World News Cyclone kills over 22,000 people in Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar - Hungry crowds of survivors stormed the few shops that opened in Myanmar's stricken Irrawaddy delta, where food and international aid has been scarce since a devastating cyclone killed more than 22,000 people, the U.N. said Wednesday.
Updated May 8, 2008, 04:28 pm
World News A native son returns to help his people
Calherbe Muhammad was sent to the United States some 17 years ago by his family to attain an education to help him return one day to be a help to his people.
Updated May 5, 2008, 11:42 pm
World News Thousands mourn cameraman slain by Israeli missile
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (IPS/GIN) - Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, was killed in mid-April while filming Israeli tanks as they fired missiles in Gaza. It was the 23-year-old cameraman’s job to go to the scene of Israeli bombings. Mr. Shana had also been injured in August 2006 in the north of the Gaza Strip in an Israeli missile attack. This time, though, he wasn’t lucky enough to survive.
Updated May 5, 2008, 11:10 pm
World News High food prices revive Egypt's opposition parties
CAIRO, Egypt (IPS/GIN) - Egypt’s opposition parties have found renewed strength following a nationwide protest against skyrocketing food prices. “April 6 was a watershed in the history of Egypt,” said Magdi Hussein, secretary-general of the Socialist Labor Party. “It will be studied by future students of political science.”
Updated May 5, 2008, 10:57 pm
World News Female lawmakers shift legislative priorities
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (IPS/GIN) - A new report by the Geneva-based Inter Parliamentary Union has shown that women are changing the priorities and sometimes the tone of legislatures around the world.
Updated May 5, 2008, 10:52 pm
World News New cabinet faces tough road in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya (IPS/GIN) - Kenya’s largest cabinet ever was sworn in April 17, and includes members of President Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement.
Updated May 5, 2008, 03:20 pm
World News Israelis snub Carter, refuse to help with security
JERUSALEM (IPS/GIN) - Three decades after Jimmy Carter brokered the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country, the former U.S. president has become persona non grata in the Jewish state.
Updated May 5, 2008, 02:14 pm
World News Norwegian firm evicts Tanzanians from land
OSLO, Norway (IPS/GIN) - Tanzania’s highest court is due to reach a verdict soon about whether a Norwegian cement company may evict roughly 3,000 Tanzanian farmers whom it has accused of trespassing on its land.
Updated May 4, 2008, 03:02 pm
World News West demands regime change for Zimbabwe
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Pressure to act against Zimbabwe came from Britain and the United States and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon voiced concern about the political situation in the country during a recent Security Council meeting.
Updated Apr 30, 2008, 11:21 am
World News Despite criticism, Carter visits Middle East
(FinalCall.com) - Upon announcing that he would embark on a 9-day “study mission” taking him to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, and mentioning a possible meeting with members of Hamas, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was immediately slammed by critics.
Updated Apr 29, 2008, 06:28 pm
World News Iran sanctions could backfire, experts warn
WASHINGTON(IPS/GIN) - The fundamental balance of power in the Middle East has shifted in the five years since the George W. Bush administration decided to invade Iraq. Iran has become the main beneficiary of the U.S. quagmire in Iraq.
Updated Apr 29, 2008, 05:55 pm
World News Asian arms race intensifies
WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - The prospects of integrating North Korea into the international community and constructing a peace and security structure for Northeast Asia are looking rosier, given the latest diplomatic breakthrough with the U.S.
Updated Apr 29, 2008, 05:31 pm
World News Rising food prices increase Haiti’s agony
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The Organization of American States and an ad hoc advisory group representing the United Nations Economic and Social Council recently met in Washington to discuss deepening cooperation to promote stability and socio-economic development in Haiti.
Updated Apr 23, 2008, 12:50 pm
