Manila /Geneva - The Red Cross on Monday issued an emotional plea for the lives of its staff members being held hostage by Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines who threatened to behead one of the aid workers. Our message to Abu Sayyaf is: Please spa...Source : ...
Geneva/ Manila (ICRC) – The ICRC has again appealed to the Abu Sayyaf group to spare the lives of the three ICRC workers, Mary Jean Lacaba, Eugenio Vagni and Andreas Notter, it has been holding since 15 January.Source : CICR (subscribe)Explore : ...
More than 30 years after Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge were flushed from power one of their leaders stood in the dock to answer charges of crimes against humanity, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, murder and tortureSource : Financial Times (subscribe)Explore : Asia, ...
GENEVA -- With global trade sliding, analysts say some of the world's most powerful leaders may need to offer more than ritual support for open markets when they meet this week if they are to steady a teetering economy and avoid a damaging retreat to protectionism.Source : Seattle ...
GENEVA -- More than 300 people are believed to have drowned after the vessels they were traveling in capsized and sank off the coast of Libya, an international migration group said Tuesday.Source : Seattle Post-Intelligencer (subscribe)Explore : Europe, World
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French-language news site les quotidiennes reports on a UN-sponsored symposium on honour crime to be held in Geneva on Saturday, 4 April. The translation posted below comes from Google, with some editing for intelligibility by this blogger. According to the United Nations, more than 5,000 women and girls each ...
Bafana Bafana midfield star Teko Modise is looking forward to another chance of playing alongside Steven Pienaar when the 2010 World Cup hosts tackle an out-of-sorts Portugal in a friendly international in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Tuesday night.The Orlando Pirates ace has been waxing lyrical about ...