Harold Camping, the former civil engineer who heads the Family Radio Network of Christian stations, had been unwavering in his message that believers would be swept to heaven on May 21. With no sign of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday as forecast by an 89 year-old California evangelical broadcaster, followers were faced with trying to make sense [...]
GAZA CITY, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – Gaza was in shock and mourning Friday after a radical Islamist group killed an Italian activist just hours after kidnapping him in an act deplored by Rome as “barbaric.” The victim, 36-year-old Vittorio Arrigoni who was working with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was found dead by the [...]
JERUSALEM, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – Spanish Crown Prince Felipe restated his nation’s support for an independent Palestinian state during talks on Tuesday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, a local news agency said. Prince Felipe, accompanied by his wife, Princess Letizia, met Abbas at his presidential headquarters in Ramallah as part of a tour of Israel [...]
LAGOS, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – The capture of Laurent Gbagbo is a “unique opportunity” to end Ivory Coast’s crisis but the defeated strongman should be treated fairly, the West African bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday. ECOWAS commission chief James Victor Gbeho said in a letter to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara that Gbagbo’s rights should [...]
PRAGUE, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – A clip showing Czech President Vaclav Klaus spiriting away a pen during a press conference has become cult viewing on YouTube and inspired a tongue-in-cheek Facebook campaign. The clip, copied from a report on Klaus’s visit to Chile which was broadcast by public Czech television on Sunday night, was posted [...]
BEIJING, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – China on Tuesday reiterated a request for Japan to quickly provide information on its nuclear crisis after Tokyo upgraded its emergency to a maximum seven, on a par with the Chernobyl disaster. Beijing has repeatedly asked that its neighbour be transparent about the impact of the March 11 accident at [...]
ALGIERS, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – Between 2,000 and 3,000 students held a march Tuesday in central Algiers in defiance of a government ban on demonstrations in the Algerian capital. The students gathered in front of the central post office and ran up against several cordons of police deployed in downtown Algiers from the early hours [...]
BAGHDAD, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – Eight people were killed in bomb attacks around Iraq on Tuesday, security and hospital sources said. Three of the dead were policemen, while 12 people, including six police, were wounded in the attacks. Two of the police victims were killed by an improvised bomb that targetted their patrol overnight south of [...]
PARIS, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – A spokesman for ousted Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday accused French special forces of carrying out a coup d’etat in its former colony on behalf of his rival Alassane Ouattara. ”It was a coup d’etat which had no other aim but to gain control of the resources of [...]
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