By Karanja Njoroge and Vitalis Kimutai It is not often that a girl is wooed through the mother, but US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the question happily and easily. In these tough times, so the question went, when the US is facing tough economic times that may have compelled her husband, former President Bill Clinton back to work, would she consider the substantial...Continue reading »
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***UPDATED*** Kuwaiti police investigating the fatal wedding fire in which 43 women and children were killed have said the groom’s ex-wife has confessed, AP reports. The independent Al-Qabas daily said the groom’s former wife, who is 23 years old, poured gasoline on the tent and lit it because she felt her ex-husband mistreated her when they were married The...Continue reading »
NEW DELHI – India reacted with outrage Sunday after Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said he was detained for questioning at a U.S. airport, though immigration officials denied he was formally held. Fellow Indian film stars and political leaders condemned what they called “humiliating” treatment given to Khan, a Muslim who is well-loved in a largely...Continue reading »
Abdul-Latif Moussa was surrounded by militants in the mosque on Friday It has criticised the rival Islamist group, Hamas, which controls the coastal territory, for failing to establish Islamic law and for abiding by the ceasefire called after the Israeli offensive ended in January. On Friday, the leader of Jund Ansar Allah, Abdul-Latif Moussa, declared in a sermon at Rafah’s...Continue reading »
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) – The Federal Aviation Administration says it has placed two employees on administrative leave in connection with last week’s deadly mid-air collision over New York’s Hudson River. The FAA said Thursday night it has begun disciplinary proceedings against an air-traffic controller who was handling the small plane that collided...Continue reading »
A French woman, wearing a burqini similar to this, has been told the swimsuit breaches hygiene rules. A Paris swimming pool has refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a burqini, a swimsuit that covers most of the body. The pool ban came as French lawmakers conduct hearings on whether to ban the burqa after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the head-to-toe veil was...Continue reading »
Newsweek — Some people are saying that Aung San Suu Kyi’s verdict today—18 months of house arrest, commuted down from three years of hard labor—is a sign that Burma’s junta leader Than Shwe really is beginning to show more flexibility. They’re wrong. The junta is subjecting the opposition leader’s freedom to “death by a...Continue reading »
BAGHDAD — The entire village was gone. Local television broadcast scenes of homes reduced to heaps of rubble mixed with bed frames, mattresses, furniture and bloodstained pillows. A villager cried into the camera: “Look, Mr. Prime Minister and Mr. Interior Minister, where is the security that you speak about?†The latest wave of sectarian bombings struck...Continue reading »
Some analysts are warning that the Obama administration is taking the wrong approach in moving to increase US military support for the nascent Somalia’s government. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Nairobi on Thursday following a meeting with TFG leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed that she and President Obama “want to expand and extend our supportâ€....Continue reading »
Smoke rises from a house where militants were hiding during a police raid in Temanggung, Central Java, today. Noordin Mohammed Top (inset), the suspected terrorist behind the Jakarta hotel bombings, is believed to have been killed. Photo: Reuters The federal government is still waiting for confirmation from Indonesian authorities about whether terrorism mastermind Noordin...Continue reading »
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan believes Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, was probably killed with his wife and bodyguards in a missile attack two days ago, the interior minister said on Friday. An intelligence officer in South Waziristan told Reuters that Mehsud’s funeral had already taken place, while Pakistani...Continue reading »
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has issued a “special pardon” to two American journalists convicted of sneaking into the country illegally, and he ordered them released during a visit by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, North Korean media reported early Wednesday. The release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee was a sign of North Korea’s...Continue reading »
SEOUL — Former US president Bill Clinton on Tuesday met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il during a surprise visit to Pyongyang to try to negotiate the release of two jailed female US journalists. North Korean state media said Clinton had delivered a verbal message to Kim from current US President Barack Obama, but the White House — which had described the trip...Continue reading »
Kenya has promised to reinforce its border with Somalia after several abductions near the frontier. Officials have been discussing how to stop incursions since the weekend, when militants snatched three foreign aid workers from the town of Mandera. A defence spokesman promised to try to stop the militants, but said it was often difficult to identify them. Meanwhile, Kenyan...Continue reading »
Somali militants raided two United Nations compounds today, stealing equipment and vehicles and forcing the world body to close down one of its operations in the violence-wracked country. Al Shabaab militiamen looted UN facilities in the towns of Baidoa and Wajid, UN spokesperson Marie Okabe told reporters in New York, adding that the UN Office in Somalia “deeply...Continue reading »
NAIROBI — When violence broke out in Somalia’s battered capital this summer, cynics called it “business as usual.” Once again, they claimed that the warring Somalis were embroiled in an incomprehensible clan struggle and that the international community should stay away and let them get on with it. I could not disagree more. We are at a critical...Continue reading »
MANAMA, JULY 19 (BNA) — THE SECOND DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE REPRESENTATIVES COUNCIL DR.SALAH ALI RECEIVED AT HIS OFFICE HERE TODAY DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF SOMALI PARLIAMENT ABDULAZIZ SOMALI AND MOGADISHU UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT DR.ALI AL SHEIKH AHMED. THEY DISCUSSED BILATERAL COOPERATION TIES AND WAYS OF DEVELOPING THEM. THE MEETING ALSO TOUCHED ON THE SITUATION IN SOMALIA...Continue reading »
Berlin – Somali pirates have moved to land four hostages from a captured German-owned ship as ransom negotiations drag out, a German news website said Sunday. The Hansa Stavanger and its crew of 24 were seized April 4. Germany abandoned an operation to free it by force. It is among about 20 foreign ships held hostage by the pirates. Quoting one of the Germans on...Continue reading »
SOMALIA-KIDNAPPING/ (Q+A):Q+A-Who is behind Somalia’s kidnappings? By Jack Kimball and Abdiaziz Hassan NAIROBI, July 19 (Reuters) – A string of abductions of foreigners in Somalia have thrown the international spotlight on kidnapping in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation. Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke told Reuters on Sunday that the government...Continue reading »
MOSCOW – At least five large groups of pirates totalling over 5,000 people are operating in the Gulf of Aden, the first deputy chief of the Russian Navy General Staff has said. “Pirates have become more daring and aggressive recently – there were instances when they seized vessels right in front of the ships that were responsible for the security of...Continue reading »
