With a country having the world’s highest number of HIV-AIDS infected patients, Swaziland’s government has failed to pay more than $10m (£6.3m) in grants to Aids orphans as it is facing a huge financial crisis. The huge rate of HIV-AIDS has actually left a generation of some 69,000 orphans.
The Arab League has moved closer to imposing sanctions on Syria while military defectors within the country have started to transform the non-violent protest into an armed struggle by attacking intelligence building.
A judge in India has sentenced eight men to death and 20 others to life imprisonment for three so-called honour killings that took place in 1991. The men were found guilty of murdering a Dalit boy and a girl from a higher caste who had eloped together, as well as the boy’s cousin. All three were set alight and hanged, the court in Uttar Pradesh state heard.
In a video released by the new head of the jihadist group Al-QAEDA, Osama Bin Laden has been described as tender and kind. Entitled as Days with the Imam: Part One, the video lasts about 30 minutes and has also been posted on jihadist websites.
On Wednesday angry protesters broke in the Kuwaiti Parliament demanding that the resignation of the Prime Minister in Abu Dhabi.
The ruling by New York judge, Michael Stallman rejected the earlier stay to the decision which ban Occupy Wall Street. Protesters from returning to Zuccotti Park with tents and other camping gear. Stallman ruled that the owners of the park and the authorities were not denying protesters their constitutional right to freedom of speech by banning them from camping there.
Three months ago, a loosely organized group of activists concerned about growing income inequality, corporate greed and the global influence of powerful financial institutions decided to make Lower Manhattan its home, setting in motion a movement known as Occupy Wall Street.
Since then, tens of thousands of people who share Occupy Wall Street’s concerns have taken to the streets throughout the United States and around the globe, shifting the national discourse away from the federal deficit and toward financial woes of a more personal nature, like student debt.
Occupy Wall Street is now an ongoing series of demonstrations which began in September 17th in New York City’s Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district. The Canadian activist group Adbusters initiated the protestswhich has since become a worldwide movement. The protests have focused on social and economic inequality, high unemployment, along with the greed, fraud, corruption and undue influence of corporations, particularly that of the financial services sector over government.
India, on Tuesday, 15th November, 2011 fired its new missile Agni- II Prime. The surface-to-surface intermediate range missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher at from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from Balasore at a place called Odisha. A Representative from the Defense Ministry said that this missile would be called Agni – IV.
Alvaro Colom, the present president of Guatemala has authorized the extradition to the United States of his predecessor Alfonso Portillo. New York prosecutors accused Mr. Portillo of laundering millions of dollars in Guatemalan public funds by using US bank accounts.