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Attacks against Shiites in Iraq kill at least 41

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide attacker and twin bomb blasts on Thursday targeted Shiites marking a somber religious ritual in Iraq, killing at least 41

Typhoon-struck Philippine city begins mass burial

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Workers in this typhoon-shattered city buried scores of unidentified bodies in a hillside mass burial Thursday as desperately needed aid began

Insight: Revival of Islamists in Mali tests French, U.N. nerve

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Nine months after they were scattered across the Sahara by waves of French air strikes, Islamists in Mali are making a comeback –

Sri Lanka defends rights record at Commonwealth

YoopyaNov 14, 2013January 31, 20240

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The president of Sri Lanka hit out Thursday at reporters and critics who question his nation’s human rights record, saying

U.N. Security Council to vote this week on delay of Kenya trials: Rwanda

YoopyaNov 13, 2013February 14, 20240

(Reuters) – As Africa urges the U.N. Security Council to take it more seriously, Rwanda plans to put to a vote this week a draft

U.S. to name Nigeria’s Boko Haram as terrorist group: sources

YoopyaNov 13, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – The State Department will formally designate the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization on Wednesday, congressional sources and

Desperate Philippine typhoon survivors loot, dig up water pipes

YoopyaNov 13, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Desperation gripped Philippine islands devastated by Typhoon Haiyan as looting turned deadly on Wednesday and survivors panicked over delays in supplies of food,

Congo, M23 rebels peace signing delayed over wording of pact

YoopyaNov 12, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – A ceremony to formally end Congo’s bloodiest conflict in a decade was delayed on Monday by an 11th-hour spat between the government and

U.S., Britain send warships to help Philippine relief efforts

YoopyaNov 12, 2013June 24, 20230

(Reuters) – A U.S. aircraft carrier set sail for the Philippines on Tuesday to accelerate relief efforts after a typhoon killed an estimated 10,000 people

Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help as rescuers struggle

YoopyaNov 11, 2013January 31, 20240

(Reuters) – Dazed survivors begged for help and scavenged for food, water and medicine on Monday, as relief workers struggled to reach victims of a