Fresh South China Sea dispute
Chinese fishing boats in the South China Sea earlier this year. Photo: AP Beijing: China and two of its neighbours, Vietnam and India, are locked in a new dispute over energy exploration in the South China Sea, as China continues its aggressive attitude towards the contentious waterway. Vietnam accused a Chinese fishing boat of cutting a seismic […]
Read More →UN Secretary General condemns proposed Israeli settlements
ISRAEL UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon has criticized Israel’s proposed new West Bank settlements, saying they’ll deal a “fatal blow” to peace. The comments follow Israel’s confiscation of tax and tariff funds from Palestine. Ban Ki-moon (pictured above) warned Israel Sunday, saying 3,000 new proposed settlement homes would harm the peace process with the Palestinians. […]
Read More →Fatal incident reflects new boldness among offshore smugglers
The death of a Coast Guard crewman after suspected smugglers rammed a U.S. craft shows the rising popularity of sea routes for marijuana and illegal immigrants. Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III suffered a fatal head injury attempting to stop a Mexican panga near Santa Cruz Island  Your take? Is Mexican drug violence spilling over […]
Read More →Congo rebels’ withdrawal from Goma ‘purely tactical’, say analysts
Despite retreat by the M23, there’s no sign that any of the major players are willing to act to stop the violence flaring up again A Congolese M23 rebels sleeps in the back of a truck as the rebels withdraw from Goma. Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images After much initial confusion, reports indicate that rebels in […]
Read More →KENYA: As polls loom, tensions mount in slums
IRINnews 2012-12-04: NAIROBI, 4 December 2012 (IRIN) – After Kenya went to the polls five years ago, Victor Situma and his family were among some 600,000 people who fled their homes as, in many parts of the country, a bitter dispute over who had won the presidency degenerated into widespread inter-communal violence. His house and shop […]
Read More →Obama warns Syria against using chemical weapons
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama warned Syria on Monday that the use of chemical weapons would be “totally unacceptable” and that the country’s leaders would be held accountable. Obama said that if Syrian President Bashar Assad made the “tragic mistake” of deploying chemical weapons, there would be consequences. Obama stopped short of detailing those […]
Read More →Illinois Senate approves immigrant drivers licenses
SPRINGFIELD — Undocumented immigrants are a step closer to being allowed to have drivers licenses after the Illinois Senate approved the proposal today. Senators voted 41-14 to approve, helped by support from top Republicans. Related articles Curran to lawmakers: Approve licenses for undocumented immigrantsLocal clergy backing undocumented immigrant driver’s licenses More on the Web Licenses […]
Read More →What Susan Rice Has Meant for U.S. Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
How the possible-next Secretary of State helped the U.S. continue a Cold War-style approach to the continent — and aided a new generation of dictators in the process. Rice, then the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, walks through a market in southern Sudan (now the independent state of South Sudan) on November 19th, […]
Read More →Edward Kandler, US Board of Immigration: Stop the Deportation of Mother and Community Activist Dede Adhanom!
Petitioning US Board of Immigration click here to get the link Petition by Jen Wallis Seattle, WA Multiply your impact Turn your signature into dozens more by sharing this petition and recruiting people you know to sign. YOU YOUR FRIENDS 170 avg. THEIR FRIENDS 10,000 approx. Dede Adhanom was born in Ethiopia. In 1985, at the […]
Read More →petition for the peace & Reconciliation of our church Let us SAVE WALDBA! together Save Waldba International Coalition Temporary Committee
Hello, Dear Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church followers around the world, As you all know, the EOTC fathers separated from one another for the last 21 years and every Orthodoxawian looking for solution for the last many years. That solution is HERE today, however some group may not willing to see this happen. Please try your […]
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