13 December 2011 Last updated at 18:40 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Environment Minister Peter Kent: ”Kyoto is not the path forward for a global solution for climate change” Several countries have criticised Canada for formally withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. A spokesman for France’s foreign ministry [...]
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December 14, 2011
December 12, 2011
Syrians to Vote in Local Elections
Syrians are due to vote in municipal elections Monday, the first test of reforms promised by President Bashar al-Assad’s government following protests against his rule. The elections cover more than 17,000 seats on local councils across the country’s 14 provinces. The government has called for a large voter turnout. The poll comes a day after [...]
December 5, 2011
Syria Faces New Sanctions as Violence Continues
Syria faced new sanctions Sunday after ignoring an Arab League deadline to let observers into the country as part of a plan to end a military crackdown on protests, which the U.N. says has killed at least 4,000 people. Senior league officials said that failure to reach an agreement could lead to outside involvement in [...]
November 21, 2011
Syrian Activists: Grenades Hit Baath Party Building in Damascus
Syrian activists said Sunday several rocket-propelled grenades hit a ruling Baath Party building in Damascus, hours after an Arab League deadline for President Bashar al-Assad’s government to end its bloody crackdown passed. The Local Coordination Committees activist network and witnesses reported numerous explosions in the city center. They said fire trucks headed to the area [...]
November 18, 2011
IAEA Rebukes Iran for Nuclear Activities
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency has passed a resolution that cites “deep and increasing concern” about Iran’s nuclear activities. The 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy Agency approved the resolution Friday, about a week after the agency said there is “credible” evidence that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Only Cuba and [...]
November 12, 2011
Yemeni Forces Kill 11 During Protests
Yemeni government forces have killed at least 11 civilians in one of the country’s largest cities, a day after a United Nations envoy started a mission to urge President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over power. Medical officials and witnesses say civilians were killed early Friday when Yemeni forces renewed shelling in Taiz, where demonstrators [...]
November 11, 2011
Yemeni Forces Kill 9 During Protests
Yemeni government forces have killed at least nine civilians in Taiz, one of the country’s largest cities. Medical officials and witnesses say the civilians were killed early Friday after forces renewed shelling in Taiz, where demonstrators have been calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s departure. News reports say pro-government forces opened fire near Freedom Square, [...]
November 8, 2011
Bolivia and US ‘to restore ties’
8 November 2011 Last updated at 04:53 GMT Mr Morales accused US drug agents and the US ambassador of conspiring against Bolivia’s government Bolivia and the US have agreed to restore full diplomatic ties three years after the US ambassador to La Paz was expelled by President Evo Morales. In an agreement signed in Washington, [...]
November 6, 2011
Boxing great Frazier has cancer
6 November 2011 Last updated at 00:13 GMT Joe Frazier held the world title in 1970-73 US former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier is in hospice care with liver cancer, his manager says. He says Frazier – also known as Smokin’ Joe – was diagnosed with cancer several weeks ago. “I would be a [...]
October 27, 2011
Goldman Sachs man on fraud charge
26 October 2011 Last updated at 20:52 GMT Mr Gupta arrested at his home in Connecticut and is due to appear in a New York court later on Wednesday A former director at investment bank Goldman Sachs has pleaded not guilty to charges of securities fraud relating to a hedge fund insider trading case. Charged [...]
October 26, 2011
FBI detains ex-Goldman Sachs man
26 October 2011 Last updated at 15:28 GMT Mr Gupta arrested at his home in Connecticut and is due to appear in a New York court later on Wednesday A former director at investment bank Goldman Sachs has been taken into custody on charges relating to a hedge fund insider trading case. Rajat Gupta, 62, [...]
October 26, 2011
11 Killed in Syrian Violence Ahead of Arab League Meeting
At least 11 people died in Syrian violence on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting of an Arab League delegation. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says nine soldiers were killed in the central Hama region after a rocket hit their vehicle. The group says army deserters who now back the opposition may have fired the [...]
October 22, 2011
NY bus accused of discrimination
21 October 2011 Last updated at 22:53 GMT Sexes sometimes sit apart on buses in the parts of the Orthodox Jewish community, US media report New York City officials say they could shut a bus service running through an Orthodox Jewish area that is accused of asking women to sit at the back. Officials have [...]
October 22, 2011
Bachmann denies ‘staff walkout’
21 October 2011 Last updated at 23:26 GMT A series of poor debate performances may have impacted Michele Bachmann’s early lead in the polls Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has denied reports that her New Hampshire campaign staff have quit. “I don’t know where that came from,” she told Radio Iowa. US media reported a [...]