Nobel-winning author Jose Saramago dies at 87
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87, his publisher has announced. Saramago, a communist and atheist, only began to become recognised for his work in his fifties. One of his best-known novels is Blindness, written in 1995, which tells the story of a country whose entire population lose their sight.
What's the future of NI's troubled past?
Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims may have finally achieved a sort of justice 38 years on, but with more than 3,000 deaths during Northern Ireland's Troubles, many people are still carrying around painful memories and deep resentment. Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply sorry" that British paratroopers had shot dead 13 civil rights marchers without justification on 30 January 197
Will Obama hit the ‘reset’ button on U.S.-Japan relations?
Now that Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has fallen on his sword, and the United States Japan have an opportunity to "reset" their relationship, which suffered due to the personal discord between Hatoyama and President Obama and the lingering dispute over a base in Okinawa. But will they take it? For now, the battle over the Futenma air station seems to be tabled, with the new prime ministe
Kyrgyzstan death toll could be 2,000, warns leader
Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Rosa Otunbayeva said today that the death toll from savage ethnic violence in the south of the country could be as high as 2,000, as she paid her first visit to the region since the unrest began. Otunbayeva, who pledged that the hundreds of thousands of Uzbek refugees would be allowed to return home, told Russian media that she would "multiply by 10" the official death
Sea Shepherd activists free hundreds of threatened bluefin tuna off Libya
Green activists using helicopters, divers and rotten butter yesterday confronted Libyan and Italian fishermen to release hundreds of threatened bluefin tuna which they strongly suspect were illegally caught off the Libyan coast. In the first action of its kind in north African waters, the international crew of the California-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society released around 800 tuna from a c
Army’s Hand Suspected in Kyrgyzstan (Published 2010)
Ethnic Uzbek men cried near a destroyed house in the village of Shark outside Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday. Credit...Viktor Drachev/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images OSH, Kyrgyzstan � As the armored personnel carrier rumbled down the street, men in Kyrgyz military uniforms clinging to its sides, residents of an ethnic Uzbek neighborhood here felt a surge of relief. The peacekeepers, it seemed,
Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament
By Robert Mackey June 17, 2010 9:22 am June 17, 2010 9:22 am An Al Jazeera English video report explained the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative in March. At 4 a.m. on Thursday, at the end of an all-night session, Iceland’s Parliament, the Althing, voted unanimously in favor of a package of legislation aimed at making the country a haven for freedom of expression by offering legal protection to whi
Ultra-Orthodox Jews rally round parents jailed for defying Israeli court ruling
The parents of 43 ultra-Orthodox girls were tonighton their way to prison for two weeks today after defying a court order over their children's schooling that has highlighted the division between Israel's religious and secular communities. More than 100,000 ultra-Orthodox men marched through Jerusalem to show their support. "They are going to jail with joy," said Barry Dubin, 28. "We ultra-Orthodo
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