Calm has reportedly returned to the east African nation of Eritrea a day after a group of mutinous soldiers attempted to take over the country's information ministry. More than 100 dissident sold...
https://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2013/01/22/eritrea-returns-to-calm-after-mutiny/
Syrian rights activists say the death toll from a suicide car bombing in the central province of Hama late Monday has risen to at least 42 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human R...
https://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2013/01/22/syria-activists-car-bomb-toll-at-least-42/
Japan's central bank is embarking on an American-like plan to stimulate the country's stalled economy by pumping more money into it. The Bank of Japan, under pressure from the new government of P...
https://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2013/01/22/japan-moves-to-stimulate-its-stalled-economy/
A wave of car bombings in and around the Iraqi capital has killed at least 16 people. The blasts Tuesday included an attack near an army base in Taji, 25 kilometers north of Baghdad, which killed...
https://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2013/01/22/car-bombs-kill-16-in-iraq/
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is appealing his war crimes conviction and 50-year sentence for acts of terrorism, murder, rape and recruiting child soldiers during Sierra Leone's decade...
https://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2013/01/22/charles-taylor-appeals-war-crimes-case/
An Indonesian court has sentenced a British woman to death for attempting to smuggle drugs into the resort island of Bali. Fifty-six-year-old Lindsay Sandiford cried when she heard the sentence T...
A Japanese ruling party envoy is in China for talks aimed at reducing tensions over a bitter territorial dispute. Natsuo Yamaguchi arrived Tuesday in Beijing, where he is delivering a letter from...
The rights group Amnesty International says 17 people have died from cold weather conditions in Afghan refugee camps, and it warns against a repeat of last year, when 100 people died in the camps...
https://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2013/01/22/17-die-from-cold-in-afghan-refugee-camps/
Israelis are voting Tuesday in a parliamentary election that is expected to bring a third term for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Opinion polls leading up to the vote have shown an alliance o...
https://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2013/01/22/israelis-vote-in-election-favoring-netanyahu/
Diplomats at the United Nations say the United States has reached a deal with China on tightening international sanctions against North Korea for its December rocket launch. The diplomats say the...