Ethnic clashes in Moyale area, southern Ethiopia, are reported to have left at least 18 people dead and 12 others injured. More than 20,000 people have crossed into Kenya to escape the fighting, the Kenyan Red Cross says. People were continuing to cross the border although Ethiopian government forces had intervened to stop the fighting. The clashes, in the Moyale area, are thought to have been sp…
…ses and how these preconceptions form at a very early age Interestingly enough, these differences became even more exaggerated as the children grew older. The researchers conducted the same study with 10-year-old children, and in both groups, the children overwhelmingly said that people with Northern accents were “smarter” and “in charge”, while those with Southern accents were “nicer”. But what w…
Sundance Film Festival 2012 took place from Thursday, January 19 to Sunday, January 29 in Park City, Utah. The 28th edition of the festival presented about 118 independent films from 30 countries, including 45 first-timers (24 in competition) and 91 world premieres. Featured in four different competition categories were 58 individual films. Parker Posey was the host of the closing awards ceremony…
…ulation about his health mounted when he missed an African Union summit in Addis Ababa last month. Meles Zenawi took power as the leader of rebels that ousted communist leader Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991. He had dominated Ethiopian public life since the 1990s, as president and then prime minister. He was austere and hardworking, with a discipline forged from years spent in the guerrilla movement…
…Ethiopian government accusations that it sponsored the gunmen involved. Afar is regarded as a haunt of both Ethiopian and Eritrean rebels. Ethiopia and Eritrea have been bitter adversaries since their 1998-2000 border war. Two other tourists were seriously hurt and a third is said to have escaped the attack unharmed, said Ethiopian Television (ETV). It said the two injured tourists had been taken…
…Zenawi’s life and achievements. Thousands of people, including dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries, attended Sunday’s funeral. The ex-prime minister died last month in Brussels after 21 years in power. The cause of the 57-year-old’s death has not been announced. Meles Zenawi was praised for bringing development to Ethiopia, which has long been associated with hunger and fam…
…n years ago, each with its own method of moving around. The other creature was the famous “Lucy” animal (Australopithecus afarensis), whose remains were first identified in the Afar in the 1970’s. Lucy’s body was built for walking. Her big toe was aligned with the other four digits of the foot, and she had a human-like arch that allowed for very efficient locomotion. The owner of…
9-cent store, and some cashiers tallied bills by calculator. San Diego County hospitals were operating on backup power, but conditions were challenging staff at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, which had 220 patients when the power went out. “We are in full disaster mode,” said Gary Fybel, chief executive of the hospital. “We completed all surgeries that were underway. We did not ta…
…r, has been sworn in after the death of long-time leader Meles Zenawi in August Hailemariam Desalegn had been deputy prime minister and foreign minister. Meles Zenawi died last month in Brussels after 21 years in power. …
At least 50 people have been killed and more than 70 have been injured in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad. Provincial officials said at least Shia pilgrims died in a suicide attack near the city of Nasiriya. Earlier, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said at least 24 people were killed in blasts in Shia areas of Baghdad. The attacks come amid a rise in sectarian tensions aft…
…wi’s last public appearance was at the G20 talks in Mexico last month. Meles Zenawi took power as the leader of a rebel movement which ousted the communist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991. He has won several elections since then, but his political opponents have accused him of using repression to retain power. …
Cyclone Mahasen has stricken Bangladesh’s southern coast, as people packed into evacuation shelters. The storm hit Patuakhali district on Thursday with winds of up to 100 km/h (60 mph), and was heading for the ports of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar. Some two people have been killed, Bangladeshi officials say. Around one million people have been ordered to evacuate low-lying areas in Bang…
French Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) founder Jean-Claude Mas has been arrested at his home in Six-Fours-les-Plages, southern France, according to police. In 2010, France banned PIP breast implants made with low-grade industrial silicone, amid fears they could rupture and leak. Up to 400,000 women in 65 countries are believed to have been given implants. Jean-Claude Mas, 72, remains at his home whil…
…Abdallah Senoussi, as the only Libyan ICC suspect still at large. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had been on the run since NTC forces took the capital, Tripoli, in August. Muammar Gaddafi himself was killed on 20 October after being captured during the final battle for his hometown, Sirte….
…ead researcher Luca Pagani of the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute added: “The genetic evidence is in support of the legend of the Queen of Sheba.” More than 200 individuals from 10 Ethiopian and two neighboring African populations were analyzed in the largest genetic investigation of its kind on Ethiopian populations. About a million genetic letters in e…
Thousands of Ethiopians are attending the state funeral in Addis Ababa of country’s long-serving Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died last month. Meles Zenawi’s flag-draped coffin was carried in a procession from his palace to the city’s Meskel Square, where a solemn religious ceremony began. Dozens of foreign leaders and dignitaries, including at least 20 African presidents, w…
donors wanted proof of a humanitarian catastrophe before acting to prevent one,” the report says. “Sophisticated early warning systems first forecast a likely emergency as early as August 2010, but the full-scale response was not launched until July 2011.” Two leading British aid organizations say that thousands of needless deaths occurred from famine in East Africa last year b…
Yemeni army commander General Salem Ali Qatan leading the fight against militants in the south of the country has been killed in a suicide attack, officials say. General Salem Ali Qatan was killed near his home in the port city of Aden, a medical official told AFP news agency. Yemen is battling militants linked to al-Qaeda who have taken control of parts of the south of the country. It has recent…
…ruitment and propaganda operations. The man, a Jordanian-born Saudi Arabian citizen, was known within al-Qaeda as “the librarian”, Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters at the time. In March 2004, an al-Qaeda linked bomb attack on three packed commuter trains in Madrid killed 191 people and injured 1,841 others. …
17;s ion engine is now pushing it on to an even bigger target in the belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter – the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn is expected to reach this 950 km-wide body in early 2015. Before departing on its long cruise to the new destination, the probe trained its camera system on Vesta’s northern pole. The pictures reveal mountains and craters that are being seen for…
…#8211; a cancer that forms in the nerve tissue. In every case, combining fasting with chemotherapy made the cancer treatment more effective. Multiple cycles of fasting combined with chemotherapy cured 20% of those with a highly aggressive form of cancer while 40% with a limited spread of the same cancer were cured. None of the mice survived if they were treated with chemotherapy alone. Researchers…
by NATO-led forces in recent years to improve security there. The United Nations said on Saturday that civilian deaths in Afghanistan had risen for the fifth year in a row – with 3,021 deaths in 2011 compared with 2,790 in 2010 and 2,412 in 2009….
…m in the bay since 1980. But the new study, reported in the Royal Society Journal Proceedings B, came about through chance. Following the al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington DC on 11 September 2001, ship traffic in the bay dropped off. Whale researchers registered a 6 decibel (dB) fall in the intensity of underwater noise, with the change particularly pronounced at frequencies below 150Hz….
Eurozone unemployment rate hit a new record high in October, while consumer price rises slowed sharply. The jobless rate in the recessionary euro area rose to 11.7%. Inflation fell from 2.5% to 2.2% in November. The data came as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned the euro would not emerge from its crisis until the second half of next year. Government spending cuts would continue…
At least 4 people have been wounded in a shooting incident at a Halloween party at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles. Campus news outlet Neon Tommy said the incident took place at 23:30 local time. Police confirmed that there were casualties. At least one suspect has been detained. The university shut down the campus and urged students to stay away from the area of the s…
Eurovision 2013 winner is Denmark's Emmelie de Forest with Only TeardropsDenmark has won 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Swedish city of Malmo. Danish Emmelie de Forest had been the overwhelming favorite among the 26 entries, with her…
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