Recovery efforts continue in Air India crash
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2010
Reporting from New Delhi
Searchers combed a steep, wooded hillside in southern India on Saturday for the remains of 158 passengers and crew of an Air India Express flight and clues to the cause of the country's worst aviation accident in a decade.
Online English class a draw for Haiti survivors
By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times
May 24, 2010
Teaching by video from the U.S., Americans instruct Haitians in post-earthquake tent camps in the English the survivors say they need. The textbook is about a family that lost its home in the quake.
Mexican indigenous leader slain
Tracy Wilkinson in Mexico City
LA Times
May 21, 2010 | 6:24 pm
An indigenous leader and his wife have been slain in southern Mexico, in the same area where a humanitarian aid convoy was attacked last month and two activists — a Mexican and a Finn — killed.
The shooting deaths of Timoteo Alejandro Ramirez and his wife, Cleriberta Castro, seem to be the latest violence in a long-running dispute over land, money and political power in a remote region where indigenous communities resist mainstream state and federal government and have declared themselves "autonomous."
Seoul: North will pay for sinking
Al Jazerra.net
Monday, May 24, 2010
04:59 Mecca time, 01:59 GMT
South Korea's president has vowed that North Korea will pay the price for sinking a South Korean naval ship in March which left 46 sailors dead.
Bangkok cautiously re-opens for business
Ambika Ahuja
Reuters
BANGKOK
Sun May 23, 2010 10:50pm EDT
Bangkok got back to business on Monday with markets, government offices, and schools re-opening after a massive clean-up of the city following the worst political mayhem in modern Thai history.
Thailand's stock exchange and other financial markets resumed full-day trading, after being closed on Thursday and Friday following a wave of arson and street battles when the army dispersed thousands of anti-government protesters.
Dozens dead in China accidents
Al Jazeera.net
Sunday, May 23, 2010
08:20 Mecca time, 05:20 GMT
Two transport accidents in China have claimed dozens of lives, with a passenger train derailed by a landslide and a truck colliding with a bus.
State media said 32 people were killed on Sunday when a truck travelling in the wrong direction on an expressway collided head-on with a bus in the country's northeast.
Ethiopian PM 'expects to win' poll
Sunday, May 23, 2010
21:07 Mecca time, 18:07 GMT
Vote counting is underway in Ethiopia following a national election that Meles Zenawi, the country's long-standing prime minister, has said he expects to win.
Zenawi rejected opposition complaints of fraud in Sunday's election, the country's first ballot since a disputed poll in 2005 turned violent.
Jamaica declares emergency
Al Jazeera.net
Monday, May 24, 2010
04:26 Mecca time, 01:26 GMT
Jamaica's government has declared a state of emergency in parts of its capital Kingston after shooting and firebomb attacks on police stations by suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces extradition to the US.
U.S. troops, Afghan police sweep through Taliban stronghold
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2010
Reporting from Kandahar, Afghanistan
U.S. soldiers and Afghan police early Saturday swarmed a dense Taliban stronghold of mud-brick homes on the western shoulder of Kandahar, conducting searches and promising aid in a preview of a planned summer campaign to control the insurgent movement's spiritual home.
Gaza children's camp destroyed
Al Jazeera.net
Sunday, May 23, 2010
14:45 Mecca time, 11:45 GMT
Dozens of masked men have broken into a UN-run Gaza summer camp for children and set it on fire, after beating up the guard and destroying the plastic tents.
The men blocked Gaza Strip's main coastal highway on Sunday before destroying the facility, one of the largest of several summer camps across the occupied Palestinian territory run by UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons
Chris McGreal in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 23 May 2010 21.00 BST
Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.
The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". |
|