As Hollande displaces Sarkozy festivities will be short-lived
Newly elected France president, Francois Hollande A victorious Francois Hollande faces a short honeymoon after his election as France’s first left-wing president in 17 years, with financial markets...
View ArticleCIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot
Fahd al-Quso The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the...
View ArticleAl-Jazeera closes Beijing bureau after reporter expelled
Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan in Bejing, China Al-Jazeera English has closed its Beijing bureau after the Chinese authorities refused to renew the press credentials of its correspondent or...
View ArticleSouth African courts to hear Zimbabwe rights cases
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe A South African court ruled on Tuesday its legal system can be used to investigate and prosecute citizens of neighbouring Zimbabwe for suspected of crimes against...
View ArticleYahoo! and Alibaba reach $7 billion deal
A man walks past a sign showing Yahoo! and Alibaba.com logos Yahoo! announced today it has reached an agreement with Alibaba Group on a staged and comprehensive plan to unlock the Yahoo’s investment in...
View ArticleMalaysia’s Anwar ‘to be charged’ over protest
Anwar Ibrahim Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be charged over an April protest demanding fair elections, his lawyer said Monday, accusing the government of a fresh bid to remove Anwar...
View ArticleMali president beaten and wounded
Protesters occupy Mali's presidential palace in the capital Bamako Mali’s caretaker president Dioncounda Traore was beaten up and hospitalised after hundreds of protesters stormed his palace on Monday...
View ArticleBissau’s junta hands power back to civilians
Guinea bissau soldiers after the coup Six weeks after it toppled the government and derailed elections, Guinea-Bissau’s military junta said on Tuesday it was handing power back to the West African...
View ArticleMost malaria drugs sold ‘are fake’
A mosquito biting a human Researchers who looked at 1,500 samples of seven malaria drugs from seven countries in South East Asia say poor-quality and fake tablets are causing drug resistance and...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Justice robbed again
Justice Stephen Breyer U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who was robbed in February at his Caribbean vacation home by a man armed with a machete, recently was the victim of a burglary at his...
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