Posts Tagged ‘country’

Nepalis lose electricity for 11 hours a day as rivers dry up

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmadu, Nepal (AHN) – The state-run Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to increase power blackouts throughout the country from the current 56 hours a week to 74 hours beginning Wednesday because of a rapid decrease of water levels in rivers. Most of Nepal’s hydroelectric facilities are run-of-the-river operations [...]

Holbrooke Dies, Diplomatic World Mourns

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D,C., United States (AHN) – Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. president’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan died on Monday at George Washington Hospital, where he was admitted on Friday evening. “Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke passed away this evening, surrounded by his wife, Kati, his sons David and Anthony, [...]

Human rights report paints gloomy picture of Nepal in many fronts

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), has issued a report this week on the occasion of Human Rights Day 2010, highlighting the defects that are evident in the area of the judiciary as extraordinary delays often affect the possibility of fair trail. “The [...]

Millions of Israeli Mobile Customers Without Service Following Cellcom Network Crash

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) – Nearly half of Israel’s population was left without cellphone service today when one of the country’s three carrier services collapsed. An estimated three million or 44 percent of the country’s population are unable to use their mobile phones. A statement on Cellcom’s website, signed [...]

UN Special Representative For Somalia, Egypt Discuss Somalia

Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent Cairo, Egypt (AHN) – United Nations’ special representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, and Wafaa Basseem, Egypt’s foreign minister assistant, on Thursday met in Cairo and discussed the latest issues about war-torn Somalia. The talks focused on ways to support the transitional federal government of Somalia until the end [...]

Irish PM Doesn’t See Elections Before March Next Year

AHN News Staff Dublin, Ireland (AHN) – Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on Monday said that he was waiting for the Parliament to pass the significant budget at a time when his country is facing a debt crisis, adding that he doesn’t expect general elections before March of next year. The Irish leader said that [...]

EU, IMF, ECB To Discuss Irish Debt Crisis In Dublin

AHN News Staff Dublin, Ireland (AHN) – Representatives from the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are due to arrive in Dublin on Wednesday to discuss the Irish financial crisis with its government, which has not yet requested any aid. The EU already believes that Ireland needs some kind of [...]

Suu Kyi Still Seeks “Peaceful Resolution” To Reform In Burma

AHN News Staff Yangon, Myanmar (AHN) – Just two days after the military rulers released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest after 15 years, the Nobel peace prize winner said that she is seeking peaceful revolution in Myanmar. In an interview with BBC at the National League for Democracy’s headquarters, she expressed [...]

India’s Mahindra Satyam shows fiscal year quarterly profit

India’s outsourcing firm Mahindra Satyam, recovering from the country’s biggest-ever corporate fraud, on Monday reported its first profits since the scandal erupted. View full post on All Stories

Amnesty Criticizes Hungary Over Roma Violence

AHN News Staff Budapest, Hungary (AHN) – Amnesty International has blasted Hungary for failing to protect the country’s largest Roma population from violence. Identifying shortcomings and gaps in country’s criminal justice system, the human rights group said that police surprisingly failed to record some of the attacks happened between 2008 and 2009 – a charge [...]

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