ALGIERS, Algeria, (Reuters) – The death toll has risen to at least 48 hostages killed during a four-day siege at a gas plant deep in the Sahara as a veteran Islamist fighter claimed responsibility on behalf of al Qaeda for the attack.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama took the official oath for his second term yesterday at the White House in a small, private ceremony that set a more subdued tone compared to the historic start of his presidency four years ago.
JAIPUR, India, (Reuters) – Rahul Gandhi embraced his role as a leading contender for India’s next prime minister in a speech yesterday that spoke of his family’s tragic history but yielded few clues about his views on politics and the economy.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A DNA investigation of bloodstained clothes and body swabs has linked all five men and a juvenile accused of the gang rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi to the crime, providing evidence the prosecution claims will be enough to convict them.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A DNA investigation of bloodstained clothes and body swabs has linked all five men and a juvenile accused of the gang rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi to the crime, providing evidence the prosecution claims will be enough to convict them.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama took the official oath for his second term today at the White House in a small, private ceremony that set a more subdued tone compared to the historic start of his presidency four years ago.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government is open to improving troubled ties with Washington and is considering a U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – London’s Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights and airlines scrapped 40 percent of flights to Paris’s main airports as snow continued to blanket parts of Europe, with more forecast.
ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Twenty-five bodies have been discovered by Algeria’s army in the gas facility attacked by militants in the desert, private Algerian television station Ennahar said today, adding that the operation to clear the base would last 48 hours.
ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria (Reuters) – The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamist militants at a desert gas plant yesterday in which 23 hostages were killed, many of them believed to be foreigners, the interior ministry said.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States and China have struck a tentative deal on a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning North Korea for its December rocket launch, UN diplomats said on Friday, and Russia predicted it would be approved by the council.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s vice president hit out at the country’s business leaders yesterday, saying they were seeking to destabilize the nation while cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez fights to recover from surgery.
(Reuters) – Pro-gun activists who say the right to own firearms is under attack from President Barack Obama’s proposals to reduce gun violence held “high noon” rallies across the United States yesterday in support of gun ownership rights.
ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria, (Reuters) – The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamist militants at a desert gas plant today in which 23 hostages were killed, many of them believed to be foreigners, the interior ministry said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s vice president hit out at the country’s business leaders today, saying they were seeking to destabilize the nation while cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez fights to recover from surgery.
(Reuters) – By seizing hundreds of hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, al Qaeda-linked militants angry at French intervention in Mali sent a clear message: they could strike anywhere in the Sahara.
ALGIERS, (Reuters) – The field commander of the Islamist group that attacked a gas plant in the Algerian desert this week and seized many hostages is a veteran fighter from Niger called Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri, Mauritanian news agencies reported.
ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Algerian special forces today found 15 burned bodies at the desert gas plant attacked by al Qaeda-linked fighters, a source familiar with the unfolding hostage crisis there said.
LONDON/ALGIERS, (Reuters) – The In Amenas gas plant felt impregnable to many who worked there – walled in, hundreds of miles from anywhere and with the Algerian army constantly patrolling its desert approaches.
HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwean rights groups yesterday condemned what they called an escalating campaign against critics of veteran President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party ahead of elections expected this year.
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