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Cover Story
With just over 98 per cent of the second-round presidential election vote counted, Yanukovych was shown to have won 48.4 per cent of the vote,...
08-Feb-2010
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*Inter-Korean talks maintain momentum but yield little
The negotiations were held in the North Korean town of Kaesong, home to a joint industrial zone that has attracted South Korean investment to ...
09-Feb-2010
*Dozens hurt in religious clashes in Guinea's southeast
Media reports of the number of injured vary, with some putting it above 30 wounded since 5 February, but this has not yet been ...
09-Feb-2010
*France agrees sale of warship to Russia
The agreement is for France to sell one Mistral-class amphibious assault ship to Russia in a deal worth an estimated USD600-750 million. Moscow also ...
09-Feb-2010
*Colombia and Mexico deal blow to drug cartels
According to Colombian police, their two-year Operation Fronteras (Borders) resulted in the detention of at least 21 suspected drug cartel members. These included 12 ...
09-Feb-2010
*ETA shifting base to Portugal, claims Spanish minister
Rubalcaba's comments came after the discovery the previous week of a cache of bomb-making equipment in Portugal. According to a Spanish Interior Ministry statement, ...
09-Feb-2010
*Brazil races against time to improve security
Just like China's experience with the 2008 Olympics, Brazil hopes that organising both the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro ...
09-Feb-2010
*Militants threaten Yemen's liquid gas project
The development of the multi-billion dollar liquefied natural gas industry has long been trumpeted as the biggest hope for the Yemeni economy. With revenues ...
08-Feb-2010
*Sectarian suicide bombings strike Karachi Shias
The first explosion, at about 1500 local time (1000 GMT), was caused by a suicide bomber driving a motorbike laden with explosives into a...
08-Feb-2010
*Security alerts - 10-16 February
BELARUS COUNTRY RISK: MODERATE An IMF delegation visiting Belarus from 3-16 February will assess the impact of an oil-duty agreement with Russia. The deal, ...
08-Feb-2010
Quote corner
"The South African public must make its voice heard and tell President [Jacob] Zuma to start behaving like a president and not a gigolo." ...
08-Feb-2010
International security events - 10-16 February
Date: 10-11 February Location : United States, New York Event : Talks between Morocco and Western Sahara Polisario movement ----- ...
08-Feb-2010
*Kenya continues constitutional reform debate
During a retreat to the Rift Valley oasis of Naivasha, a 27-member parliamentary panel hammered out a report containing recommendations on a draft constitution ...
08-Feb-2010
*Sino-Taiwan relations unaffected by US deal
The neologism 'Chimerica', first coined in 2006 to describe the symbiotic relationship between China and the United States, has recently been usurped. Now, with ...
08-Feb-2010
*Iran announces revolutionary enrichment plan
The announcement by Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, has been timed to coincide with the 31st anniversary of the ...
08-Feb-2010
*Yanukovych victory is likely to be challenged
With just over 98 per cent of the second-round presidential election vote counted, Yanukovych was shown to have won 48.4 per cent of the ...
08-Feb-2010
*Five Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya gun battles
The fighting occurred during a special operation in Chechnya's southwestern district of Uras-Martan. According to reports in the Russian media, the troops were conducting ...
05-Feb-2010
*Senegal villagers flee separatist attack
Djin Alen, deputy prefect of the Guinea-Bissau village of Begene, stated that the fleeing villagers had crossed the border from villages Sanou 1, 2 ...
05-Feb-2010
*Romania to host US missile defence shield
Basescu, speaking after a meeting of Romania's defence council, said missile interceptors would be based in the country from 2015 at the request of ...
05-Feb-2010
*Costa Rica prepares for presidential election
After an intense campaign, polls were predicting a victory for Laura Chinchilla of the incumbent centre-right National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación Nacional: PLN). Chinchilla ...
05-Feb-2010
*Guinea inquiry clears Camara over crackdown
Siriman Kouyate, head of the Guinean commission of inquiry into the 28 September 2009 crackdown, stated: "They [junta president Camara and Minister for Special ...
05-Feb-2010
*Pakistan blast kill US soldiers
According to the New York Times , the soldiers were among at least 60 to 100 members of a Special Operations team that was...
04-Feb-2010
*Russian leadership reacts to Kaliningrad protests
The protests were held on 30 January and were initially planned to indicate disapproval at hikes in transport taxes and utility prices. However, they ...
04-Feb-2010
Argentina protests over Falklands drilling
After summoning the British chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a diplomatic protest note, Argentine Minister of ...
04-Feb-2010
*France to face fury over burqa ban document
In June 2009, French President Nicolas Sarkozy sparked controversy by announcing, in a speech at the Palace of Versailles, that the Muslim veil was ...
04-Feb-2010
*US bolsters Middle East missile defences
The move entails stationing air defence naval assets in the waters of the Persian Gulf and deploying eight Patriot anti-ballistic missile batteries to four ...
04-Feb-2010
*Bosnian police raid isolated Muslim village
Approximately 600 officers from both major entities in Bosnia, the Republika Srpska (RS) and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, took part in the raid, named ...
03-Feb-2010
*Russia and Ukraine trade spying accusations
The Security Service of Ukraine (Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrayiny: SBU) announced on 2 February that it had expelled four Russian nationals from the country for ...
03-Feb-2010
*Somalia's Shabab aligns with Al-Qaeda
The Shabab statement said that the "jihad of Horn of Africa must be combined with the international jihad led by the Al-Qaeda network". The ...
02-Feb-2010
*Niger Delta militants threaten fresh attacks
In announcing the end of the ceasefire, Jomo Gbomo (a pseudonym used by MEND in email correspondence) stated: "It is sufficiently clear at this ...
02-Feb-2010
*Arturo Chávez Chávez, Mexico's attorney general
Four months into his tenure as Mexico's attorney general, Arturo Chávez Chávez has presided over perhaps the largest spike in drug-related killings on record, ...
02-Feb-2010
*US 2011 federal budget leaves security spending unaffected
Commenting on foreign policy implications of the budget, Jacob Lew, Department of State Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, declared that the budget provided ...
02-Feb-2010
*Antigua faces repercussions after tourist murder
The Dominican national was detained on 29 January by Antiguan police investigating the 19 January murder of a 29-year-old US tourist, Nina Elizabeth Nilssen. ...
02-Feb-2010
*Cypriot leaders vow to continue talks
Speaking to a press conference at a UN compound in Nicosia, Ban said: "I am encouraged that the two leaders personally assured me of ...
02-Feb-2010
Killings halt work on PNG gas project
On 30 January, young men from Boera threw stones at villagers from Porebada. In response, a "truckload" of Porebada villagers travelled to Boera to...
02-Feb-2010
*Rivals vie for control of Mexican drugs cartel
Mexican security forces effectively decapitated the Beltrán Leyva leadership with the fatal shooting of Arturo Beltrán Leyva ('El Barbas' or 'Beards') in late 2009. ...
02-Feb-2010
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