BEIJING, April 12, 2011 (AFP) – China on Tuesday refused to provide any details about the whereabouts of detained outspoken artist Ai Weiwei and chided foreign countries for supporting a “suspected criminal”. Ai, who was taken into custody in Beijing on April 3 as he tried to board a flight to Hong Kong, is under investigation [...]
ISHINOMAKI, April 10, 2011 (AFP) – Prime Minister Naoto Kan promised Sunday he would “never abandon” survivors of Japan’s tsunami as he tried to focus attention on the future, despite a high-stakes battle at a nuclear plant. Kan, on only his second trip to the disaster zone in the month since the March 11 tragedy, said [...]
RAWALPINDI, April 9, 2011 (AFP) – A Pakistani court asked the government Saturday to speed up the arrest of former president Pervez Musharraf amid uncertainty over whether Britain would honour a warrant for his arrest. Musharraf, who lives in self-imposed exile in London, is wanted over the 2007 murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. Prosecutors accuse him [...]
TEHRAN, April 9, 2011 (AFP) – Iran can “easily” help Japan in dealing with a crippled nuclear power plant which was damaged in the aftermath of a March 11 tsunami, a top Iranian atomic scientist was quoted as saying on Saturday. ”Iran is one of the nations which under the current circumstances can help Japan with [...]
TOKYO, April 8, 2011 (AFP) – Japan’s prime minister has returned a donation he received from a foreign national, reports said Friday, four weeks after the scandal looked set to cost him his job. Prime Minister Naoto Kan — Japan’s fifth premier in as many years — was under mounting pressure over the reported $12,500 donation [...]
ABIDJAN, April 6, 2011 (AFP) – French helicopters carried out an operation on Wednesday night to evacuate the Japanese ambassador, whose Abidjan home was besieged by mercenaries, a source close to the operation told AFP. Helicopters of the French Licorne (Unicorn) force “responding to a UN request, opened fire in the sector of the residence to [...]
YANGON, April 4, 2011 (AFP) – Myanmar strongman Than Shwe, who ruled with an iron fist for almost two decades, has retired as head of the military after handing power to a nominally civilian government, officials said Monday. The postman-turned-dictator last week disbanded the junta, the State Peace and Development Council, following November polls marred by [...]
SYDNEY, April 4, 2011 (AFP) – Australia is losing almost Aus$600 million a year to social security fraud and crooked public servants, a report showed Monday as the government announced new measures to tackle the menace. More than 800,000 incidents of fraud were recorded in 2008-09, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology’s “Fraud against the [...]
ISLAMABAD, April 3, 2011 (AFP) – Two suicide bomb attacks outside a shrine in the central Pakistani province of Punjab on Sunday killed 41 people, a police officer told AFP from the scene of the blasts. The bombers struck outside the shrine of the 13th century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar, in [...]
BAKU, April 2, 2011 (AFP) – Riot police staged a show of force in the capital of ex-Soviet Azerbaijan on Saturday to stop an unauthorised pro-democracy rally and seize protesters who defied the ban. Police armed with batons and rubber bullets shut down a central square in the capital of the energy-rich, mainly Muslim state, preventing [...]
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