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BBC – The unknown attackers used rocks, clubs, firebombs and shotguns. The protesters retaliated, beating some assailants. Soldiers and police have now intervened to stop the clashes, but as long as six hours after the violence started. Two leading presidential candidates have suspended campaigning in protest at the way authorities handled it. Read article
BBC – Junta forces are going through the camp looking for any remaining troops, a witness told the BBC. The shooting broke out late on Monday after reports that the leaders of the presidential guard would be arrested. The army toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure in March but officially stepped aside three weeks later. However, the junta still wields considerable influence and holds three cabinet posts. Read article
BBC – Mali’s coup leaders have said they are in control of the situation in Bamako, after hours of fighting in the capital. In a message on TV, they said they held the state broadcasting building, the airport and army barracks after a counter-coup attempt by loyalists of ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure. Read article
Guardian – The UN security council has voted to dramatically expand its monitoring mission in Syria, paving the way for up to 300 peacekeepers to be deployed to a country which has been brought to the brink of civil war in 13 months of violence. The resolution called on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as well as armed opposition groups, to cease all violence and for the government to respect its commitment to the security council to withdraw heavy weapons. Read article
BBC – Mr Toure arrived with “his entire family” of about 15 people, a Senegalese official said. He had been in hiding but earlier this week it was revealed that he was in the Senegalese embassy in Mali. Journalist Martin Vogl says the nighttime escape is a sad end for a man seen as a great African statesman. Read article
AFP – US President Barack Obama has approved non-lethal US aid, including communications equipment and medicines for Syria’s rebels, and plans to increase the package over time, a US official said Friday. The administration had previously indicated it would take such a step, in line with an initiative by the international “Friends of Syria” group to bolster opponents of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Read article
Press TV – According to experts, massive deforestation caused by commercial farming led to the deadly floods which struck Thailand last year, killing at least 700 people. As a result of the flooding, Thailand suffered great losses in its farming sector. The country’s crop sector also witnessed a three percent contraction during the first three months of this year. Read article
Independent – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overruled the planned eviction on Tuesday of Jewish settlers from a building in an occupied West Bank city that is flashpoint of tensions with Palestinians. Some 20 settlers moved into the Hebron building last Thursday at night, seeking to expand a settlement of some 500 families in the heart of a biblical city overwhelmingly populated by Palestinians who regard Israelis as interlopers. Read article
BBC – West African leaders had given Mali’s junta until Monday to leave power or face sanctions. The army said it had staged its coup because the campaign against the Tuareg rebels had been poorly run. But the Tuareg fighters have responded by making rapid advances. Read article
BBC – The foreign ministry has reportedly told its envoy in Geneva not to co-operate with the council or with UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay. It will also prevent a UN team entering Israel to assess the effects of settlements on Palestinian rights. Last week, Israel said the decision to establish the probe was “surrealistic”. Read article
VoaNews – Opponents of last week’s military coup in Mali staged a demonstration in the capital, Bamako, on Monday. A new political and civil society front is calling on coup leaders to negotiate a rapid return to civilian rule, as international pressure grows on the junta to step aside. Read article
AP – The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected the state’s request to postpone dismantling a large, unsanctioned West Bank settler enclave until late 2015, dealing a serious blow to settler hopes to keep dozens of rogue outposts standing. The ruling could ignite a violent showdown with settlers, who have vowed in the past not to abandon their hilltop stronghold, Migron. Settler leader Shimon Riklin, one of the enclave’s founders, told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that the evacuation of Migron “would not pass quietly.” Read article
Whether it’s an ongoing or lingering pandemic, a natural disaster, or conflict, a humanitarian crisis is an event or series of events which represents a critical threat to the wellbeing of a community or other large group of people. Recent examples of Humanitarian Crisis include the case of bird flu, the nuclear fallout in Japan, the Iraq war and the earthquake of Haiti. Find out about such news from around the world by reading our Humanitarian Crisis news archive of 305 articles CLICK HERE
Reuters – The Red Cross delivered emergency aid to areas around the battered Baba Amro district of the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, but was blocked for a third day from entering the former rebel bastion amid reports of bloody reprisals by state forces. Activists reported shelling and other violence across Syria, sending one of the biggest surges of refugees across the border into Lebanon in a single day since a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began a year ago. Read Article
Reuters – Syrian government forces killed at least 100 people on Tuesday in assaults on villages and an artillery barrage in the restive city of Homs, activists said, and the Red Cross called for daily ceasefires to allow in urgently needed aid. Washington, which is preparing for a “Friends of Syria” meeting of Western and Arab states opposing President Bashar al-Assad, declined to rule out eventually providing arms to rebels seeking to overthrow him. Read Article
Reuters – Nearly a year after a huge quake and tsunami sparked Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, then-premier Naoto Kan is haunted by the specter of an even bigger disaster forcing tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo and threatening the nation’s existence.
Two weeks after the crisis in March, the head of Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission drew up a worst-case scenario. It was presented to Kan, but never officially released to the public. Read article
Reuters – Thousands of ethnic Kachin refugees flee from long-running conflict while Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives a human rights award. Sunita Rappai reports.
Indpendent – About 22,000 people have fled fighting in Mali to the neighboring
countries of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mauritania, the United Nations said today. Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told reporters in Geneva that most of the 10,000 refugees who have arrived in Niger are sleeping in the open with little access to shelter, clean water, food or medicine. He said a further 9,000 have arrived in Mauritania and 3,000 have fled to Burkina Faso because of attacks that started Jan. 17 by a Tuareg rebel group known as the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad. Read Article
The Telegraph – Four of the corpses are sprawled over a shiny-new Dodge Ram pick-up truck that has been pierced so many times it resembles a cheese-grater. The bodies are contorted in the unnatural poses of the dead – arms arched over spines, legs spread out sideways. The fifth man is a moustached 48-year-old lying 10 feet from the pick-up, bathed in his own blood. His eyes are wide open, his right hand stretched upward clasping a 9-mm pistol – a death pose that could have been set up for a Hollywood movie. Read Article
Nature – Natural disasters around the world last year caused a record US$380 billion in economic losses. That’s more than twice the tally for 2010, and about $115 billion more than in the previous record year of 2005, according to a report from Munich Re, a reinsurance group in Germany. But other work emphasizes that it is too soon to blame the economic devastation on climate change. Almost two-thirds of 2011’s exceptionally high costs are attributable to two disasters unrelated to climate and weather: the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, and February’s comparatively small but unusually destructive magnitude-6.3 quake in New Zealand. Read article
Whether it’s an ongoing or lingering pandemic, a natural disaster, or conflict, a humanitarian crisis is an event or series of events which represents a critical threat to the wellbeing of a community or other large group of people. Recent examples of Humanitarian Crisis include the case of bird flu, the nuclear fallout in Japan, the Iraq war and the earthquake of Haiti. Find out about such news from around the world by reading our Humanitarian Crisis news archive of 297 articles CLICK HERE
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