Soldiers Leaving Diamond Field In Zimbabwe

Send to KindleTweet The African nation of Zimbabwe is reportedly pulling soldiers out of a diamond field after global diamond trade chiefs alleged abuses were taking place, according to BBC News. Activists say troops had killed 200 people at the Marange field and all the profits were going to President Robert Mugabe and his people, [...]

International News February 16-23

Send to KindleTweet Journalists Attacked Investigating Mugabe’s £4M HK Pad Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace secretly bought a £4 million house in the Far East while his country suffers from starvation, unemployment and a cholera epidemic, from which 3,467 people have died in a matter of months, The Times of London reports. One [...]

International News January 26-31

Send to KindleTweet Attacker Kills Kids, Adult At Belgian Nursery On January 23, a 25-year-old man attacked a Belgian nursery and killed two babies and a female childcare provider, The Times online reports. The knife-attacker, who is thought to be a psychiatric patient, had a black and white painted face and first tried to hurt [...]

International Headlines October 14

Send to KindleTweet Power Sharing Talks In Zimbabwe Falter Zimbabwe’s opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, walked out of power-sharing talks on Wednesday, Business Day reports. The country’s ruling PF party headed by Robert Mugabe and the opposition MDC party had signed an agreement last month that allotted certain [...]

International News July 15

Send to KindleTweet A United Nations Security Council measure to impose sanctions against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe failed when two of the 15-member group’s permanent members—China and the Russian Federation—voted against a draft resolution. The measure would have placed an arms embargo on the African nation, as well as a travel ban and a financial [...]

International News June 30

Send to KindleTweet Robert Mugabe, the incumbent president of the African country Zimbabwe, has retained his throne after a runoff election on Friday, which occurred after the opposition backed out for fear of continued violence, The New York Times reports. The 84-year-old Mugabe begins his sixth term as president. Western nations have declared the election [...]

International News June 2

Send to KindleTweet Designer Yves Saint Laurent died Sunday at the age of 71. Saint Laurent’s business partner for four decades, Pierre Berge, said he died in Paris after a long illness. When he resigned from the business in 2002, he admitted to having struggled with depression, drugs and loneliness. Plans to display a wax figure [...]

International News April 21

Send to KindleTweet Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo, 56, has been elected the next president of the South American nation of Paraguay, the Los Angeles Times reports. Once Lugo’s win is certified, he will start his five-year term as president on Aug. 15. His win marks the end of many years of control by [...]

International News April 14

Send to KindleTweet At least 12 people were killed and another 202 wounded when an explosion hit a mosque on Saturday in Shiraz, Iran, RIA Novosti reports. Taiwan’s incoming V.P. Vincent Siew met privately for about 20 minutes Saturday with Chinese President Hu Jintao in the first meeting of its kind, between high-ranking officials of the two [...]

International News Week of April 7

Send to KindleTweet The Brazilian government has earmarked $360 million to aid thousands of residents in the north fleeing the state of Paraiba, where the River Paraiba overflowed and cracked the walls of dam, killing 15 and displacing thousands, BBC reports. Authorities in the Southeast Asian nation of Burma have ordered an activist to life [...]