went in search of a farmer. But after endless moos and baas from hundreds of model livestock, we found something much better. An eccentric mayor who says he would like to ban…whingeing.

SERBIA - EU: Serbia granted EU candidate status

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:06 PM PST

The European Union made Serbia a candidate for membership Thursday, following years of political reform and a gradual improvement in relations with Kosovo. The move follows a lengthy process to bring the former Yugoslav republic into the bloc.

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ON THE BLOGS: François Hollande in London: A charismatic bank-bashing rockstar

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 11:16 PM PST

François Hollande spent Wednesday in London, eating Yorkshire puddings with his Labour counterpart and posing for photos under Big Ben. How did the British press react to the French presidential frontrunner's cross-Channel sojourn?

Q&A: Parliamentary elections in Iran

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:56 AM PST

NORTH KOREA: North Korea agrees to halt its nuclear programme...again.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 06:42 AM PST

A possible diplomatic breakthrough in North Korean diplomacy? Only time will tell if North Korea's agreement to halt its nuclear activities in return for food aid from the US will stick. It isn't the first time such an agreement has been struck, two others resulted in deadlock. Hillary Clinton was quick to downplay the significance of the deal. Both sides will need to scrutinize the small print but for some it's an encouraging sign for relations between the two countries.

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THE INTERVIEW: Kyung-wha Kang, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:50 AM PST

The United Nations Humans Rights Council has voted to condemn Syria's President Bashar Al Assad over the ongoing violence. But is it simply another empty gesture? Annette Young talks to the UN Deputy Human Rights Commission, Kyung-wha Kang.

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POLITICS: Diplomacy: The Sarkozy Revolution

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 07:06 AM PST

This week, the two main contenders for the presidential election are taking a short break from their non-stop crisscrossing of France. Socialist François Hollande visits London, while Nicolas Sarkozy heads to Brussels for yet another "crucial" EU summit. This gives us the perfect opportunity to assess Nicolas Sarkozy's foreign policy during a five-year term marked by military interventions in Libya and Ivory Coast, the Arab spring and the eurozone debt crisis.

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