News archive from Monday, 30 April 2012, page 19
Protester killed and 30 injured in Cairo clashes
At least one person was killed and 30 others wounded when assailants used fire bombs and rocks to attack demonstrators who had gathered outside Cairo's defence ministry to call for an end to military rule, security officials said yesterday. The...
Dissident in US embassy is 'perfect storm' for Chinese
Washington was yesterday scrambling to limit possible damage to the US-China relationship ahead of a long-scheduled visit to Beijing by Hillary Clinton, after a Chinese dissident who escaped house arrest took shelter in the US embassy in Beijing....
Policeman and game warden killed in rhino poaching gun battle
A police constable and a ranger were shot dead at the weekend during an operation to track rhino poachers in South Africa's Kruger Park game reserve. Colonel Vishnu Naidoo, a police spokesman, said it was the first time a police officer had been...
Bin Laden's widows 'have no terror links'
Saudi Arabia has no evidence that Osama bin Laden's three wives and and reportedly 11 children deported from Pakistan have been involved in terrorism, officials said yesterday in an apparent indication that they will allow the group to remain in the...
Top UN observer urges Syria to co-operate
Touching down in Damascus yesterday, the new head of the United Nations' observer team cautioned that his mission would not be a silver bullet that would resolve Syria's conflict, as escalating violence and mistrust continued to thwart plans for...
Why is the rural idyll I call home voting for Marine Le Pen?
Outside our village hall, the 10 metal election boards stand empty. The faces of the politicians have been torn off by the wind. A few metres away is a rough, communal field which turns one weekend each July into a joyous festival of sausage grilling...
Taliban link to brutal murder of aid worker
The mutilated body of a British aid worker who was kidnapped earlier this year in Pakistan has been found in the south-western city of Quetta. A note reportedly pinned to the corpse by the Pakistani Taliban said he was killed because no ransom had...
'I was prepared to lose someone in my family, but not all of them'
"Baba Amr has only two doors, one to death and one to freedom," reads Manar's latest work, scrawled on a piece of paper in red and black marker pens and tacked to the wall opposite his hospital bed. The doctors have been encouraging him to...
Sarkozy cries 'infamy' over claim that he was bankrolled by Gaddafi
An unpleasant election campaign turned even nastier and more confusing yesterday. After days of making baseless accusations of his own, President Nicolas Sarkozy claimed that he was the "victim" of a smear plot by the Socialist front-runner,...
Workers' rights have gone to the wall, activists claim
Activists apply finishing touches to a huge mural in Quezon City, east of Manila in the Philippines, in readiness for a May Day rally tomorrow. Workers and activists will march through the capital in protest at the government's migrant labour policy...
Vatican 'accepted one billion lire' to bury crime boss in basilica next to former popes
The Vatican is facing a deepening controversy over the burial 22 years ago of a notorious crime boss, with reports emerging that the church accepted a one billion lire (£407,000) payment from the mobster's widow to allow his interment in a basilica. A...
Authorities round up friends suspected of helping dissident to flee
Activists were trying yesterday to learn the fate of those who helped Chen Guangcheng in his audacious escape from house arrest and his dash to Beijing. After months of planning by friends and allies, Mr Chen, who is blind, scaled the wall around his...
Royal Mail's stamp price rises come into force
A rise in the cost of stamps has come into force after weeks of stockpiling by some consumers. A first-class stamp now costs 60 pence, having risen from 46p, while a second-class stamp costs 50p after going up from 36p. Royal Mail said that the price...
New holiday Atol protection rules begin
Expanded protection that automatically covers UK holidaymakers if an operator collapses has come into force. The extended Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (Atol) scheme is estimated to protect some six million holidaymakers. Package holidays are...
Three killed after racing yacht hits cargo ship
A yacht involved in a race off the coast of California and Mexico apparently collided at night with a much larger vessel, leaving three crew members dead and one missing. The 37-foot Aegean and its crew of four were reported missing on Saturday during...
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