…ks, called on people to “resist” the rebels. Aid agencies say tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in the last five days as conflict escalated. One camp near Goma, where about 60,000 people from previous conflicts were taking refuge, has emptied as people flee, the agencies report. This is the first time since the war officially ended in 2003 that rebels have entered Goma,…
ers, and that the armed men had been trying to free a militant who was condemned to death. There have been no executions in Democratic Republic of Congo since President Joseph Kabila came to power in 2001 Dikanga Kazadi said also that the two who died were a police officer and a young man who was visiting his detained brother. There have been no executions in Democratic Republic of Congo since P…
An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed 31 people and could threaten major towns, the World Health Organization has warned. An epidemic was officially declared on 17 August in the northwestern Orientale Province. WHO official Eugene Kabambi told Reuters that the situation was “very serious” and was “not under control”. An outbreak…
…n emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. It has sent 350 soldiers to ensure the security of its citizens, a senior official told AFP, bringing the total number of French troops in CAR to nearly 600. “I call upon all sides to show the greatest restraint,” said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, urging French nationals to stay at home. The UN Security Council voiced concern a…
Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese warlord, has been found guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers between 2002 and 2003 by the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is the court’s first verdict since it was set up 10 years ago. Thomas Lubanga will be sentenced at a later hearing. The warlord headed a rebel group during an inter-ethnic conflict in a gold-rich region of Democratic Republic…
Angelina Jolie was spotted without her engagement ring as she arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda with British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Sunday night. Instead Angelina Jolie, 37, wore a more modest gold band on her wedding finger. Angelina Jolie was spotted without her engagement ring as she arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda with British Foreign S…
…ck Obama in 2008, but is now firmly up for grabs. As they did four years ago, the Democrats will take the event outside the convention centre for the president’s prime-time speech, taking over a 74,000-seater stadium in Charlotte for the final night of speeches – despite a poor weather forecast. …
adlined speeches from Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney now face two months of relentless campaigning before voters across the 50 states go to the polls on 6 November. …
Passengers aboard a Finnair flight from Helsinki to New Delhi were pleasantly surprised when the aircraft’ staff treated them with a Bollywood-style dance to celebrate India’s 63rd Republic Day. A video showing the smiling Finnair staff treating passengers to the choreographed routine, has become a hit on YouTube, receiving more than half-a-million hits in just one day. Helena Kaartin…
Kate Middleton has been pictured on the front page of U.S. magazine The New Republic with a set of yellow, decaying teeth. Duchess of Cambridge was PhotoShopped like the American stereotype of a Brit with bad gnashers for a special issue of the politics and arts publication The New Republic about the future of Britain. Kate Middleton appears in front of a tattered Union Jack alongside the words,…
High winds and driving rain are lashing the coast of Haiti as Tropical Storm Isaac moves closer to the shore. The centre of the storm was last reported as being about 100 km from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Aid groups warn that some 400,000 Haitians still living in makeshift camps after the deadly earthquake of 2010 are extremely vulnerable. Forecasters say Isaac could cause life-threate…
Kim Kardashian knows exactly how to dazzle in swimwear and obviously doesn’t keep her trim body by just lying by the beach. On a family holiday in the Dominican Republic, Kim Kardashian’s showed her love of adventure by diving straight into the sea. Kim Kardashian, 31, flaunted a fabulous figure in her aqua bikini. Her curves were made for bikinis and the string number, accessorized w…
Bill Clinton has delivered a prime-time defence of Barack Obama, nominating the president for a second term in the White House. Former US president’s 50-minute speech at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, was strongly critical of Republican economic plans. Bill Clinton launched a full-throated defence of Barack Obama’s policies, saying his economic policies were working…
Kim Kardashian found a Halloween costume to perfectly accentuate her famous hourglass figure as she celebrated the holiday with her beau Kanye West. Kim Kardashian, 32, decided to go dressed as a mermaid, squeezing her curves into a green fishtail skirt and a shell bra. The reality star also sported a blonde wig to complete her elaborate look for the evening as she hit a Midori party in New York…
…across the world. Pope Francis has delivered his first Easter Sunday message since being elected with a passionate plea for peace In his Urbi et Orbi (To the city and the world) speech, Pope Francis, 76, began with a simple “Happy Easter!” The pontiff, who has begun his tenure by emphasizing humility, went on: “Christ has risen! What a joy it is for me to announce this message&#…
…former colonial power France, accusing Paris of abandoning them. The US has evacuated its embassy in the Central African Republic as rebels threaten to advance towards capital Bangui France has about 200 soldiers based in CAR and stepped up security at its embassy after the attack. President Francois Bozize apologized for the incident and appealed for “our French cousins” and the US &…
…everal towns in their push towards the capital. It is unclear how far they have advanced towards Bangui, but an unconfirmed report by Reuters news agency on Sunday quoted sources saying they were only 75 km (47 miles) away. President Francois Bozize, who seized power in a coup in 2003, has repeatedly relied on foreign intervention to fend off rebellions and the spill-over from conflicts in neighbo…
was with the Prince on Necker celebrating the 27th birthday of the Virgin tycoon’s son, Sam. Harry attended a second private party the day after he was photographed naked in a two-storey suite on the 63rd floor of the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Resort hotel. Around 12 hours after the now infamous “strip billiards” game he held court at a vodka-fuelled poolside party with a dozen “randomly recruite…
y like known portraits of the South American liberation hero. Two years ago Hugo Chavez ordered that the remains should be exhumed. Simon Bolivar was widely thought to have died from tuberculosis aged 47. But Hugo Chavez had a theory that Simon Bolivar had been poisoned in revenge for his fight against the Spanish empire. Forensic tests were inconclusive. Hugo Chavez has unveiled a 3-D reconstruc…
ist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) on the request of the CIA. CIA tracked Tamerlan Tsarnaev 18 months before Boston attack and added him to terrorism database The database contains as many as 745,000 entries, and individuals on that list are not necessarily on the so-called terrorist watch list. The Russian authorities had alerted US counterparts to the activities of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, wh…
ts say Barack Obama will be re-elected while 57% of Republicans think he’ll be voted out of office. Among those Republicans who think Barack Obama may pull out a victory is Catherine Shappard, a 78-year-old from Dallas. Catherine Shappard said all of her friends agree that Mitt Romney would be a better president, yet she’s alarmed to hear even conservative commenters say Barack Obama h…
are very different characters, with tieless, youthful Matteo Renzi, 37, painting himself as the voice of a new generation which wants to sweep away the entire class of older politicians. By contrast, 61-year-old Pier Luigi Bersani is very much a figure from that older generation. The final round of the contest for the leadership of the centre-left Democratic Party pitches veteran party leader Pi…
Libya News: The rebels take control of Tripoli. The battles are around Tripoli (Libya) and it seems that “Operation Mermaid Dawn” has begun, according to a military commander in Benghazi, colonel Fadlallah Haroun. The time of freedom arrived with the rebels closing to Tripoli “The fighters in Tripoli are rising up in two places at the moment – some are in the Taj…
Anti-government protesters in the Czech Republic have staged what they describe as the biggest rally since the fall of communism in 1989. Demonstrators say 120,000 people packed the capital Prague, protesting against austerity measures and corruption. Police put the numbers at 90,000. Echoing 1989, people jangled their keys – a signal to the centre-right coalition cabinet to lock up and lea…
Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died at 75. His assistant Sabina Dancecova says Václav Havel died Sunday morning at his weekend house in the northern Czech Republic. Václav Havel was his country’s first democrati…
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