SAO PAULO: Brazil is taking steps to lower the spiraling cost of accommodations during the United Nations’ upcoming conference on sustainable development, the office of President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday. The statement said the steps could bring reductions of more than 60 percent for the cost of housing at the Rio+20 conference in Rio de [...]
The death of Mary Richardson Kennedy is another sad event in the long arc of the Kennedy family’s story. The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. died on Wednesday, sources confirmed to ABC News. The news site Radar Online cited a source saying that she committed suicide, though the police would not confirm that.RFK [...]
“I believe strongly in the rights of women. My mother is a woman. My sister is a woman. My daughter is a woman. My wife is a woman,” said Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in an interview with Barbara Walters on American television station ABC in October 2005. Saudi women have taken [...]
DHAKA: Demonstrators torched vehicles and fought police in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka after a court Wednesday denied bail to 33 opposition figures over charges stemming from an anti-government protest last month. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called a nationwide general strike for Thursday, saying the court decision was “politically motivated” aimed at crushing [...]
NEW DELHI: Strongly favouring nuclear power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said there would be no compromise on safety of atomic plants and it would be harmful to close the additional source of energy. “It would be harmful for the country to pass an ordinance on denial of nuclear power,” Singh said replying to [...]
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has demanded the Air Force take measures to make America’s most expensive fighter plane, the F-22 Raptor, safer for its pilots in light of an ongoing, potentially deadly problem with the plane’s oxygen system, a Pentagon spokesperson said today. As a recent ABC News investigation found, for more than four years [...]
As Greece erupts, Italy is moving into the eye of the storm. Its economy is contracting at speeds not seen since the depths of the slump in 2009 as draconian austerity bites, greatly increasing the risk of social revolt and a banking crisis. With the world’s third largest debt after the US and Japan at [...]
WASHINGTON: Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan, is expected to leave his post early next year and take over the U.S. European Command, US media reported on Tuesday. According to ‘Washington Post’ Allen has spent much of his tumultuous year in Afghanistan helping to negotiate a long-term security agreement with the [...]
Hundreds of Russian opposition supporters have for a week staged an indefinite sit-in protest in central Moscow against Vladimir Putin’s rule, a sight unprecedented in his 12 years of dominance. The activists set up camp in the Chistye Prudy district, one of the most prestigious areas in the capital, on May 8 two days after [...]
Egyptian police raided the Cairo office of Iranian television channel, Al-Alam, confiscating its equipment after it was found to be operating without license, a security source said on Monday. The raid was carried out on Sunday and the head of Al-Alam’s Cairo office, Ahmed Sioufi, was charged with working without an official permit, the source [...]
