20 MPs from former president Mohammed Nasheed's party spent Sunday night hiding in Parliament fearing arrest and even torture. ...
10:41:55 AM Feb 13, 2012
Cairo: Syrian forces resumed their bombardment of the city of Homs on Monday after Arab countries called for UN peacekeepers and pledged their firm support for the opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad. Opposition campaigners said tank fire was concentrated on two large Sunni Muslim neighbourhoods that have been at the forefront of opposition to Assad. They said 23 people were killed on Sunday after a lull in shelling the previous...
09:11:43 AM Feb 13, 2012
London: The UK police on Sunday charged three Indians in connection with the stabbing of an Indian student from Hyderabad, Praveen Reddy, who was a student of MBA at the London Business School. Reddy was stabbed several times at a party he went for, in the Newham borough of London, on Friday. He is still said to be in a critical condition and is currently recuperating at the London Royal...
08:54:39 AM Feb 13, 2012
Male: Riot police in Maldives clashed with former president Mohammed Nasheed supporters outside Parliament on Sunday. This came even as 20 MPs from his party spent the night holed up inside the Parliament building, fearing arrest and torture. Demonstrations outside Parliament started late on Sunday evening. People gathered when the MPs of the Maldivian Democratic Party, led by Mohammad Nasheed gathered outside Parliament. Reports say that the protests will continue...
08:54:10 AM Feb 13, 2012
Athens: Greece's Parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill Monday to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country. Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens and black-masked protesters fought riot police outside Parliament before lawmakers voted on the package that demands deep pay, pension and job cuts - the price of a...
07:36:17 AM Feb 13, 2012
Male: New Maldivian President Mohammed Waheed Hassan expanded his cabinet on Sunday amid the ongoing crisis in the island nation. The expansion includes two key players from former dictator Gayoom's administration. The new President has inducted seven new ministers in his cabinet but the post of vice president has been kept empty as of now. The sources say that the key post may be given to Mohammed Nasheed's party, the...
07:14:43 PM Feb 12, 2012
Kabul: Afghan officials say gunmen have killed a provincial judge and his young niece in eastern Afghanistan. A district official in Nangarhar province says the head of the appeals court for neighboring Kunar province was visiting family in a village outside of Jalalabad on Saturday when gunmen burst into the house and opened fire. Khogyani District Administrator Mohammad Asan says Judge Mohammad Nasir was killed, along with his eight-year-old niece....
04:01:03 PM Feb 12, 2012
London: Three Indians have been charged with the attempted murder of Praveen Reddy, an MBA student at the London Business School, who was critically stabbed on Friday night in the Newham borough of London. The Metropolitan Police told PTI on Sunday that the three are: Amareshwar Arava, 25, Sai Kishore Balguri, 25 and Nishanth Puttapaka, 23. "We are not treating the incident as racially motivated at this time," a police...
03:22:17 PM Feb 12, 2012
Pretoria: The image of 93-year-old Nelson Mandela will appear on South Africa's new currency notes to mark the 22nd anniversary of the anti-apartheid icon's release from prison. "On behalf of Government and the people of South Africa, it is my honour and pleasure to announce that the new South African bank notes will bear the image of President Mandela, the President of a free, democratic South Africa," South African President...
02:23:57 PM Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: New Maldives President Mohammed Waheed Hassan on Sunday inducted seven ministers into his Cabinet. The move can be seen as an attempt to consolidate his position in the country. The south Asian country continues to be on the boil ever since the forced ouster of former president Mohammed Nasheed. Male witnessed sporadic protests by the supporters of Nasheed on Saturday. However, the main concern is now slowly shifting...
01:14:06 PM Feb 12, 2012
London: Britain's biggest-selling newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five employees at The Sun tabloid were arrested on Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which owns the newspaper, said police had searched their homes and the group's London offices, potentially deepening the scandal over British tabloid wrongdoing. The Sun's deputy editor Geoff Webster, picture editor...
12:02:37 PM Feb 12, 2012
Maine: Mitt Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign for the party's presidential nomination a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor's margin of victory over Texas Rep. Ron Paul was so slim it all but guaranteed scrutiny of the party's decision not to count the results of caucuses scheduled later in...
11:58:30 AM Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: Former president Mohammed Nasheed hit out at India in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN. Nasheed said he is disappointed with India's reaction to the mutiny in his country and hopes that it would change its course soon. Nasheed said that he was forced to step down at gunpoint. He further said that the speaker of the House should take over and have fresh elections in two months. Here...
11:45:04 AM Feb 12, 2012
Male: Maldives new President Mohammed Waheed Hassan is set to conduct a major Cabinet expansion on Sunday, even as his deposed predecessor Mohammed Nasheed postponed his scheduled visit to his power centre Addu, where his supporters had alleged a violent crackdown. Government sources said a major Cabinet expansion will take place on Sunday as the new president makes efforts to establish a "national unity" government. Soon after taking over as...
10:20:54 AM Feb 12, 2012
Male: There seems to be no end to the political crisis in the Maldives. Male remained tense on Sunday with sporadic protests by the supporters of former president Mohammed Nasheed. However, the main concern is now slowly shifting to the island of Addu. Days after armed policemen and the military took over the entire area, reports of serious violations of human rights have emerged from the region. There were reports...
08:51:11 AM Feb 12, 2012
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