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UNITED NATIONS: A daughter and son of late Libyan dictator Moamer Qadhafi have moved from Algeria to Oman in breach of UN sanctions, a UN ambassador said Tuesday.The United Nations and international police organization Interpol may soon issue a global alert over members of the family and other associates who are on the run and face UN sanctions.Aisha and Mohammed face a travel ban and assets freeze imposed in the months before their father was overthrown and killed in October 2011.Eugene-Richard Gasana, Rwanda's UN ambassador and chairman of the Security Council committee that monitors sanctions on Libya, said the committee had been told of the pair's move from Algeria, where they fled in 2011, to Oman.Under UN sanctions rules, the committee should have approved any travel, but Gasana said this was not done and that UN sanctions experts are investigating.Gasana said the sanctions committee and Interpol are finalizing an ...
WASHINGTON: Google said Tuesday it asked a special US court handling national security investigations for permission to publish the number of government requests for data to the Internet giant.The court filing in Washington came amid a firestorm of protests over revelations that the National Security Agency had accessed vast amounts of data in a surveillance program under the supervision of the special court, which operates in secret.Google said it already publishes in its "transparency report" ...
BUENOS AIRES: President Cristina Kirchner suffered a defeat on Tuesday after Argentina's Supreme Court tossed out a bid to select officials to the country's top judicial panel by popular vote."It is not valid to force judges, attorneys and academics to be selected by popular vote," the court said in part of its 67-page finding.Kirchner had hoped to change rules for how judges are put on the Judicial Council, which is in charge of naming and ...
WASHINGTON: NASA announced a Grand Challenge on Tuesday to enlist government agencies, industry, academics and citizen astronomers in the hunt for asteroids that could cause massive destruction.The US space agency said the challenge would complement another recently announced project to use a robot to redirect an asteroid into the Moon's orbit so astronauts could visit the object and study it."NASA already is working to find asteroids that might be a threat to our planet, and ...
FORT MEADE: Lawyers for five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks sought access Tuesday to confidential communications between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the men after they were held at CIA black sites.ICRC attorney Matthew MacLean urged a military judge to deny access to the records prepared for the US government, saying their release would hamper the organization's "neutral, impartial and independent" role in conflicts and regions around the world."The ICRC ...
WASHINGTON: US consumer prices crept higher in May, led by a jump in housing costs, after falling for two months in a row, official data released Tuesday showed.The Labor Department reported its consumer price index rose 0.1 percent in May from April, and was up 1.4 percent over the past 12 months.A 0.3 percent increase in the cost of housing, which includes rent, accounted for more than half of the CPI increase in May, the ...
KUWAIT CITY: Foreign direct investment into Arab states rose by 9.8 percent last year despite unrest in some of them but remained well below its level in 2010, when the Arab Spring erupted, a report said on Tuesday.Arab states attracted FDI worth $47.1 billion (35.4 billion euros) in 2012 compared with $42.9 billion the previous year, the Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corp said in its annual report.But that was 28.5 percent lower than ...More Articles...
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