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UK seeks law change after Livini arrest warrant
Mohammed Yahya on 12/17/2009 at 12:01am (UTC) | | | UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the government is looking at ways Britain's laws can be changed following an arrest warrant was issued for former Israeli regime foreign minister on war crimes charges.
Miliband said in a statement late yesterday, after Israel summoned the British ambassador to protest.
Westminster magistrates court issued the warrant at the request of lawyers acting for Palestinian victims of Israeli occupying regime in Gaza earlier this year.
The warrant was later dropped after it was realized that Livni had cancelled her trip to Britain.
Human rights groups and U.N. investigators have charged Israeli regime of war crimes in the Gaza Strip during a 22-day offensive against Gaza city in which more than 900 civilians died.
Livni, who is head of the opposition Kadima Party, played a key role in launching the massacre.
In September human rights groups called on London court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli regime War Minister Ehud Barak, who also committed crimes in the incursion. | | | |
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Mohammed Yahya on 12/14/2009 at 4:22pm (UTC) | |
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By Mohammed Yahya on 12/14/2009 at 11:55am (UTC) | |
Iraq sees foreign interference in elections
By Mohammed Yahya on 12/14/2009 at 12:46am (UTC) | | | Iraq sees foreign interference in
elections
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari says many regional countries are trying
to interfere in the country's upcoming elections.
"Many regional governments and countries are really involved in supporting and
siding with certain Iraqi groups in the elections," Hoshiyar Zebari said on the
sidelines of a security conference in Bahrain.
The presidency council said this week the poll, Iraq's first since 2005, would
take place on March 7.
"Definitely I think there will be a lot of regional interference in these
elections, in different forms -- in offering financial, political, media
support, different ways to different groups... we need to be careful to prevent
that from happening or affecting our elections," he added.
The United States still has thousands of troops in Iraq backing the government
of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Many Saudis were among the foreign militants who went to Iraq after the 2003
U.S.-led invasion.
Violence has dipped sharply in Iraq over the past 18 months but the recent
bombings have stoked doubts about the ability of Iraqi security forces to keep
the peace before the elections.
Militants linked to al Qaeda claimed bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday that police
said killed 112 people.
"The government is really reviewing now its security measures and policies and
there is definitely a need to take stronger measures against any breaches,"
Zebari said.
No measures have been taken so far, he said.
"This upcoming election will be diversified because there are going to be four
or five parliamentary blocks," Zebari said. "Neither one or two or three would
be able to form a government. There will be a need for a broader coalition."
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Chavez boost ties with Cuba, visits Fidel Castro
By Mohammed Yahya on 12/14/2009 at 12:41am (UTC) | | | Chavez boost ties with Cuba,
visits Fidel Castro
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed 3.2 billion dollars' worth of
cooperation agreements with Cuba and said former Cuban leader Fidel Castro was
in great health, after visiting him at his home.
Chavez arrived Friday in Havana for a meeting Sunday of the regional ALBA group,
and met shortly after landing with President Raul Castro, who took over from his
now 83-year-old brother Fidel after the longtime Cuban leader underwent surgery
in 2006.
"Fidel is better than all of us... I told Raul that Fidel will bury us all,"
Chavez said after his meeting with the Cuban president. Recently there were
rumors Fidel Castro was close to dying.
Chavez and Raul Castro, 77, on Saturday signed some 285 cooperation agreements
worth 3.2 billion dollars, which will go into effect in 2010.
Close political partners Cuba and Venezuela have expanded their economic ties
since 2000, reaching a cumulative exchange of 8.7 billion dollars, said Chavez'
Oil and Energy Minister Rafael Rodriguez, who is also visiting there.
The agreements, he said, chiefly cover the health, education, farming and energy
sectors.
Chavez and Raul Castro will on Sunday attend in Havana a summit of the ALBA, a
bloc Chavez founded in 2004 as a counterweight to the US-sponsored Free Trade
Area of the Americas.
ALBA's nine members include Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda.
Chavez also said he would try to convince Fidel Castro to joint the two-day ALBA
summit either Sunday or Monday. Fidel Castro has not been seen in public since
his July 2006 operation | | | |
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Kosovo elects mayors in local polls
By Mohammed Yahya on 12/14/2009 at 12:37am (UTC) | | | Kosovo elects mayors in local
polls
Voters in many towns across Kosovo were casting ballots Sunday in runoffs to
select mayors as the nation completes its first election since unilaterally
declaring independence from Serbia last year.
The second round vote for mayors was organized in 21 out of 36 towns and
municipalities where candidates failed to win a 50 percent majority at the
November 15 polls.
Polling stations opened at 7:00 am (0600 GMT) and were due to close at 7:00 pm.
The first unofficial results are expected during the next week.
Almost one million people are eligible to vote in the runoff as the two main and
governing parties, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) of Prime Minister Hashim
Thaci and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) of President Fatmir Sejdiu
compete to win a majority.
The PDK, which won in five towns in the first round, has candidates running in
16 towns, while its junior coalition party, the LDK, which won two towns,
including the capital Pristina, is runing in 12 towns.
The polls for municipal councils and mayors in the first round attracted around
45 percent of 1.5 million eligible voters as Kosovo sought to show it could
organize free, fair and peaceful elections after it unilaterally declared
independence in February 2008, despite strong opposition from Serbia.
The independence of Kosovo, whose 90 percent population are ethnic Albanians, is
recognized by 63 countries, including the United States and other major western
powers.
Belgrade had called on Serbs to boycott the polls, but some cast ballots in
parts of Kosovo, winning mayoral posts in three municipalities in central
Kosovo, where they make up the majority of population.
Election authorities said that Kosovo police have stepped up security for the
voting.
"The (runoff) elections are secured by around 4,000 police officers," the
election commission said Saturday in a press release.
The polls were set to be monitored by hundreds of local and international
observers.
Observers of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO),
which deployed more than 100 people throughout Kosovo during the first round
vote, said they had met "many" international standards | | | |
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