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Eleven Syrians killed in explosion, violence

Eleven civilians were killed in Syria yesterday, including eight who died in an explosion in the northwestern province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human
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Britain cuts thousands of armed forces jobs

Up to 2,900 members of the British army including 400 Gurkhas will lose their jobs along with 1,000 air force personnel in the latest round ...
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British government sinks royal jubilee yacht

Britain’s government yesterday torpedoed suggestions by Education minister Michael Gove that taxpayers could pay for a new royal yacht to mark the diamond jubilee of ...
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Libya militias settle fight with prisoner swap

Rival Libyan militias who for two days clashed bitterly in towns south of Tripoli have settled their deadly dispute through a prisoner swap, a military ...
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Spain’s Gamesa wins Chinese wind turbine contract

Spain’s Gamesa, one of the world’s top wind turbine groups, has won a contract to supply Chinese firm Longyuan with 50 Megawatts of power ...
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Nigerian unions call off nationwide strike

Nigerian unions ended a week-old nationwide strike yesterday after the president agreed to lower petrol prices, while security forces shot into the air and fired ...
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UN ‘sustainable energy for all’ initiative

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched yesterday an initiative designating 2012 as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, with the aim of reaching ...
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Liberia’s Sirleaf sworn in

Liberia’s Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was yesterday sworn in a lavish USD 1.2 million ceremony after her disputed re-election in the nation’s second ...
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Thirteen dead in Beirut building collapse

At least 13 people were killed and 20 others feared trapped in the rubble of a run-down apartment block that collapsed “like an earthquake” in ...
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Landslide win for Kazakh ruling party, observers troubled

The ruling party of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev yesterday scored a landslide victory with over 80 percent of the vote in parliamentary polls, which observers ...
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