A UN deadline for Sudan and South Sudan to resume talks on oil and other critical issues looked likely to pass without action on Wednesday, as South Sudan accused Khartoum of stalling. The South’s lead negotiator, Pagun Amum, told AFP late Tuesday that his country is ready to resume the African Union-led talks. Sudan withdrew [...]
Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday aged 83, was one of the Spanish-speaking world’s best known writers, famous for his prolific output and his use of experimental language. President Felipe Calderon announced the writer’s death in a message on his Twitter account. The National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature confirmed he had died in a [...]
Nigeria and India jointly account for 20 per cent of global maternal deaths, though better care has cut the number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth by nearly half in the past two decades. The UN said there is still a death every two minutes. according to figures released today India and Nigeria between [...]
Former Rupert Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others were charged on Tuesday with trying to conceal evidence in the first prosecutions to emerge from Britain’s phone hacking scandal. In an angry public appearance, the former News International chief executive and editor of the News of the World said she was “baffled” by [...]
Francois Hollande was sworn in as France’s first Socialist president since 1995 on Tuesday at a solemn ceremony overshadowed by the debt crisis threatening to unravel the eurozone. After brief ceremonies in Paris, the 57-year-old career politician was to dash to Berlin to confront Chancellor Angela Merkel over their very different visions as to how [...]
Mali coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Monday urged interim leaders to hold talks to choose a transition president after regional mediation failed to resolve a dragging political deadlock. Sanogo told journalists at the Kati military barracks, headquarters of the former junta, that he had called for a convention led by current interim leader Diancounda [...]
Police in Nepal say a plane carrying 21 people has crashed in the north of the country, reports the BBC. The Agni Air plane hit a hillside as it tried to land at Jomsom airport, a hub for trekkers and religious pilgrims. Reports said a number of people had survived the crash but police reported [...]
