May 11
After repelling an attack by Darfur rebels on Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, the Sudanese government has broken off diplomatic ties with Chad whom it accuses of supporting the revolt. The two sides fought a pitched battle in a suburb of the city yesterday. It was the first time fighting had reached the capital in decades of conflict between the Arab-dominated government and rebels from peripheral regions. Continue reading »
Tags: attack Darfur, Chad, EuroNews, government, Khartoum, Sudan
May 11
It is a defining moment for Serbia as the country votes in a general election that will shape future relations with Europe. Serbs are deeply divided over how to respond to the West’s recognition of Kosovo’s independence. Continue reading »
Tags: Boris Tadic, Democrats, election, EU, EuroNews, Kosovo, poll, Radicals, Serbia
May 06
Newly elected PM Silvio Berlusconi has promised to tackle the crisis
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A mountain of uncollected waste in Naples has prompted the EU to announce it is taking Italy to court.
More than 1,000 tonnes of rubbish is rotting on the city’s streets, and the EU argues not enough has been done to get rid of it.
“The Commission is not convinced that this issue will be solved quickly enough,” said an EU official.
Italy could face a heavy fine if the European Court of Justice decides that Rome has infringed EU laws on waste. Continue reading »
Tags: BBC, Berlusconi, court, EU, Italy, Naples, Rome, rubbish
May 06
More than 22,000 killed and 41,000 missing, Myanmar radio reports- 3.6-meter storm surge leaves more than 100,000 homeless in one area
- U.N. estimates that up to a million people could not be homeless
- Storm damage concentrated over a 30,000 square-kilometer area
A Myanmar government radio station said Tuesday that more than 22,000 people are dead and 41,000 missing after the catastrophic cyclone that battered the country.
Buddhist monks move branches from an uprooted tree blocking a street in Yangon.
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Tags: Burma cyclone, CNN, death, Myanmar, Yangon
May 06
“Dear friends, for over 25 years both my situation and my country have not progressed. Things are getting harder; more corpses than I can count are laying around as a result of economic regression. People are numb to hunger for the longest time now; it doesn’t scare us anymore.”
That’s what Haitian Renald Deraz, 27, e-mailed Beloiter Debbie Fischer after his brother starved to death. Continue reading »
Tags: BeloitDailyNews, Church, Haiti, starving
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