Topic: World Politics
Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has died, the country's top civilian security official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. It was the government's first categorical confirmation of the death of the feared militant, whose passing is likely to weaken, but not vanquish, the al-Qaida-linked insurgent network he led. Reports of Mehsud's death emerged after a spate ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan chaired his first cabinet meeting as acting head of state on Wednesday, seeking to revive government business after more than two months of stagnation. Jonathan assumed full presidential powers late on Tuesday to fill a power vacuum left by the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has been in hospital in Saudi ...
EL-FASHER, Sudan (Reuters) - Militias raided a Darfur refugee camp, shooting dead two people and injuring at least 10 in an escalation of tensions in Sudan's restive west, witnesses and U.N. officials said Wednesday. The raid followed the murder of a militia member's relative who appeared to be searching the camps in Kass, South Darfur for the suspect ...
