Bahrain appointed a Jewish woman as ambassador to the United States in July 2008. She is believed to be the Arab world's first Jewish envoy. The selection of Houda Nonoo was made by decree.
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Europe 1 reported that the conclusion was based on an autopsy performed on Lemacon as well as testimony by his wife and the marine who fired the fatal shot. According to the report, when the assault on the Tanit began, Lemacon stood to protect his wife and three-year-old son, and was struck by what was described as a 'reflex shot' fired by the marine.
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Turkey’s navy yesterday took on Saturday May 2, 2009 command of an international force to combat piracy off the Somalian coast in a move analysts say reflects Ankara’s increased role as a major player in the region, the Egyptian newspaper The National reports.
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The government of Canada is extending the counter-piracy mission of HMCS Winnipeg to June. That will allow the Canadian warship to continue operations with NATO's Operation Allied Protector off the coast of Somalia, where dozens of vessels have been seized by pirates in recent months.
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Spain’s top investigative judge, Baltasar Garzón, has launched a new criminal investigation into allegations of torture at Guantánamo Bay and other US prison camps that will target the “possible material authors, enablers and accomplices” of the illegal abuse of detainees, Paul Mitchell and Chris Marsden report.
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A U.S. terrorism report which was published in the newspaper the Kenya Daily Nation on Saturday, said al Qaida allies are active in Kenya. The annual report published by the U.S. State Department warned al Qaida agents responsible for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam remain at large and currently pose "the most serious threat to Kenya.
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A Somali MP has denied that money accrued from piracy off the East African coast is being used to buy property in Kenya. Mr Ashad Awad Ashareh said, instead, the money that has seen value of property in places like Nairobi’s Eastleigh and Mombasa rise was from Somalis in the diaspora.
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Countering the escalating threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden will be the focus of an emergency international summit scheduled to take place in Cairo.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that Spain and France will propose an international conference on lawless Somalia, where pirates continue to hold ships to ransom. "We have agreed to propose the holding of an international conference on Somalia," he told a joint news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Seven actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and one improved in April 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch, released today.
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