Independent UN rights expert urges greater effort to eradicate torture in Tajikistan
Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. M?ndez. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferr?The United Nations independent expert on torture today said he was encouraged by recent legal changes in Tajikistan, including the introduction of a new provision defining torture and specifying penalties, but noted that mistreatment of suspects remains common. The UN Special Rapporteur More...
Malawi’s Joyce Banda Probes Death Of President Mutharika
The Commission is also to investigate the alleged attempts to circumvent the Constitution to upstage the then Vice President (herself) from assuming office. President Joyce Banda of Malawi (2nd Africa female Head More...
SOUTH AFRICA: President Zuma Outraged By Controversial Portrait
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa The ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Thursday vowed to go to court to get the painting removed from a Johannesburg art gallery. “The ANC is extremely disturbed More...
Prince Harry says the queen hasn’t Facebooked him — yet
Prince Harry told Katie Couric that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth ll, hasn’t friended him on Facebook. In an interview that airs on May 29, the jocular spare heir joked, when asked by Katie if his More...
spy! Woman Up For Jail For Having S3x In A Taxi!
A British businesswoman faces up to three years in jail for allegedly having sex in a taxi in Dubai while she was drunk. Rebecca Blake, 29, and Conor McRedmond were arrested after an all-day drinking binge. They More...
spy! Man dies in the middle of a lap dance at a strip club!
They say you should go out doing what you love. A 67-year-old Texas man may have taken that inspirational advice to heart Friday night when he died at a strip club while getting erotic lap dances. According to More...
Obama unveils $3b African food security plan to start in Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia
US President Barack Obama US President Barack Obama has announced a $3 billion plan to help boost food production and food security in Africa. The investments to fund the plan are coming from 45 companies. The More...
Population crisis threatens to wipe out Japan’s kids
Researchers at Tohoku University Graduate School in Japan have made the alarming predictionthat in 999 years, Japan will have zero children under the age of 15. The team has developed a child population clock, More...
UN and Libya announce joint initiative to improve food security
FAO Director-General Jose Graziano Da Silva (left) and Sulaiman Abdelhamed Boukharruba, Libya’s Minister for Agriculture, sign agreement in Rome. Photo: FAO/Alessandra BenedettiThe United Nations food agency More...
Presence of UN observers in Syria has �calming effect’ in deployment areas – UN official
Amid ongoing violence in parts of Syria, the presence of UN military observers on the ground has had an overall calming effect in their areas of deployment in the Middle Eastern country, the head of the UN observer More...
