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Nigerian forces making Islamist insurgency worse: Amnesty

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

By Joe Brock ABUJA (Reuters) – Human rights abuses committed by Nigeria’s security forces in their fight against Islamist sect Boko Haram are fuelling the very

Insight: Putin’s Russia – more fragile than it looks

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

(Reuters) – When Vladimir Putin celebrated his 60th birthday last month, a group of patriotic mountaineers unfurled a portrait of the Russian leader on a

Guinea swears in new electoral commission

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea has sworn in a new electoral commission after an initial boycott by the opposition, which claimed the government had tampered with its

South Africa gold workers to return after bonus spat

YoopyaNov 2, 20120

(Reuters) – Striking miners at AngloGold Ashanti will return to work on Sunday at two mines where operations were suspended this week in a dispute

Expect feisty defense from China’s disgraced Bo Xilai

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – Disgraced former top Chinese politician Bo Xilai can be expected to mount a feisty defense of himself when he finally comes to trial,

Syrian rebels arm Palestinians against Assad

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they had begun arming sympathetic Palestinians to fight a pro-Assad faction in a Palestinian enclave in Damascus –

With eye on 2013 midterms, Argentina cuts voting age to 16

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – Argentina lowered its voting age to 16 from 18 on Wednesday, a change that could help politically ailing President Cristina Fernandez court the youth vote

Sudan police fire teargas to disperse farm region protest

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese police fired teargas to disperse hundreds of protesters in a farming region south of the capital on Wednesday, witnesses said. The demonstrators,

Vatican may eventually limit Sistine Chapel visits

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

(Reuters) – Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes turned 500 on Wednesday with the Vatican warning it may eventually limit visitors to protect one of the

Senegal’s Sall replaces interior, foreign ministers in reshuffle

YoopyaOct 30, 20120

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired his interior and foreign ministers in his first cabinet reshuffle since taking office six months ago, the