At Least 8 People Dead After Japanese Highway Tunnel Collapses By Akiko Fujita
Enlarge PhotoABC News – At Least 8 People Dead After Japanese Highway Tunnel Collapses (ABC News) At least eight people have been confirmed dead, after a highway tunnel in central Japan partially collapsed Sunday morning, sparking a fire, and trapping three cars inside. Yamanashi police say the charred remains of five victims were pulled from a […]
Read More →Israel must explain targeting of journalists in Gaza
Israel must explain targeting of journalists in Gaza  December 2, 2012 Hon. Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel 3 Kaplan St. P.O.B. 187 Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem 91919 Israel Via email: pm_eng@pmo.gov.il Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned that Israeli airstrikes targeted individual journalists and media facilities in the Gaza Strip […]
Read More →Meles Zenawi’s death dividend
The death of Meles Zenawi on August 20 at the age of 57 brought to an end more than two decades of controversial rule. In 1991, at the age of 36, Zenawi became the youngest ruler in Africa after leading his Tegrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an ethnic militia from the country’s north, to crush […]
Read More →War crimes suspects form Kenya poll alliance
Kenya would be forced to act on any arrest warrant issued by the ICC should the pair refuse to attend trial [Reuters] Two Kenyan presidential hopefuls suspected of war crimes have said they intend to join forces in next year’s vote by running on the same ticket. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former cabinet […]
Read More →Karuturi to outsource Ethiopian land to Indian farmers Raghuvir Badrinath /
Karuturi Global, the city-based publicly-held floriculture major and one of the world’s largest exporter of roses which is aggressively rolling out an agriculture business venture in Ethiopia, is looking at outsourcing 20,000 hectares of farm land in the African nation to Indian farmers on a revenue-sharing basis. The company has leased 300,000 hectares in Gambela, […]
Read More →Minneapolis man, 22 year-old Ethiopian, injured in shootout with police
David Embaye, 22A man suspected in a shots fired call was injured overnight after he fired a handgun at officers who were pursuing him on foot while he fled his vehicle. Officers responding to a report of gunfire in the area of 37th Street and Elliot Avenue at about 11 p.m. saw a vehicle leaving […]
Read More →Is Hailemariam Dessaleign the Men of God? By Abenezer Aregawi
It’s very hard and difficult for a person like me to judge somebody as  he is the men of God or not. First, I am not spiritual person though I believe in God. Second, it’s only God that can judge the overall activity or deeds of an individual. I believe on the bible verse written under […]
Read More →Ethiopian Born Actress Arrested for Public Intoxication
Ethiopian Born Actress Arrested for Public Intoxication Former “General Hospital” star Senait Ashenafi is the passenger from hell — TMZ has learned, she was arrested at a Dallas airport for public intoxication last weekend … after allegedly raising a drunken ruckus on board an […]
Read More →New H.I.V. Cases Falling in Some Poor Nations, but Treatment Still Lags
New infections with H.I.V. have dropped by half in the past decade in 25 poor and middle-income countries, many of them in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS, the United Nations said Tuesday. Report by nytimes.com The greatest success has been in preventing mothers from infecting their babies, but focusing testing and treatment on […]
Read More →SABC suffers ‘sense of humour failure’
The SABC is being oversensitive for reportedly choosing not to air an advert depicting President Jacob Zuma and his family, say industry experts. Report By Mail & Guardian “Democracy delivers rough and tumble debates all the time – all citizens, especially politicians, need to be a little more thick skinned,†Professor Anton Harber of the […]
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