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Rape of women in DR Congo 'tops 1000 a day'

More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), making sexual violence against women 26 times more common than previously thought, a study has concluded. More than 400,000 women and girls between the ages of 15 to 49 were raped in the war-ravaged country in central Africa during a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007,.. More

167625 12/05/2011
UN: Libyan refugee crisis worsening

The UN has said that almost 40,000 people have fled fighting in Libya's Western Mountains region in the past month. Thousands of ethnic Berbers from Libya fled into Tunisia after a brief hiatus in their exodus last week because of fighting between Gaddafi troops and opposition forces for control of a border crossing point. "This past weekend,.. More

167433 04/05/2011
North Korea 'holding 200,000 prisoners'

Amnesty International says new satellite images and testimony from a former inmate show North Korea is holding around 200,000 people in its huge network of political prison camps where torture is rampant and conditions near slavery. The human rights group based in London released on Wednesday recent satellite photos which show four of six camps located.. More

167431 04/05/2011
Arctic ice melt 'alarming'

Ice in Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting dramatically faster than was earlier projected and could raise global sea levels by as much as 1.6 meters by 2100, says a new study. The study released on Tuesday by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) said there is a "need for greater urgency" in fighting global warming.. More

167427 04/05/2011
Deraa: A city under a dark siege

As darkness fell across it, Deraa was a city under siege. Tanks and troops control all roads in and out. Inside the city, shops are shuttered and nobody dare walk the once bustling market streets, today transformed into the kill zone of rooftop snipers. Trapped and terrified inside their homes, families are running low on food and drinking water,.. More

167303 28/04/2011
'Guantanamo files': Dozens held were innocent

The United States released dozens of so-called "high-risk" detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and held more than 150 innocent men for years, according to new reports about a trove of leaked military documents. The more than 700 classified military files, part of a massive cache of secret documents leaked to the whistle-blowing.. More

167233 26/04/2011
Inside Dar'aa

The only outside visitors the people of Daraa are allowed to receive these days are friends and family attending funerals. To access the city where Syria's uprising began, a local reporter simply had to tell the guards at the first checkpoint the truth: The husband of his wife's cousin had been killed while protesting for freedom and he was there to.. More

167085 21/04/2011
Under Gaddafi's eyes

Benghazi internal security headquarters, November 3, 1990. A fax arrives at 10:30 in the morning, addressed to the director from the head office in Tripoli. "We received information about some of the suspicious people," it begins. A list of names and paragraphs of information follow. One man is singled out for listening to religious tape.. More

166935 18/04/2011
'CIA has no plans to suspend drone strikes in Pakistan'

According to a report in the Washington Post, US defense officials have claimed that there is no plan to suspend or restrict the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan, and that the agency has not been asked to pull any of its employees out of Pakistan. US and Pakistan’s relationship was the focus of a nearly four-hour meeting Monday at the.. More

166843 14/04/2011
Alcohol drink blamed for oral cancer rise

Alcohol is largely to blame for an "alarming" rise in the rate of oral cancers among men and women in their forties, say experts. Numbers of cancers of the lip, mouth, tongue and throat in this age group have risen by 26% in the past decade. Alcohol consumption has doubled since the 1950s and is the most likely culprit alongside smoking,.. More

166823 14/04/2011
French face veil ban comes into force

A controversial ban on face veils has come into force in France, meaning anyone wearing the Muslim Niqab or Burqa in public will face a fine of up to $216 and a citizenship course. A number of Muslims are urging women to defy the ban, including a property dealer who is offering to sell a building worth millions in order to fund his campaign. Rachid.. More

166697 11/04/2011
Israel arrests 100 Palestinian women in latest round-up

Israeli troops arrested 100 Palestinian women in an overnight raid Thursday, the latest in a series of round-ups around the West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli troops stormed a village near Nablus early Thursday, arresting more than 100 women, local officials said. Hundreds of troops entered Awarta shortly after midnight and imposed a curfew after which.. More

166597 07/04/2011
Exercise preserves, builds heart muscle

Consistent lifelong exercise preserves heart muscle in the elderly to levels that match or even exceed that of healthy young sedentary people, a surprising finding that underscores the value of regular exercise training, according to a new study. The first study to evaluate the effects of varying levels of lifelong exercise on heart mass was presented.. More

166341 03/04/2011
Libyan Karzai? Chalabi? Forget it

NATO's political mission "should swiftly identify and nurture a national opposition and plot the path for a post-conflict transition to democracy, probably under UN auspices", or so advises the Financial Times in its lead editorial, "Plotting the Way Forward". Both the title and the advice are borrowed from a past era: the post-Afghanista.. More

166257 30/03/2011
US Muslims 'face growing discrimination'

Muslim citizens of the United States face growing discrimination in daily life, manifesting itself in violence, vandalism and arson, a US congressional panel has been told. Speakers on Tuesday said that evidence of anti-Muslim bigotry included inflammatory remarks made by elected public officials. "We continue to solicit and receive the support.. More

166253 30/03/2011

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