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FEER settles suit filed by Singapore leaders: lawyer Singapore (AFP) Nov 18, 2009 
The Far Eastern Economic Review and its editor have paid over 400,000 Singapore dollars (290,000 US) to settle a defamation suit filed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, the magazine's lawyer said Wednesday. "They have paid it yesterday," said Peter Low, who defended the Hong Kong-based publication and its editor Hugo Restall against the defamation suit filed by the premier ... read moreBerlin celebrates demise of wall 
Berlin (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 World leaders gathered in Berlin Monday for an emotional celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that heralded the end of the Cold War and culminated in Germany's reunification. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, flanked by a team of world politicians, stepped through an illuminated Brandenburg Gate to the tunes of "Wind of Change," the Scorpions ... more
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Honduran candidates ink democracy pact
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (UPI) Nov 4, 2009 Four of the six candidates in the Honduran presidential election have signed a pact binding them to a defense of democratic order, peace and freedom if any of them is elected in the Nov. 29 poll. The pact was initialed as a guarantee against misuse of power, a charge that the interim government has used against ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya to deny him return to power. Zelaya is h ... more Graft scandal shakes Indonesia's new government 
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 4, 2009Indonesia's new government has been badly shaken by a corruption scandal that has exposed fundamental flaws in its commitment to fight graft and damaged investor confidence, analysts said. Senior police and prosecutors stand accused of trying to frame two investigators from the watchdog Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) with accepting bribes, in a case that has transfixed the nation fo ... more Paraguayan president fires military chiefs amid coup rumors 
Asuncion (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has replaced his military chiefs after making accusations of a coup plot to overthrow his leftist government, officials said Thursday. Lugo, a former Catholic bishop who assumed office in August 2008, fired his army, navy and air force commanders on Wednesday, a day after claiming there were "pockets of coup-plotters" in the armed forces. He named other ... more Cold War heroes remember fall of the wall 
Berlin (UPI) Nov 2, 2009 Helmut Kohl, Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush met this weekend in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Friedrichstadtpalast cabaret in central Berlin, a few steps from where the wall once stood, is famous for its long-legged showgirls. On Saturday, however, the stage was set to host three graying Cold War leaders: Kohl, 79, who led Germany ... more |
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Walker's World: EU far right on march
Vienna (UPI) Oct 27, 2009 Europe's far right is on the move again. A new coalition of the anti-immigration and strongly nationalist parties of Europe has been forged to increase their separate weight in the European Parliament. So far, the group includes the British National Party, France's National Front, Italy's Fiamma Tricolore, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's Nationalist Front from the ... more Ben Ali wins landslide in Tunisian election: interior ministry 
Tunis (AFP) Oct 26, 2009Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali won plaudits from his peers Monday after being re-elected with 89.6 percent of the vote for a fifth term after two decades in power. The results from all of the north African country's 26 constituencies, released by the interior ministry, showed Ben Ali's score ranging from 84.1 to 93.8 percent of the vote. He did even better among overseas voters ... more Indonesia's Yudhoyono unveils rainbow cabinet 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 21, 2009Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono unveiled a rainbow cabinet Wednesday stacked with party-political appointees to lead Southeast Asia's biggest economy for the next five years. The 60-year-old liberal ex-general, who was inaugurated Tuesday, resisted pressure to name a team of non-political experts for his second and final term, and instead chose to reward coalition partners for ... more President Yudhoyono: Indonesia's gentler general 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 20, 2009Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was sworn in for a second five-year term Tuesday, is a dictator's loyal soldier turned leader of a thriving but messy democracy. A former senior general during the Suharto dictatorship, the taciturn 60-year-old has become a standard-bearer for Indonesia's haphazard reform push since the strongman's fall in 1998. Rising to power in the ... more |
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