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Monday, January 5, 2015 - 13:05
Reuters reports that the number of homicides in El Salvador increased an alarming 56 percent during the past year. “The National Civil Police reported 3,875 homicides in total as of December 30, compared with 2,490 [in 2013]. Just this month, police said, there was an average of 12 homicides daily.”
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 13:02
India’s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) have handed over to Mauritius a 1,300 ton offshore patrol vessel, three years after it was ordered to ensure maritime security around the island nation.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 13:00
Russia and Argentina are eyeing a deal under which Moscow would lease 12 Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer aircraft to Buenos Aires in return for beef and wheat, the London-based paper Sunday Express has claimed. As a result, the British Defence Ministry has reportedly launched a review of the air defenses of the Falkland Islands.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:56
The Mexican president and his team started 2014 carrying out a slew of newly passed reforms, from breaking up telecommunications monopolies to opening the nation’s energy sector, earning him international plaudits, including a Time magazine cover with his image above the caption “Saving Mexico.”
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:55
On December 23rd Cameroon's president, Paul Biya, promulgated a new anti-terrorism law that has been criticized by the opposition, civil society groupings and human rights organizations as severely curtailing basic freedoms.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:51
Government officials in Europe and the United States have offered only muted criticism of Azerbaijan throughout a year of rampant human rights violations that included the arrest of journalists and activists and the closure of numerous NGOs.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:50
For more than two years, the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) has tried to carve out modicums of peace and stability that might lead the country out of the violence that has shredded it for more than two decades. AMISOM has sought to protect civilians from IEDs laid by al-Shabab, the militant Islamist group, and its sympathizers, and to improve essential public services such as water, education, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure. AMISOM hopes to “provide an enabling environment” for the United Nations, civilian organizations, and commercial enterprises to come in and finish the work of building peace.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:47
The Georgian Defense Minister, Mindia Janelidze, spent New Year’s Eve with the Georgian troops in Afghanistan, the Georgian defense ministry told Trend Jan.3.
It is reported that the Deputy Defense Minister Gocha Ratiani and deputy chief of staff of the Georgian armed forces Col. Roman Jokhadze arrived in Afghanistan together with the defense minister.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:42
Militants abducted as many as 40 boys and men from a village in northwest Nigeria this week in a raid that authorities have reportedly blamed on Boko Haram, the Islamist group that kidnapped over 250 school girls last year.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:42
Despite continued harassment and threats from Azerbaijan officials, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalists in Baku continue to work, the broadcaster's Azerbaijani service chief says.