International

  • Clashes in Central Africa

    Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

    BANGUI, Central African Republic — At least four people died and several injured in fighting between military police and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic at the weekend, a military police official said yesterday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fighting broke

  • Briton to face charges for killing his children

    Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

    PARIS — A British man is to face charges over the killing of his two children in France, prosecutors in Lyon said yesterday. The 48-year-old man admitted to having slit the throats of his daughter, aged 5 and his 10-year-old son, the prosecutors said, adding there was currently no evidence of preme

  • Ukrainian billionaire sues business rivals in London

    Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

    KIEV — Ukrainian billionaire industrialist Viktor Pinchuk is suing two of his compatriots in London's High Court, saying they failed to hand over an iron ore business for which he paid $143 million. The Krivy Rih Iron Ore Combine is one of Ukraine's top ten iron ore producers and made a net profit

  • Ugandan police raid two newspapers, radio stations

    Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

    KAMPALA — Ugandan police raided two newspaper offices and two radio stations yesterday, after reports of a falling out among army generals over whether the president's son is to succeed him. "Police ordered our operations shut down under the pretext of carrying out a search," said Alex Asimwe, Mana

  • Two tourists die in Turkey hot-air balloon collision

    Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

    ISTANBUL — Two Brazilian tourists died yesterday and 23 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials said. The accident occurred over Cappadocia's sculpted rock formations when one balloon collided with the basket of another balloon above

  • Syria pounds opposition stronghold

    Monday, 20 May, 2013
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    DAMASCUS — Syrian troops backed by its militia yesterday entered Qusayr, a strategic opposition stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al Assad insisted he would not quit. The advance came as Assad's opponents warned his government's "barbaric and destructive" assault

  • Protesting Egyptian cops block border crossing

    Monday, 20 May, 2013
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    CAIRO — Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel yesterday, security sources said. Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to pr

  • Police clash with protesters over banned rally

    Monday, 20 May, 2013
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    TUNIS — Supporters of a hardline group clashed with Tunisian police in two cities yesterday after the government banned its annual rally. Violence broke out in the central city of Kairouan, venue of the planned rally, and in a district of Tunis, where a witness said a number of people were injured.

  • Former settlement’s land to return to Palestinian hands

    Monday, 20 May, 2013

    JERUSALEM — The land where a West Bank settlement once stood before its evacuation during Israel's 2005 disengagement, is finally to be returned to its Palestinian owners, an Israeli NGO said yesterday. Legal rights group Yesh Din said state attorneys told the Supreme Court last week the government

  • 29 killed in South Sudan cattle raid

    Monday, 20 May, 2013

    JUBA — At least 29 people were killed when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, a local official said yesterday. The gunmen crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county and sprayed it with bullets, killing 23 p

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