PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s biggest oil refinery remained shut down Tuesday after firefighters extinguished a blaze that raged for more than three days following an explosion that killed at least 41 people.
While fuel…
LONDON (AP) — An employee of the Activision Blizzard gaming company says U.S. sanctions are to blame for locking Iranian players out of the popular online fantasy role-playing adventure “World of Warcraft.”
Iranians have spent muc…
Mitt Romney swept to the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night at a storm-delayed national convention scripted to propel him into a close race…
[IFRC]Narrow alleyways snake through the ramshackle Mabela slum, which sits on a slope facing the sea in Freetown. Rain washes down waste, turning the path gray and slippery. Mothers wash their toddlers next door to food vendors and pigs foraging on ga…
Republicans have nominated Rep.
A camera on the International Space Station captured Hurricane Isaac from 253 miles above the earth as it approached the southeast coast of Louisiana….
[State Department]Washington -Peace Corps volunteer Aisha Kennedy of Los Angeles, California, is working with her community in Rwanda to build a multipurpose cafeteria in a local secondary school that will provide nearly 500 students and teachers with …
[HRW]Mombasa -The Kenyan government should establish an independent inquiry into the killing of Aboud Rogo, a controversial cleric, on August 27, 2012, and subsequent riots in Mombasa.
[CPJ]Police in Dakar -Police in Dakar, the capital, summoned Alassane Samba Diop, director of Radio Futurs Médias (RFM), for four hours of questioning on August 25, 2012, over an interview he broadcast the night before with the leader of a hardline Is…
[Moroccan American Center for Policy]Washington, DC -Following a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani in Rabat last week, Senator Joe Lieberman (CT) praised Morocco’s peaceful model of political reform and urged speedy implementat…
