Month: April 2011

THE US state of Alabama says that it’s switching a key drug used in lethal injections earlier than expected, a move that will be challenged by a condemned inmate scheduled to die in less than […] […]

FRANCE and Italy have proposed a reform of Europe’s open-borders treaty that would allow member states to re-impose internal frontier controls temporarily in case of a major influx of migrants. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and […] […]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has expressed “increasingly grave concern” at the bloody crackdown on protesters in Syria, especially at the use of tanks and live ammunition by security forces. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has expressed […] […]

Japan’s royal couple have made their first visit to the country’s tsunami-ravaged northeast coast to comfort thousands of survivors still huddling in evacuation shelters. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, living symbols of the nation’s unity, […] […]

A female Toronto police officer felt compelled to pretend she was in a lesbian relationship to fend off the advances of her commander, according to an affidavit filed in advance of a police tribunal hearing […] […]

Egyptian security officials say an explosion at a gas terminal near Egypt’s border with Israel has sent flames shooting into the air and forced the shutdown of the pipeline. It is the second attack on […] […]

Libyan government forces are continuing to bombard the port of Misrata, in a relentless assault on the sole lifeline of a battered population that has been under siege for the past two months. While forces […] […]

French authorities have issued an international search alert for murder suspect Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès amid evidence that he carefully planned the killing of his wife and four children. The 50-year-old businessman is wanted after […] […]

Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to build a new society based on respect. He also called on Europeans […] […]