Unanimous decision declares March 4 presidential poll credible, dismissing fraud charges and prompting limited clashes. [Reuters] Last Modified: 30 Mar 2013 19:48 Kenya’s chief justice has announced that the country’s Supreme Court has upheld the result of the country’s March 4 presidential poll, won by Uhuru Kenyatta. The six-member bench in Nairobi was hearing legal challenges to Kenyatta’s win […]
War in the Middle East? Israel fires on Syria.
24 March 2013 by
(Reuters) – Israel said it fired into Syria on Sunday and destroyed a machinegun position in the Golan Heights from where shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a further spillover of the Syrian civil war along a tense front. It was not immediately clear whether Israel held Syrian troops or rebels responsible for […]
Online forex: One man’s point of view
22 March 2013 by
BY ’KUNLE ADEYERI (ADEFULLHOUSE@YAHOO.COM ) In Forex trading, you will see that technical indicators (charts, moving average lines, etc.) are very important for determining how currency prices move. Of course, fundamental analysis (economic data, current events, etc.) is also useful for predicting how a currency price will change. Underlying the fundamental and technical methods is […]
Oil, Obama and Israel. Strange bedfellows.
17 March 2013 by
Even as it plans to illegally drill for oil in the occupied Golan Heights, “Israel appears to have its eye on the occupied West Bank oil”, according to a classified Foreign Office correspondence [Reuters] The schedule for President Barack Obama’s first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week has just been released and […]
Tunisians mark Shokri Belaid’s assassination. Turns into rally against government.
17 March 2013 by
Belaid, a leftist lawyer, was shot at close range outside his Tunis home on February 6 [Reuters] Thousands of Tunisians have taken to the streets of the capital Tunis to demand the fall of the Islamist government they blame for the assassination of a leading secular politician 40 days earlier. Saturday’s demonstration was the biggest since Shokri […]