AfricaNews-A United States federal judge in Virginia has thrown out piracy charges against six Somalis accused of attacking a US Navy ship last spring off the coast of Africa. Judge Raymond Jackson ruled the piracy charges should be dismissed because the group did not rob board or take control of the USS Ashland.Prosecutors accuse the six of opening fire on the ship in the Gulf of Aden.
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By RFI:Lebanon's parliament has adopted a law granting full employment rights to the roughly 400,000 Palestinian refugees living in the country, though the Lebanese constitution prohibits the naturalisation of the refugees.The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) estimates that there are about 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, though Lebanese officials have said no more than 300,000 refugees actually reside in the country.Leila Al-Ali from the Palestinian rights group, the Najdeh Association, told RFI that the move is only a partial lifting of the ban on Palestinian workers, specifying that it would only affect unskilled and semi-skilled workers.
By RFI:The lawyer of a Palestinian who tried to take a diplomat hostage in Turkey's Tel Aviv embassy was an informant for Israel's Shin bet internal security agency, his lawyer claims.The drama, which began when he broke into the embassy brandishing a knife and a toy gun, ended this morning with no embassy staff were hurt, although the man was shot in the leg.The man has been identified as Nadim Injaz who was arrested by Israeli police in August 2006 after he entered the compound of the British embassy in Tel Aviv, threatening to commit suicide if he were not granted asylum.Nadim Injaz’s lawyer Avital Horev said Wednesday that his client was a former informant for Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency.
AP-JERUSALEM – A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.Israeli news websites and blogs showed two photographs of the woman. In one, she is sitting legs crossed beside a blindfolded Palestinian man who is slumped against a concrete barrier. His face is turned downwards, while she leans toward him with her face upturned. Another shows her smiling at the camera with three Palestinian men with bound hands and blindfolds behind her.
Aljazeera-A spokesman for the Taliban has offered to set up a joint committee with the United Nations and Nato to study civilian casualties in Afghanistan.A recent UN report blamed anti-government groups, including the Taliban, for most of this year's civilian casualties. In a statement posted on its website, the Taliban called the report "biased and subjective", and called for a joint study.
aljazeera-At least 48 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at an army recruitment centre in the Iraqi capital.Iraqi officials said at least 129 other people were wounded in the blast on Tuesday, when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb as men queued outside the centre in central Baghdad.The attack occurred at the historical site of the country's defence ministry, a building that was turned into an army recruitment centre and military base after the 2003 US-led invasion.Yasir Ali, who had been waiting outside the military headquarters said that he saw the bomber, describing him as a blond young man who walked up to an officer and blew himself up.
VOANews-The United Nations reports as many as 3.5 million children in flood-stricken Pakistan risk falling ill from waterborne diseases. A United Nations spokesman in Pakistan says children in emergency situations are particularly vulnerable to deadly diseases such as acute watery diarrhea and dysentery.Pakistani authorities estimate the devastating floods are affecting 20 million people. Of these, the United Nations says at least six million are in need of emergency life-saving assistance.
AfricaNews-Malawi's Professor Moses Chirambo, fired from cabinet last week, died at a South African clinic, about four days after President Bingu wa Mutharika relieved him from heading the Ministry of Health.Death of Malawi's first ophthalmologist hit Malawians as they were trying to embrace new ministers sworn in on Wednesday. Mutharika himself said, at Sanjika Palace, no one was a 'life minister'.
IPS-In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has been forced to scale back aid for lack of funds.Niger's transitional government made a call for help to avert a famine affecting nearly half of the country's 15 million people in April, citing a poor 2009 harvest, which left the country with a grain shortfall of more than 400,000 tonnes.
The Monitor Kampala-The South African cabinet is due to meet on Wednesday to consider deploying its forces to bolster the African Union troops in Mogadishu, the UK press reported yesterday.Government spokesman Themba Maseko, speaking to the Observer of London, confirmed the meeting but gave no details. Another source that preferred anonymity, however, told the newspaper "it appears President Zuma will definitely give a nod to the AU's request for South African military support".African Union chairman Jean Ping recently wrote to the South African government, imploring it to contribute troops for the Somalia mission against a resurging al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda affiliate.Lastest News
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