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Breadth of the territorial sea
Every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up
to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles( 22.224KM), measured from baselines...
Nigeria gunmen storm oil ship - two dead, four kidnapped
Gunmen in Nigeria have stormed an oil industry vessel off the coast, killing two Nigerian navy sailors and kidnapping four foreigners...
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner
Argentinean lawmakers have passed legislation that bans British-flagged vessels from mooring, loading, or carrying out logistical operations...
Uganda outspends Kenya on military for the first time
Ugandas expenditure on arms surpassed Kenyas for the first time in 2011, a new global arms expert report shows. Uganda spent US$1.02...
PARIS Aug 3 (Reuters) - French investigators have seized a Paris townhouse belonging to the son of Equatorial Guinea's president as part of a money-laundering probe, a judicial source said on...
Thu Aug 2, 2012 2:19pm GMT
* NITC argues not a government entity
* Sanctions pressure on Iran gathers pace
By Jonathan Saul
LONDON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - New names for Iran's oil tankers are part...
Many crises are so visually dramatic that people respond generously very quickly. Last year a massive earthquake hit northeastern Japan, indirectly threatening a nuclear catastrophe at...
Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Wednesday that the West and the United States are in cahoots with al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and...
Long Island Police are on the lookout for two men who robbed a pet store, making off with a Pomeranian which one man stuffed down his pants while an employee wasn't looking.Security camera footage...
Joseph Kabila: 'open secret Rwanda is backing rebel fighters in Congo' Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has addressed the Rwanda row for the first time...
Source BBC-Swahili.
Ghana's President John Atta Mills has died after falling ill, his office has said in a statement.
A statement said the 68-year-old died a few hours after being taken ill, but...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) As the pickup truck she was riding in careened down the road at 80 mph, 12-year-old Miranda Bowman knew one thing: She had to stop it.
Miranda's grandfather, Paul Parker, was...
East African banks lost Sh4.06 billion ($48.3 million ) to fraud in the eighteen months ended June 2012 as they failed to keep pace with technologically savvy criminals.
Data collected by the...
His Excellency Meles Zenawi, Dead at the Age of 57
His Excellency Zenawi will be forever remembered as the greatest African leader since Menelik.
by Johnny Walkerz* dated: Monday, July 30th...
July 30, 2012 | BBC
Trains were stranded after the outage
A massive power cut has caused disruption across northern India, including in the capital, Delhi.
It hit a vast swathe of the...
July 29, 2012 | AFP
A Mississippi couple got the shock of their lives when the pastor at the church they attended told them the wedding they planned could not be held there because they are...
Mitt Romney is calling Jerusalem "the capital of Israel" and is pledging to stand with the U.S. ally.
The U.S. presidential candidate says in a speech in Jerusalem that America must stand with...
DUBAI // Police are warning motorists of the "Ramadan rush hour" after recording 3,605 traffic accidents in the emirate since the start of the Holy Month.
About 200 of these occurred shortly...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling a visit to Israel by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romneyas "kissing the foot" of the Jewish state to boost his bid for the...
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"A macabre scene with racist undertones took place on Saturday when Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth attended a tax funded party for the Stockholm...