Monterrey (Mexico) : At least 25 people died Thursday in a clash between Mexican soldiers and gunmen in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, a military spokesman said. It appears all the fatalities were gunmen, he said. The gun battle occurred 15 km east of the municipality of General Treviño near the border with the [...]
Mogadishu : At least fifteen people were killed and more than 30 injured Tuesday after a roadside bomb explosion hit two passenger buses in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said. The explosion ripped through the buses as they plied the only road connecting the divided city and is used by Somali government forces [...]
Santiago de Chile : The digging of a rescue shaft to free 33 miners trapped some 700 metres underground in a collapsed Chilean mine started late Monday, following several delays, a government spokesman said. Drilling the 66-cm wide rescue shaft is expected to take between two and four months. Rescuers hope to add eight [...]
Sydney : Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged to “renovate” the Labor Party’s tradition to make lasting improvements to Australian democracy. With the Australian Electoral Commission’s vote count still hanging between Labor and the opposition coalition, Gillard Tuesday pledged to make changes if Labor retained power in a hung parliament, without spelling out [...]
Sana’a (Yemen) :At least 15 people were killed after torrential rainfall triggered flooding and landslides in different parts of northwest Yemen Wednesday, police said. They said seven people died after floods swept away the car in which they were travelling in the Mashanna district of Ibb province, about 180 km south of the capital Sana’a. [...]
Paris: The lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, Tuesday passed a bill banning the wearing of the Islamic all-body veil, or burqa, in all public places. If approved in the fall by the Senate and then by the Constitutional Council, the law would impose a fine of 150 euros ($190) or a [...]
London : Anna Chapman, the accused Russian agent who was at the centre of a major spy swap between Moscow and Washington last week, has been stripped of her British citizenship, it was reported Tuesday. The Press Association, quoting government sources, said the 28-year-old, who was married to a British man and lived in London [...]
Berlin: Germany outlawed a charity group for having alleged links to Palestinian militant organisation Hamas, interior minister Thomas de Maiziere said. Authorities believe the Frankfurt-based Internationale Humanitaere Hilfsorganisation (IHH) has been funnelling money to Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip and is considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union, the United States and Israel. [...]
Melbourne: Senior citizens in Australia’s old-age homes and retirement facilities are leading active but “risky” sex lives and most of them have more than one active partner. A research in Australia, which surveyed 320 men and women, has found that sexual activity among the 82-87 age group is “reasonably common”, while online dating by people [...]
Sao Paulo : The sale of firearms in Brazil has increased by 70 percent since 2005, authorities said. Brazilians approved the sale of firearms in the country in a referendum in 2005. About 59 million of the 92 million people who participated in the vote supported the sales. In 2005, 68,000 firearms were sold nationwide; [...]