Month: November 2011

November 22, 2011

Egypt military pledges to speed up power transfer

Egypt's military rulers have agreed to speed up presidential elections, a key demand of protesters packing Cairo's Tahrir Square. Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said on national TV they would happen by July 2012. He said parliamentary…

November 22, 2011

Pakistan US ambassador Haqqani resigns over ‘memogate’

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States has resigned over claims that he sought Washington's help against his country's military. Husain Haqqani is accused of compiling a memo seeking US help to avert a military takeover in Pakistan following…

November 22, 2011

Turks and Caicos workers protest looming job cuts

Hundreds of government workers in the Turks and…

November 21, 2011

U.S. to join U.K. in new Iran sanctions

The United States will name Iran, as well as its Central Bank, as a “primary money…

November 21, 2011

CIA Spies Caught, Fear Execution in Middle East

In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught and the U.S. government fears they will be or have been executed, according to four current and former…

November 21, 2011

Adele and Taylor Swift rule at American Music Awards

Taylor Swift, right, beat Adele, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga to artist of the year

November 21, 2011

Chevron takes full responsibility for Brazil oil spill

US oil company Chevron says it accepts full responsibility for an oil spill off the coast of…

November 21, 2011

Trade unions in T&T talk of bringing down the Govt

The trade union movement plans to bring down the Government by not supporting its re-election, president general of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) Ancel Roget has said. Speaking at the community meeting held by the Joint Trade Union…

November 21, 2011

Peru archaeologists find pre-Inca sacrificed babies

Researchers at the Sillustani archaeological site in Peru say they have found the bodies of 44 children thought to have been sacrificed between 600 and 700 years ago. They were buried in pairs in baskets placed around stone funerary towers.…

November 21, 2011

Rihanna `not fit’ – Bajan church leader

Concerned that Barbados is in a state of decay and immorality, a…