Murder of Alfredo Villatoro blamed on drug gangs
A prominent Honduran radio journalist was killed by drug gangs in retaliation for a government crackdown on cartels, the country’s security minister said on Wednesday. Alfredo Villatoro, a well-known media personality, was found shot in the head on Tuesday a week after being kidnapped, the latest attack on the media in the violent Central American More...
Obama honours Vietnam War soldier 42 years later
US President Barack Obama has awarded the Medal of Honor to a Vietnam War soldier, four decades after his original recommendation was lost. Specialist Leslie Sabo was recognised for his bravery when his platoon More...
South Yemen air strikes ‘kill 16′ in Abyan
Yemeni troops have killed at least 16 suspected militants in air strikes in Abyan province, officials say. Another 13 people, most of them militants, died in fighting elsewhere in Abyan province, reports say. Government More...
Sniffer dog nabs smuggler hiding heroin in rectum
A man who tried to smuggle heroin into the United States concealed in his rectum was caught by U.S. officials – with the help of a drug-sniffer dog named Malone – as he walked across the border from More...
Syria losing information war, says Assad
Syria is losing the information war against the West, President Bashar al-Assad has admitted, as violence continued across the country. “They outplayed us… at the very beginning of the crisis – More...
French PM Jean-Marc Ayrault names new government
France’s new Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has named his government, a day after Francois Hollande was inaugurated as president. Hollande campaign chief Pierre Moscovici has been given the role More...
New Palestinian cabinet sworn in
Palestinian Authority President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas has sworn in a new cabinet in the West Bank. Salam Fayyad, who is popular with the West, was retained as prime minister but had to relinquish his influential More...
Texas ‘executed an innocent man’
The US state of Texas is likely to have executed an innocent man due to careless handling of the case, a report by US law students claims. Carlos de Luna was killed by lethal injection in 1989 for the brutal murder More...