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Jane Macartney in de Chinese
paramilitary politie van Peking heeft acht mensen na het openen van brand op honderden Tibetan monniken en villagers in bloedig geweld gedood dat rechten van de mensprotesten van brandstof zal voorzien aangezien Londen voorbereidingen treft om zijn been van het Olympische toortsrelais te ontvangen dit weekend.
De getuigen zeiden het conflict - waarin dozens gewond waren - laat vorge nacht losbarstte nadat een team van de overheidsinspectie een klooster in… inging
Door Jim Yardley
PEKING - een Chinees hof op Donderdag veroordeelde een openhartige rechten van de mensverdediger aan 3 1/2 jaar in gevangenis na de uitspraak van dat zijn kritieke pogingen en commentaren over de Communistische regel van de Partij tot het oproepen van ontwrichting leidden, zei zijn advocaat.
De overtuiging van de verdediger, HU Jia, 34, één van de prominentste rechten van de mensactivisten in China, snel gebracht buitenkritiek van China op een tijdstip waarop de overheid… is
Door MARLISE
De simons- New York Times
PARIJS - de V.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Thursday acquitted a former commander of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army of all charges of war crimes in a decision that could inflame anti-Kosovo sentiment in Serbia just weeks after Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.
The commander, Ramush Haradinaj, who also briefly served as prime minister of Kosovo, was found not guilty of murder, persecution, rape ...
Jenny Booth, and Jan Raath in Harare
Zimbabwe’s opposition party today declared its leader Morgan Tsvangirai the rightful winner of the presidential election as official results showed Robert Mugabe’s party had lost control of the parliament.
The Movement for Democratic Change said that Mr Tsvangirai had won more than the 50 per cent of the vote needed to win the presidency outright.
It claimed that Mr Tsvangirai had ...
A US Defense Department analyst has pleaded guilty to delivering classified information to a Louisiana businessman working for China.
Gregg Bergersen, a weapons analyst at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who held top secret security clearances, was arrested last month.
Prosecutors in Virginia alleged he divulged military secrets to a New Orleans furniture salesman, Tai Kuo, who turned over the information to the Chinese government.
Bergersen pleaded ...
Supporting many European Union officials stance, US Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison for alleged terrorist detainees.
“I believe we should close Guantanamo,” McCain, who spent six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said in a foreign policy address in Los Angeles, where he argued that the United States cannot go it alone in the ...
WELLINGTON (Xinhua) -- New Zealand and Fiji on Saturday became the first countries to take part in Earth Hour, an event aimed at reducing emissions that contribute to climate change. A total of 24 cities around the world are officially involved, although people from 370 different towns and cities have registered to be a part of the event.
New Zealand's third largest city of Christchurch and Fiji's capital of Suva kicked off ...
Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, has extended a deadline to April 8 for Shia fighters to hand over weapons or face "severe penalties".
In a statement on Friday, he said: "All those who have heavy and intermediate weapons are to deliver them to security sites and they will be rewarded financially."...
Zimbabwe’s government has described as rubbish accusations that general elections scheduled for March 29 would not be free and fair. This follows a report by US-based Human Rights Watch, which suggests that supporters of incumbent President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF government use violence to intimidate partisans of opposition parties. Mugabe’s government contends that significant changes have been made to ensure that this month’s elections are credible.
It adds that the country’s electoral ...
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