Current Afp News Results

Climate change threatens rural poor - United Press International
... decreasing and erratic availability of water," said Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute, which released a report to coincide with World Water Week in Stockholm. "

Japan imposes additional sanctions on Iran - Bangladesh News 24 hours
The fresh measures that go beyond requirements in a UN Security Council resolution include ... Iran is now Japan's No.4 crude supplier after Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. In 2009, Japan imported about ...

Around the world - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
OSLO, Norway — The lawyer defending a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran has been reunited with his family in Norway. Mohammad Mostafaei says he is “pleased” that his wife and 7-year-old ...

France firm on raising retirement despite protests - Huffingtonpost.com
PARIS — Massive street protests planned for next week won't dent the French government's resolve to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, the labor minister said Thursday. Unions plan demonstrations ...

AFP: Bratislava killer owns his weapon legally, police say - Focus Infomation
Bratislava. The armed man who killed seven people and injured at least 13 in Bratislava owned legally the rifle he used in the assault, the Slovak police announced, cited by AFP . The extremist, who shot himself ...

AFP: Iraq official sells stolen US computers - Focus Infomation
Kabul. An Iraqi official stole US-purchased computers worth almost USD 2 million destined for schoolchildren and sold them off for less than USD 50,000, the US army says, as quoted by AFP . In a highly unusual press ...

AFP: Russia kills Moscow attacks mastermind - Focus Infomation
Moscow. Russian security forces have killed a top militant suspected of organising the deadly attacks on the Moscow metro and who was reportedly married to one of the female suicide bombers, AFP learned. Magomedali ...

US military urges probe into computer gift to Iraq - China Post
BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military called on Friday for an investigation into how US$1.9 million of computer equipment destined as a gift for Iraqi schoolchildren had ended up being auctioned by a senior Iraqi official. The ...

Conservative group's ads violate tax-exempt status, Democrats say - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON • Democrats are charging that political commercials financed by an increasingly prominent conservative foundation with ties to the Tea Party violate the foundation's tax-exempt status by crossing ...

AFP President Tim Phillips: God Bless George Soros, Sort Of! - Slate
I talked briefly with Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips on his way to a breakout session here. He'll be attending the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally tomorrow, and said that AFP's summit had been moved ...