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Al Qaeda claims responsibility for attacks in Iraq

YoopyaJul 25, 20120

(Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq has claimed responsibility for scores of attacks across the country targeting mostly Shi’ite Muslim targets this week which

Burma’s Suu Kyi urges minority rights

YoopyaJul 25, 20120

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for laws to protect the rights of ethnic minority groups in her first statement in parliament.

Syria’s Turkish border units ‘head for Aleppo’

YoopyaJul 25, 20120

Thousands of Syrian soldiers are being moved from the border with Turkey to join fierce fighting in the city of Aleppo, activists have claimed. Rebels

Venezuela withdrawing from regional human rights court

YoopyaJul 25, 20120

(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday the South American nation is withdrawing from a regional human rights court that Latin America’s leftist

Severe typhoon hits Hong Kong, market delays opening

YoopyaJul 25, 2012June 25, 20230

(Reuters) – A severe typhoon hit Hong Kong on Tuesday, disrupting business across the financial hub, with offices and the stock market to remain closed

In power, Egypt’s Brotherhood seeks balance on Islamic law

YoopyaJul 25, 20120

(Reuters) – In decades of furtive meetings in tea houses, mosques and universities, members of Egypt’s underground Muslim Brotherhood spoke ardently of a country governed

Morsi picks water engineer with no Muslim Brotherhood links as prime minister

kiemtarJul 24, 20120

— Egypt’s first democratically elected president on Tuesday named a prime minister, picking as his choice to lead the government a 40-something, U.S.-educated engineer who sports

Clinton promises $157m in fight against HIV-AIDS

kiemtarJul 24, 20120

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. would be contributing an additional $157 million to the fight against HIV-AIDS, even as a constellation

Ghana’s president John Atta Mills has died suddenly

kiemtarJul 24, 20120

GHANA President John Atta Mills has died suddenly, just hours after being taken ill and months before he was to seek re-election in the country

Ghana President Mills dead: presidential statement

YoopyaJul 24, 20120

ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Atta Mills has died unexpectedly, a presidential statement said, and an aide said his death occurred on Tuesday after