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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
TRIPOLI — Libyan dissidents reported heavy fighting in the besieged city of Misrata yesterday after France said Nato must step up bombing to stop Muammar Gaddafi's forces attacking civilians.
Nato took over air operations from a coalition of the United States, Britain and France on March 31 and dis
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
CAIRO — Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, 82, was admitted to hospital yesterday, state television reported, two days after he was summoned to take part in a probe by the public prosecutor.
Mubarak, ousted on February 11 after 30 years in office, was summoned by the public prosecutor on Sund
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
NICOSIA — Syrian security forces locked down the protest flashpoint town of Banias and raked the nearby village of Baida with gunfire yesterday, witnesses said by telephone, as international criticism of the crackdown mounted.
"Security forces and armed men are firing machine guns indiscriminately
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
LUXEMBOURG - Europe granted Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouatarra a half-a-billion-euro inducement yesterday to secure economic revival after months of violence leading up to Laurent Gbagbo's capture.
France announced a cash injection of 400 million euros ($580 million), after which European Unio
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
UNITED NATIONS — The United States blocked a European bid to break the deadlock in the Middle East peace process at an international meeting this week, diplomats said yesterday.
Washington would not agree to the diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East holding a meeting in Berlin on Friday, diplomats
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
AMSTERDAM -- The Netherlands will block Iceland's bid to join the European Union unless a dispute over $1.3 billion on unpaid debts is resolved, the Dutch finance minister said on Tuesday.
Jan Kees De Jager also said he wanted to lobby the International Monetary Fund, which has been giving aid to I
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
TOKYO — Japan upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises yesterday, placing it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster a quarter-century ago.
The reassessment to a "major accident" with "widespread health and environmental effects" was based
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
TOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said yesterday that the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant is gradually stabilising and that the amount of radiation being released is falling.
"Step by step, the reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are moving toward stability," Kan said in a tele
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
TOKYO — Nationwide electricity demand in the month since a strong earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 11 fell 7.5 per cent from the same period a year earlier, Reuters calculations based on data from the Electric Power System Council of Japan showed.
Power demand in areas covered by Tokyo Elect
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
TOKYO — The economic impact of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan is worse than previously thought, a Japanese minister was quoted as saying yesterday.
Economy and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano said the ripples of the disaster that struck the country last month would be felt wid
