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April 20, 2010 10:13 AM

Iraqi electoral commissioners to manually recount all votes in Baghdad

The electoral commissioner's council in Iraq has decided to manually recount all votes in Baghdad.<br/> <br/>According to Voice of Iraq news agency, electoral commissioner Hamdiya al-Husseini said the manual recount would begin immediately in Iraq's March 7 election and it will r...

April 20, 2010 10:12 AM

CPM-UML suggests extension of Constituent Assembly term

In Nepal, the ruling CPM-UML has suggested extension of the term of the Constituent Assembly in consultation with other parties after having come to the conclusion that the new constitution cannot be drafted within the May 28 dateline. <br/> <br/>Chairman of CPN-UML Jhalanath Kha...

April 20, 2010 10:11 AM

Ash cloud: European countries to ease flight restriction from today

European transport ministers agreed to ease, from Tuesday, restrictions on flights imposed due to the ash cloud emanating from an Icelandic volcano. <br/> <br/>A diplomatic source told AFP that there is an agreement by the ministers to introduce more flexibility in the restrictio...

April 20, 2010 10:01 AM

UN fears Congo pullout will make efforts to curb raids harder

A senior United Nations official has warned that withdrawal of UN peace keepers from the Democratic Repubic of Congo would make efforts to curb raids there much harder. <br/> <br/>The Congolese President Joseph Kabila has said he wants the UN peace keeping mission in Congo to pul...

April 20, 2010 10:01 AM

Turkey Parliament begins debate on changes in constitution

Parliament in Turkey has begun debating changes to the constitution that would shift powers away from the highly secular judiciary and army. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the changes would improve democracy and help put Turkey on the path to European Union membership. But the nationalist ...

April 20, 2010 10:01 AM

Djibouti approves third term for president Guelleh

Parliament of Djibouti has approved a constitutional amendment which will allow President Ismael Omar Guelleh to run for a third term. <br/> <br/>As well as abandoning two-term limits, MPs have shortened Presidential mandates from six to five years and set 75 as the age limit for...

April 20, 2010 10:01 AM

Latin American leaders attend Venezuela's 200th Independence Day

Leaders from around Latin America have attended events in Venezuela to mark the 200th anniversary of the country's independence. <br/> <br/>President Evo Morales of Bolivia and Danial Ortega of Nicaragua were among the left-wing leaders celebrating the legacy of the Independ...

April 20, 2010 10:00 AM

4.8. magnitude quake hits Australia's West Goldfields city

In Australia, school children and miners were evacuated as an earthquake hit the country's West Goldfields city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Tuesday morning. Geoscience Australia says the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.8 and was located one to two kilometres south of the Kalgoorlie city centre in Bou...

April 20, 2010 9:51 AM

UN calls for encouraging efforts to improve human rights in Gulf nations

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has called for encouraging efforts to improve human rights in the six Gulf nations. Delivering a keynote speech at the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday, she expressed ongoing concerns i...

April 19, 2010 6:02 PM

Iranian Prez approves new sites for uranium enrichment plants

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has approved the sites for new uranium enrichment plants in Iran. Ahmadinejad's senior adviser Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi told the ILNA news agency that the President had approved the locations of the new nuclear sites and the construction at these sites will start wi...

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