Published:Thursday | April 30, 2009 | 1:43 PM The United States is appealing to European nations to accept detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to help the Obama administration close down the prison facility.
Published:Thursday | April 30, 2009 | 1:42 PM The Netherlands has confirmed its first case of swine flu, in a three-year-old boy who recently returned from Mexico.
Published:Thursday | April 30, 2009 | 9:15 AM A U.S-based foreign exchange entity of which Olint boss, David Smith was a principal has been fined for failing to put in place a proper anti-money laundering programme.
Published:Thursday | April 30, 2009 | 9:14 AM Egypt has started a mass slaughtering of pigs in an effort to prevent swine flu from spreading.
Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2009 | 6:38 PM The World Health Organisation, WHO, has raised the level of its swine flu alert a notch higher, signaling that a pandemic is imminent.
Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2009 | 12:51 PM A Russian warship has seized a pirate vessel with 29 people on board off the Somali coast.
Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2009 | 12:28 PM Officials in the United States have confirmed the death of a 23 month old child in Texas from the new strain of swine flu.
Published:Wednesday | April 29, 2009 | 8:56 AM US Republican Senator Arlen Specter is to switch sides and become a Democrat.
Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2009 | 6:02 PM Mexico City has banned restaurants and cafes from serving all food except takeaways in a bid to help prevent the spread of the deadly swine flu virus.
Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2009 | 6:02 PM Israel has confirmed its second case of swine flu.
Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2009 | 1:08 PM The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said it will be sending a team to investigate allegations that industrial pig farms in Mexico were the source of the swine flu outbreak.
Published:Tuesday | April 28, 2009 | 8:32 AM A Yemeni oil tanker hijacked in the Gulf of Aden was freed yesterday and the 11 Somali pirates arrested.
Published:Monday | April 27, 2009 | 6:09 PM Brazil says it has no plans to withdraw its troops from Haiti, despite military cutbacks.
Published:Monday | April 27, 2009 | 1:07 PM Ecuador\'s President Rafael Correa has claimed victory in the country\'s election after two exit polls indicated he had more than 50 per cent of the vote.
Published:Monday | April 27, 2009 | 1:07 PM The United States said it will soon decide what to do with a group of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Published:Friday | April 24, 2009 | 5:55 PM A Bill calling for Caribbean nationals to have their own origins category on the US Census form has been introduced in the House of Representatives.
Published:Friday | April 24, 2009 | 5:54 PM A suspected outbreak of swine flu in Mexico has left 60 people dead and hundreds infected since the middle of March.
Published:Friday | April 24, 2009 | 1:00 PM At least 60 people are now dead and another 125 injured following a double suicide bombing at a shrine in Baghdad.
Published:Friday | April 24, 2009 | 12:58 PM Eleven Somali men accused of piracy are to stand trial in a Kenyan court.
Published:Friday | April 24, 2009 | 9:11 AM Iraqi government officials have described yesterday as the bloodiest day in the nation’s history with as much as 90 deaths in one day.
Published:Thursday | April 23, 2009 | 1:13 PM At least 22 people are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up in Baghdad.
Published:Thursday | April 23, 2009 | 1:12 PM Diego Murillo, a leader of a Colombian right-wing paramilitary group, has been jailed for 31 years by a New York court for drug trafficking.
Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2009 | 6:10 PM The acting chief financial officer of struggling US mortgage giant Freddie Mac has reportedly committed suicide.
Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2009 | 1:27 PM South Africans are voting today in what is likely to be the most competitive general election since the end of apartheid in 1994.
Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2009 | 8:43 AM They CNN is reporting that nine of the 11 Pakistanis who were being held in an alleged terror plot in northern England have been released.
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