World Report
Jerusalem:One Dead in Blast at Jerusalem Bus Station
by Gil Ronen and Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
An explosion across from Jerusalem's Central Bus Station Wednesday afternoon in Jerusalem killed one elderly woman and wounded 50 others, two seriously. The explosive charge was placed at a public telephone booth and was detonated as two packed buses passed by. The buses sustained moderate damage in the explosion. The terrorist who planted the bomb apparently escaped the scene. Security officials said there were no specific indications of an impending terrorist attack in Israel's capital. Jerusalem's Mayor, Nir Barkat, was on the scene minutes after the blast encouraging citizens not to allow the attack to change their lives. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was in his Jerusalem residence, preparing to fly to Moscow, when the bombing occurred. Wednesday's attack was the first major terrorist incident in Jerusalem since the tractor attacks and the massacre of eight people at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in March 2008. Arutz Sheva
Munich:
German prosecutors Tuesday said John Demjanjuk, 90, should serve six years in jail for helping to kill 27,900 Jews during his time as a Nazi death camp guard, as his trial neared an end. Summing up in the high-profile war crimes case, expected to be one of the last of its kind, prosecutor Hans-Joachim Lutz said Mr. Demjanjuk had participated willingly in the Holocaust during a six-month stint as a guard. "Armed with a weapon, he transported the victims from the wagons, undressed them and led them into the gas chambers. He participated willingly in the murder of 27,900 Jews." Agence France-Presse
Kiev:
Ukraine opened a murder case Tuesday against former president Leonid Kuchma over the 2000 beheading of journalist Georgy Gongadze in what became the most notorious crime in its post-Soviet history. The announcement by prosecutors came after years of pressure from Mr. Kuchma's opponents for the former president to face trial over the brutal killing of the critical journalist and founder of the Ukrainska Pravda news site. "A criminal case has been opened against Leonid Kuchma. He is suspected of implication in the murder of Georgy Gongadze", deputy prosecutor general Renat Kuzmin told reporters. Agence France-Presse
Bahrain:
Activists and medical staff have been arrested or harassed in Bahrain, where up to 200 people have been reported missing since a crackdown last week, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. It called on Bahrain authorities to uphold international law, underlining that demonstrating peacefully or giving an interview to a journalist is not a crime. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has also received accounts of security forces beating protesters and preventing injured from receiving medical treatment. "The situation in Bahrain remains very worrying, with more people reported killed and between 50 - 100 reported missing over the past week". Reuters
Daraa:
The Syrian town of Daraa saw a fifth straight day of anti-regime protests on Tuesday, an activist said, as a rights group reported the arrest of a writer demanding freedom of expression. "Around one thousand protesters gathered in and around the Omari mosque shouting anti-regime slogans, amid a heavy security and army presence", said the activist in Daraa, 100 kilometres south of Damascus. The demonstrators formed a human shield around the mosque to prevent security forces from approaching it. Agence France-Presse
Karachi:
Pakistani paramilitary troops raided a densely populated area of the nation's financial capital, Karachi, to control political and ethnic violence that has killed 223 people since March 29. One man was killed and several detained with weapons in the raid at Liaquatabad, a neighbourhood dominated by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. The MQM is a political party that mainly represents people whose families moved to Pakistan from what is now India when Britain partitioned the subcontinent in 1947. This month's upheaval and violence is part of a contest for political power in the city of 18 million. Bloomberg News
Caracas:
Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday. "I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet", Mr. Chavez said in a speech to mark World Water Day. Mr. Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up. "Careful! Here on planet Earth where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts." He added that the West's attacks on Libya were about water and oil reserves. Reuters
Labels: World Crises, World News
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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