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News for Monday, 2 Apr 2012

Senegal’s Macky Sall sworn in as president

Senegal’s new president Macky Sall, 50, was sworn in on Monday after a crushing poll victory over outgoing leader Abdoulaye Wade and a transfer of power hailed as an example...

NATO opposes arming Syrian rebels

NATO’s chief on Monday said the alliance was opposed to providing arms to the Syrian opposition seeking to counter a regime crackdown, warning that it would fuel a proliferation of...

Russia rejects deadline for Annan’s Syrian peace plan

Russia on Monday rejected Arab and Western calls for a deadline to be set for the Syrian regime’s implementation of a peace plan put forward by international mediator Kofi Annan....

Tibet’s exiled premier says Myanmar icon offers hope

Exiled Tibetan leader Lobsang Sangay on Monday said Aung San Suu Kyi’s by-election victory in weekend polls gave him hope that his troubled homeland would see an end to Chinese...

Siberian plane crash kills 31 in oil town

Thirty-one people died Monday when a Russian jet crashed and burst into flames moments after taking off from an oil-rich Siberian region, where another jumbo jet aborted its flight a...

Suu Kyi declares Myanmar on cusp of new era

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday hailed a “new era” for Myanmar and called for political unity after her party swept to victory in elections seen as a...

Karachi violence finally gets president’s attention

Karachi is all set to have a garrison look as President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday took a strong exception to incidents of targeted killings, extortions and street crimes in...

Handed over to terrorists

That city of lights, Karachi

It will go to the eternal discredit of the PPP, MQM and ANP, the three parties the people of Karachi...

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