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EU wins Greek backing to extend Russia sanctions, delays decision on new steps

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:32 PM PST

A man walks past a shop which was recently damaged by shelling, at a local market in DonetskBy Robin Emmott and Pavel Polityuk BRUSSELS/KIEV (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers extended existing sanctions against Russia on Thursday, holding off on tighter economic measures for now but winning the support of the new left-leaning government of Greece, whose position had been in doubt. They also agreed to list the names of additional people who could be targeted with sanctions when they meet again on Feb. 9. The bloc's foreign policy chief said a decision on such measures would be left to EU leaders meeting next month. On Saturday, suspected rebel forces shelled the major port city of Mariupol, killing 30 people.


Jordan still holding prisoner demanded by Islamic State as deadline passes

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:33 PM PST

Tarawneh, wife of Islamic State captive Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Kasaesbeh, and his sister weep after listening to a statement released by Islamic State in AmmanBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Linda Sieg AMMAN/TOKYO (Reuters) - Jordan said on Thursday it was still holding an Iraqi would-be suicide bomber as a deadline passed for her release set by Islamic State militants who threatened to kill a Jordanian pilot unless she was handed over by sunset. An audio message purportedly from a Japanese journalist also captured by the insurgents said the pilot would be killed unless Jordan freed Sajida al-Rishawi, who is on death row for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack that killed 60 people in Amman. The message postponed a previous deadline set on Tuesday in which the journalist, Kenji Goto, said he would be killed within 24 hours if Rishawi was not freed. The hostage crisis comes as Islamic State, which has already released videos showing the beheadings of five Western hostages, is coming under increased military pressure from U.S.-led air strikes and by Kurdish and Iraqi troops pushing to reverse the Islamist group's territorial gains in Iraq and Syria.


Israel, Hezbollah signal their flare-up is over

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:26 AM PST

Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped coffin of Captain Yochai Kalangel during his funeral at Mount Herzl military cemetery in JerusalemBy Dan Williams and Laila Bassam JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel and Hezbollah signaled on Thursday their rare flare-up in fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border was over, after the Lebanese guerrillas killed two Israeli troops in retaliation for a deadly air strike in Syria last week. Israel said it had received a message from UNIFIL, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, that Hezbollah was not interested in further escalation. In Beirut, a Lebanese source briefed on the situation told Reuters that Israel informed Hezbollah via UNIFIL "that it will make do with what happened yesterday and it does not want the battle to expand".


Hopes of return muted in devastated Syrian Kurdish town

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:18 AM PST

A mannequin is pictured at a damaged building in KobaniBy Osman Orsal KOBANI, Syria (Reuters) - Sheets meant to hide residents from snipers' sights still hang over streets in the Syrian border town of Kobani, and its shattered buildings and cratered roads suggest those who fled are unlikely to return soon. Kurdish forces said this week they had taken full control of Kobani, a mainly Kurdish town near the Turkish border, after months of bombardment by Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that has spread across Syria and Iraq. Their victory, raising Kurdish flags where the black symbols of Islamic State once flew, prompted celebration among the more than 200,000 refugees who have fled to Turkey since the assault on the town began in September. "Coming back to Kobani will be even more difficult than leaving it," said one fighter from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), clutching a machinegun and standing in front of the ruins of a building.


Islamic State's Egypt wing claims attacks that killed 27: official Twitter

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:27 PM PST

By Yusri Mohamed, Ali Abdelaty and Mostafa Hashem ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Islamic State's Egypt wing claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed at least 27 on Thursday in some of the worst anti-state violence in months, after commemorations around the anniversary of the 2011 uprising turned deadly this week. Egypt's government faces an Islamist insurgency based in Sinai and growing discontent with what critics perceive as heavy handed security tactics. A series of tweets from the Sinai Province's Twitter account claimed responsibility for each of the four attacks that took place in North Sinai and Suez provinces within hours of one another on Thursday night.

Dutch news agencies: man wielding gun at national broadcaster

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:46 PM PST

Security forces are seen outside the Media Park in Hilversum, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. A gunman entered the headquarters of Dutch national broadcaster NOS outside Amsterdam on Thursday and demanded airtime on television, before being detained, company officials said. Jan de Jong, director of the NOS, told national radio "Someone got into the building" and added that the man had been taken into custody.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch news agencies reported on Thursday that a man with a gun had entered the offices of the national broadcaster NOS and was demanding to go on air. The RTL press agency reported that a building belonging to NOS was being cleared. An 8 p.m. (2.00 p.m. EST) NOS broadcast displayed a message reading "In connection with circumstances, no broadcast is available at this time". . (Editing by Kevin Liffey)


Balloon crew surpasses distance record in Pacific flight

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:44 PM PST

In Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 photo provided by the Two Eagles Balloon Team, Troy Bradley of New Mexico and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia set off from Saga, Japan, shortly before 6:30 a.m. JST Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in their quest to pilot their helium-filled balloon from Japan in a bid to reach North America and break two major records en route. in their quest to pilot their helium-filled balloon from Japan to North America and break two major records en route. The attempt will put them on course to break a distance record of 5,208 miles (8,381 kilometers). They also want to break the flight-duration record of 137 hours set in 1978 when Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman made the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight. (AP Photo/Troy Bradley, Two Eagles Balloon Team)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two pilots soaring over the Pacific Ocean have made history by surpassing an official world distance record for human flight in a gas balloon.


Robert Allenby gets only a few boos and comments in return

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:43 PM PST

Robert Allenby, of Australia, talks to the media at a practice round for the Phoenix Open golf tournament, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AP) — Robert Allenby feared the worst Thursday at the Phoenix Open in his first round since his mysterious misadventure in Hawaii.


26 killed as attacks rock Egypt's Sinai

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:39 PM PST

A convoy of Egyptian armoured vehicles moves along a road in El-Arish on the Sinai Peninsula on August 13, 2011Militants fired a barrage of rockets and set off a car bomb Thursday killing at least 26 people, mostly soldiers, in Egypt's North Sinai province, where security forces are battling a raging Islamist insurgency. Jihadists have regularly attacked security forces in the Sinai Peninsula since Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was ousted by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in July 2013.


Top Asian News at 12:30 a.m. GMT

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:32 PM PST

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The father of a Jordanian fighter pilot and the wife of a Japanese journalist held by the Islamic State group pleaded for their loved ones' lives after a possible prisoner swap wasn't carried out by a deadline of sunset Thursday. The extremists had demanded that Jordan release a female al-Qaida prisoner from death row, and they purportedly threatened in an audio message to kill the airman if she was not freed by the deadline.

Man with fake gun interrupts Dutch TV, is overpowered

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST

News vans and people gather outside the offices of Dutch national broadcaster NOS in Hilversum, the Netherlands, on January 29, 2015, after a man was overpowered after entering the building and demanding airtimeA man armed with a fake gun disrupted Dutch television on Thursday evening when he forced his way into the building of public broadcaster NOS and demanded airtime before being overpowered by police. The NOS building in the central city of Hilversum was evacuated. The incident interrupted NOS's 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) newscast, with a message on screen telling viewers no broadcast was "available at this time". A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said at a press conference that the gunman, aged 19, came from the town Pijnacker near The Hague and was in police custody.


Michael Clarke to make injury return in club match

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia captain Michael Clarke will take a step toward proving his fitness for the Cricket World Cup when he plays for Sydney club side Western Suburbs in a two-day match starting Saturday.

Woods stumbles with chipping in return to golf

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST

Tiger Woods hits out of the rough on the 11th hole during the first round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The focus on Tiger Woods at the Phoenix open shifted Thursday from a chipped tooth to his chipping.


Jang goes from qualifier to leader at US LPGA season opener

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST

Ha Na Jang, of South Korea, talks with her caddie on the 10th hole during the second round of the Coates Golf Championship LPGA tournament at the Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club in Ocala, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/The Ocala Star-Banner, Bruce Ackerman) MAGS OUTOCALA, Florida (AP) — Ha Na Jang went from qualifier to leader in just a few days at the U.S. LPGA Tour season opener on Thursday.


Man faces execution in Texas for 1996 strangling death

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:17 PM PST

This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Ladd. Ladd, scheduled to die Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, came within nine hours of execution in 2003 for the slaying of a 38-year-old Vickie Ann Garner, when a federal appeals court halted his punishment. Lawyers then said they found juvenile records suggesting he was mentally impaired, a finding that could make him ineligible for the death penalty. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected last-day appeals from a man scheduled to die for the death of a woman who was strangled and beaten with a hammer before her body was set on fire nearly two decades ago.


Gas blast wrecks Mexico children's hospital, at least 2 dead

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:15 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Injured and bleeding, mothers carrying infants fled from a maternity hospital shattered by a powerful gas explosion Thursday, and rescuers swung sledgehammers to break through fallen concrete hunting for others who might be trapped.

Jang goes from qualifier to leader at LPGA season opener

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:13 PM PST

Ha Na Jang, of South Korea, pumps her fist after her putt on the first hole during the second round of the Coates Golf Championship LPGA tournament at the Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club in Ocala, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/The Ocala Star-Banner, Bruce Ackerman) MAGS OUTOCALA, Fla. (AP) — Ha Na Jang went from qualifier to leader in just a few days at the LPGA season opener.


Lawyers snipe as jury selection resumes in Tsarnaev trial

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:12 PM PST

FILE - This file photo provided Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The process of finding "death qualified" jurors has slowed down jury selection in federal case against Tsarnaev, who is charged with setting off two bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 during the 2013 marathon. (AP Photo/FBI, File)BOSTON (AP) — As jury selection resumed Thursday in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a prosecutor accused one of Tsarnaev's lawyers of trying to "encourage" a hung jury.


African Union calls for 7,500-strong force to fight Boko Haram

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:11 PM PST

African Union Commission Chairperson Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma speaks in Lagos, Nigeria, on December 3, 2014The African Union called Friday for a regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to defeat the "horrendous" rise of Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgents, AU Commission Chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said. "Boko Haram's horrendous abuses, unspeakable cruelty, total disregard for human lives, and wanton destruction of property are unmatched," Dlamini-Zuma said in a statement after the bloc's Peace and Security Council met late Thursday, ahead of a full AU summit meeting on Friday. The Boko Haram uprising has become a regional crisis, with the four directly affected countries -- Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria -- agreeing along with Benin to boost cooperation to contain the threat and to form a Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF).


Venezuelan general appears in NY after 11 months on the run

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:08 PM PST

Venezuela's former Army Gen. Antonio Rivero speaks to the media outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. Rivero surfaced in New York after being on the run for almost a year, after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered him arrested. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)NEW YORK (AP) — A dissident Venezuelan general who has been in hiding for nearly a year emerged Thursday for a public appearance in New York.


Oral arguments scheduled in American Samoa citizenship case

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., will be hearing oral arguments in a case involving citizenship rights of American Samoa residents.

UN chief launches inquiry of Mali protest deaths

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, pictured on January 12, 2015 in New Delhi, India, has decided to open an official inquiry on the shooting death of three protesters during demonstrations in northern MaliUnited Nations (United States) (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open an inquiry into the fatal shootings allegedly by UN troops of three protesters during demonstrations in northern Mali, his spokesman said Thursday.


Mexico hospital blast kills two, injures dozens

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:59 PM PST

Relatives of victims cry at the site of an explosion at a maternity hospital in Mexico CityA gas truck explosion demolished a maternity hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens while mothers grabbed their babies as the ceiling collapsed. "I remember the cries of the babies under the rubble and the screams of my colleagues," said Ivonne Ortega, a nurse who was injured as she helped evacuate the newborns. Mexico City Health Secretary Armando Ahued said a woman and a baby were killed. Around three-quarters of the building collapsed after the blast, which took place around 7:00 am after workers were unable to control a pipe leak, Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said.


Exploding air bag may have killed Texas man

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:57 PM PST

HOUSTON (AP) — Federal safety regulators are looking into the death of a Texas man who may be the latest victim of exploding automobile air bags made by Takata Corp. of Japan.

Tripoli rivals to join peace talks 'if held in Libya'

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:48 PM PST

Saleh al-Makzom, Libyan deputy president of the General National Congress, speaks during a press conference on January 29, 2015 in TripoliThe rivals of Libya's elected parliament agreed Thursday to join UN-mediated peace talks with the internationally recognised government if they are held on home soil. The announcement by Salah al-Makhzoum, deputy speaker of the General National Congress (GNC), came as the UN said there was agreement in principle to hold future sessions in Libya, "provided that logistical and security conditions are available". The negotiations have brought together warring factions, civil society groups and officials in a bid to form a unity government to end Libya's conflict. Notably absent has been the Tripoli-based GNC, a transitional body that refused to recognise parliament, which was elected in June but fled to the far eastern city of Tobruk for security reasons.


Youth who stormed Dutch broadcaster claimed to be hacker

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:42 PM PST

Security forces are seen outside the Media Park in Hilversum, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. A gunman entered the headquarters of Dutch national broadcaster NOS outside Amsterdam on Thursday and demanded airtime on television, before being detained, company officials said. Jan de Jong, director of the NOS, told national radio "Someone got into the building" and added that the man had been taken into custody.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)HILVERSUM, Netherlands (AP) — A 19-year-old brandishing a fake weapon threatened a security guard to gain access to the headquarters of Dutch national broadcaster NOS and demand airtime Tuesday night before police stormed a TV studio to arrest him.


DRC army in new offensive against Rwanda rebels

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:39 PM PST

A box of ammunition, reportedly abandoned by Rwandan ethnic Hutu rebels of the FDLR, sits on the ground near Tongo, Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 11, 2014The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced Thursday a fresh offensive against Rwandan ethnic Hutu rebels after weeks of heavy international pressure to act. "Today we're launching new operations against the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda)," General Didier Etumba said in Beni, in the north of North Kivu province. "This is an operation by the FARDC (DRC Armed Forces)," Etumba said, rather than a joint offensive with a special UN brigade deployed in the country. The Kinshasa government and the international community gave the FDLR rebels an ultimatum to lay down their arms and surrender by January 2 or face attacks and forcible disarmament.


Blatter joins FIFA election race without naming nominees

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:39 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2001 file photo, Portuguese player Luis Figo, left, of Spanish team Real Madrid receives his trophy as FIFA "World Player of The Year 2001" from Swiss FIFA president Joseph Blatter, center, and Georges Weah of Liberia, right, during the awards ceremony of the FIFA trophies in Zurich, Switzerland. Luis Figo said in an interview on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 that he wants to become FIFA president and has the nominations needed to be an official candidate against Sepp Blatter. (AP Photo/Keystone, Michele Limina, File)GENEVA (AP) — Beating the entry deadline by hours on Thursday, Sepp Blatter formally joined a FIFA presidential contest he is widely expected to win.


Roma midfielder Strootman to have more knee surgery

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:31 PM PST

Fiorentina forward Mario Gomez, left, and Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman jump for the ball during a serie A soccer match between Fiorentina and Roma in Florence, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Fabio Muzzi )MILAN (AP) — Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman reassured fans his latest injury is nothing serious after it was revealed he will undergo more surgery on his left knee, which was operated on last year.


African Union 'mixed signals' as Mugabe tipped for top job

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:29 PM PST

Zimbabwe President and Zanu-PF ruling party leader Robert Mugabe delivers his key note address during the official opening of the 6th Peoples Congress of Zanu-PF in Harare on December 4, 2014African leaders are expected Friday to elect Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to the 54-member African Union's rotating chair, a choice critics say risks tarnishing the organisation's reputation. Mugabe, who aged 90 is Africa's oldest leader, is widely expected to be anointed as successor to Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz at the start of the two-day AU summit meeting in the Ethiopian capital.


UD Senator: Taliban detainees have communicated with Haqqani

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:28 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2015 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Graham says he's set up a committee and a website to raise money for a possible campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. The 60-year-old, two-term senator told reporters Thursday that his exploratory committee is about finding solutions to such public policy issues as immigration, national security and health care. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Republican senator and frequent Mideast traveler said Thursday that the Taliban detainees released from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have been in touch with members of the al-Qaida linked Haqqani network, yet all five still are being monitored in Qatar.


Simultaneous attacks in Egypt's Sinai kill 26

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:25 PM PST

A convoy of Egyptian armoured vehicles moves along a road in El-Arish on the Sinai Peninsula on August 13, 2011EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Militants struck more than a dozen army and police targets in the restive Sinai Peninsula with simultaneous attacks involving a car bomb and mortar rounds on Thursday, killing at least 26 security officers.


New Saudi king announces major government shake-up: royal decrees

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:25 PM PST

Saudi King Salman at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on January 27, 2015Saudi Arabia's new King Salman on Thursday further cemented his hold on power, with a sweeping shakeup that saw two sons of the late King Abdullah fired, and the heads of intelligence and other key agencies replaced alongside a cabinet reshuffle. "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud issued a royal order today, relieving Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Chief of General Intelligence, of his post," the official Saudi Press Agency said. A separate decree said Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a nephew of Abdullah, was removed from his posts as Secretary General of the National Security Council and adviser to the king. Two sons of the late monarch were also fired: Prince Mishaal, governor of the Mecca region, and Prince Turki, who governed the capital Riyadh, according to the decrees broadcast on Saudi television.


India woman sues Uber after reporting driver raped her

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:21 PM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman who says an Uber driver raped her in New Dehli, India, on Thursday accused the company in a lawsuit filed in U.S. court of failing to properly investigate the alleged assailant's background.

Opposition leader urges US help for Guinea polls

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:19 PM PST

Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo, President of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea, speaks during an interview on January 29, 2015 in Washington, DCA Guinean opposition leader Thursday urged the international community to help monitcor presidential elections due in the west African nation this year, voicing fears of possible fraud and violence. Former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo accused Guinea's President Alpha Conde of using the country's ongoing fight against Ebola as a "pretext" for not setting a date for the presidential polls. Diallo, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces in Guinea who was defeated by Conde in the last polls in 2010, said he would stand again in elections which are due before December when Conde's five-year mandate comes to an end. "I am lobbying the international community to become engaged in the elections, because the president has said he does not want any 'foreign interference' as he calls it," he said.


Protest hits California city for linking with Vietnam city

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:19 PM PST

RIVERSIDE, California (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in Riverside on Thursday to protest its new sister-city relationship with a city in Vietnam, arguing that nation's communist government abuses human rights.

AP Explains: Super Bowl stadium full of unique features

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:18 PM PST

FILE- In this Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, file photo, with the grass field tray outside, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Black Hawk helicopter circles above University of Phoenix Stadium, site of the NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game, during a security demonstration for the media in Glendale, Ariz. With a retractable roof and field that can been wheeled out into the sunlight, the stadium is unlike any other stadium in the world. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — With its retractable roof and moveable field, University of Phoenix Stadium is unlike any stadium anywhere.


Saudi blogger's health worsening, wife says

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:17 PM PST

Ensaf Haidar, the wife of the Saudi Blogger Raef Badawi, holds a press conference in Ottawa, Ontario, on January 29, 2015 asking Canadian Prime minister Stephen Harper to plead on Saudi Arabia to free her husbandThe health of a Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam and whose case attracted international concern is worsening, his wife said Thursday. Raef Badawi, who could receive a round of 50 lashes on Friday, is suffering from hypertension and more flogging could weaken him further, his wife told reporters and lawmakers in Ottawa. "Raef's health condition is bad and it's getting worse. I am very concerned about him," said wife Ensaf Haidar, who sought asylum in Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec with her three children after Badawi was jailed in June 2012.


Nigerian govt blocking journalist visas: main opposition

Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:12 PM PST

A supporter wearing a mask representing Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan attends a campaign meeting of the ruling People's Democratic Party candidate in Port Harcourt on January 28, 2015Nigeria's main opposition party on Thursday accused the government of blocking foreign journalists from covering next month's elections and urged international monitors to press for access. The All Progressives Congress (APC) claimed there had been a "systematic denial of visas" by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. "A regime that has nothing to hide or fear will not hesitate to allow international coverage of what is undoubtedly one of the most important elections in the world this year," said APC spokesman Lai Mohammed. "Information reaching us indicates that most of the foreign journalists who applied for visas to travel to Nigeria from different parts of the world for the elections have been kept in abeyance under the guise of security clearance.


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