January 11, 2013
3 Days of Mourning in Pakistan’s Quetta
Officials in Pakistan's Baluchistan province Friday declared a three-day mourning period, following deadly bomb blasts in the province capital. Authorities said security forces have been deployed around Quetta where political and religious groups…
January 11, 2013
Austrian Neo-Nazi Sentenced to 9 Years
An Austrian court has convicted a well-known member of the far-right to nine years in prison for propagating Nazi ideology online, in violation of the country's strict anti-Nazi laws. Gottfried Kuessel, who had been arrested in April 2011, was…
January 11, 2013
Obama, Karzai Meet at White House
U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai meet Friday at the White House to discuss the future role of the U.S. in Afghanistan, their first meeting since Mr. Obama's re-election. The two leaders will hold a joint afternoon news…
January 11, 2013
115 Killed in Pakistan Blasts
A leading human rights group says Pakistan's Shi'ite Muslims are living in a state of siege, after a string of bombings across the country killed 115 people and wounded nearly 250, in one of the nation's deadliest days in years. Ali Dayan Hasan, the…
January 11, 2013
Dozens Dead and Missing in China Landslide
Chinese authorities say at least 18 people have been confirmed dead and dozens are missing after a landslide swept through a village in southern China. Local authorities and state media said rescuers had recovered 18 bodies in the village in Yunnan…
January 11, 2013
UK requests extradition of Misick
The United Kingdom has made a request for the extradition of former Turks and Caicos Premier Michael Misick who is being held in a Brazilian jail following after his December arrest in the South American nation on an international warrant. Under an…
January 11, 2013
US spent billions on Caribbean immigration enforcement
A new study has found that last year the Obama administration spent more on immigration enforcement affecting the Caribbean and other countries than on all the other major federal law enforcement agencies. The Migration Policy Institute, a…
January 11, 2013
US seize Gold Bars in Puerto Rico
U.S. authorities in Puerto Rico have confiscated 11 gold bars sent by mail from Curacao, officials said Tuesday. Investigators are now probing whether the seized gold is from a recent heist on the Dutch Caribbean Island. The gold bars were found in…
January 11, 2013
Mother hacks 11 month old baby to death
A mother chopped her 11-month-old son to death yesterday then turned herself over to the police in a bizarre case of infanticide that shocked the country.Police did not name the mother, who is now in custody pending further investigations. However,…
January 11, 2013
PNP says much achieved in first year
THE People's National Party (PNP)-led Government yesterday released what it described as a Year One Report Card detailing its achievements in the first 12 months of the administration. In highlighting the five main pillars of the report, the party's…