African leaders urge ICC to transfer charge against Kenyan President
African leaders on Monday asked the International Criminal Court to transfer charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to the Kenyan legal system. The African Union summit, which ended Monday in Addis Ababa, agreed to press the United Nations to move the charges against Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, to Kenya. African leaders believe that […]
EU ends arms embargo on Syrian rebels to press Assad’s regime
The European Union said its member states within days will be able to send weapons to help Syria’s outgunned rebels, seeking to pressure President Bashar Assad’s regime ahead of planned peace talks mediated by the United States and Russia. Though no EU country has any such plans now to send arms, British Foreign Secretary William […]
China, US officials pave way for first Xi-Obama summit in early June
Chinese President Xi Jinping met U.S. National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon on Monday, forecasting that his upcoming talks with U.S. President Barack Obama will feature discussions on important and strategic issues. “I look forward to meeting with President Obama in California in earlier June,” Xi said at the start of his meeting with Donilon. Xi […]
Bangkok ranked world’s top tourist destination
Bangkok has emerged as the world’s top tourist destination, with 15.98 million visitors projected to visit the Thailand’s capital city this year, according to the 2013 Global Destination Cities Index released by MasterCard on May 27. Bangkok surpassed London for the first time for the most popular destination city in the world. The index ranks […]
Cannes awards give global recognition for Asian cinema
A clutch of awards at the Cannes Film Festival has given global prominence to what insiders say is a bold era in Asian filmmaking, where China is emerging as a creative power. Directors from China, Japan, Singapore and Cambodia took to the stage at the Palais des Festivals where the world’s most prestigious movie bash […]
Israeli and Palestinian President shake hands at World Economic Forum
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas all shake hands during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea in Jordan Sunday May 26, 2013. <AP Photo/Pool, Jim Young> Israeli President Shimon […]
UN Secretary-General Ban visits Heal Africa hospital in Goma, Congo
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo’s troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed. The U.N. chief traveled to Congo, and specifically to Goma, for the first time since the Security Council authorized […]
A woodpecker stores seeds at UN Park El Picacho in Honduras
A jaguar takes a rest at the United Nations Park El Picacho in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras on May 22, 2013, the International Day for Biological Diversity. A woodpecker stores seeds in a tree at the United Nations Park El Picacho in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras on May 22, 2013, the International Day for Biological […]
US Secretary of State Kerry meets with Palestinian President Abbas
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, May 23, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Jerusalem Thursday, May 23, 2013. The United States and Israel raised hopes […]
US Secretary of State Kerry meets Omani Sultan to discuss Syria plan
Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East on Monday to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad’s regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia. Kerry will first have discussions with the sultan of Oman. He […]
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