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الثلاثاء، 1 مايو 2012

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Former Libyan prime minister Ghanem drowned, Vienna police say
U.S. finds remains of soldier missing from Vietnam War plane crash
UN expects unemployment crisis to continue and worsen
Pakistan summons U.S. diplomat following latest drone strike
Suicide bomber hits police convoy in eastern Nigeria, killing 10

Former Libyan prime minister Ghanem drowned, Vienna police say

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:24 PM PDT

VIENNA, AUSTRIA (BNO NEWS) -- Former Libyan prime minister Shokri Ghanem, whose lifeless body was found in a river in the Austrian capital of Vienna over the weekend, died by drowning and there are no indications of foul play, police said on Monday.

Ghanem's body was found by a passerby at around 8:40 a.m. local time on Sunday near a popular beach known as Copa Cagrana in New Danube, a side channel of the Danube river. He was found fully-clothed but was not carrying personal identification documents, except a paper belonging to a company he worked for.

Wien police spokesman Roman Hahslinger said, based on preliminary results from an autopsy carried out on early Monday morning, Ghanem died as a result of drowning. There are no indications of suicide or a third party being involved, he said, although several Libyan officials have questioned whether Ghanem may have been pushed into the water by agents who supported the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

Educated in the United States, Ghanem was one of the few senior Libyan officials who attempted to use their influence to allow reform in the African country and open it to Western investment. But his plans were often blocked by other Libyan officials, including long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi, who were opposed to reform.

Ghanem, who was 69, took over as prime minister in June 2003 but was forced out in March 2006 after which he assumed the role of Oil Minister. But when pro-democracy protests erupted across Libya in February 2011, which were met with a violent crackdown by security forces, Ghanem expressed his unhappiness and fled to Rome where he announced his defection.

U.S. finds remains of soldier missing from Vietnam War plane crash

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 07:10 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The remains of a U.S. service member who went missing in a plane crash on the south-central coast of Vietnam during the Vietnam War in 1969 have been identified, the U.S. Department of Defense announced on Monday. His remains have been returned to his family.

U.S. Army Captain Charles R. Barnes and four other service members departed an airfield in Qui Nhon on March 16, 1969, en-route for Da Nang and Phu Bai. When their aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air U-21A Ute, approached Da Nang, they encountered low clouds and poor visibility before contact was lost.

After the aircraft failed to land as scheduled, a search-and-rescue operation was launched but eventually called off due to hazardous weather conditions. The cause of the crash was never determined. Barnes, who was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the four other men were listed as missing in action.

More than two decades later, in 1993, a joint U.S.-Vietnamese team conducted investigations in the provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quảng Nam-Đà Nẵng. "They interviewed a local Vietnamese citizen who supplied remains and an identification tag bearing Barnes' name, which he claimed to have recovered from an aircraft crash site," the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement on Monday.

In 1999, a second joint U.S.-Vietnamese team interviewed additional local citizens about the crash and they were led to the crash site. A year later, a joint U.S.-Vietnamese team excavated the site and recovered human remains and material evidence.

Using circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools such as mitochondrial DNA -- which matched that of Barnes' sister -- scientists from America's Joint Prisoners of War, Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory were able to identify the remains of Barnes.

Barnes will be buried on Wednesday at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia with full military honors.

Since late 1973, the remains of more than 930 Americans killed in the Vietnam War have been accounted-for and returned to their families. With the accounting of Bernes, 1,671 Americans remain missing from the conflict, which ended in April 1975 and left more than 315,000 people killed.

UN expects unemployment crisis to continue and worsen

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:47 PM PDT

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- A report released by the United Nations (UN) on Monday warns that the difficult global unemployment crisis is not expected to recover anytime soon.

The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) published the report, titled "World of Work Report 2012: Better Jobs for a Better Economy", detailing that around 50 million jobs are still missing compared to the situation that existed before the global economic crisis.

The report noted that employment rates have only increased in six of the 36 advanced economies since 2007 - Austria, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Malta and Poland - and that youth unemployment rates have increased in about 80 percent of advanced countries and two-thirds of developing countries.

The report warns the global jobs crisis is likely to get worse as many governments, especially those in advanced economies, have shifted their priority to a combination of fiscal austerity and tough labor market reforms. This could lead to yet another recession in Europe.

Director of the ILO Institute for International Labor Studies and lead author of the report, Raymond Torres, stated that "the narrow focus of many Eurozone countries on fiscal austerity is deepening the jobs crisis and could even lead to another recession in Europe."

"Countries that have chosen job-centered macroeconomic policies have achieved better economic and social outcomes," Torres added. "Many of them have also become more competitive and have weathered the crisis better than those that followed the austerity path. We can look carefully at the experience of those countries and draw lessons."

According to the report, many jobseekers in advanced economies are demoralized and are losing skills, something which is affecting their chances of finding a new job. In addition, small companies have limited access to credit, which in turn is depressing investment and preventing employment creation.

The ILO said that without a 'dramatic' shift in policy direction in those countries with advanced economies, especially in Europe, job recovery is not expected before the end of 2016. Other factors signaled in the report include the fact that, in most advanced economies, many of the new jobs are precarious and there exists the possibility of increased social unrest in many parts of the world.

However, some two million jobs could be created over the next year in advanced economies, the report argued, if a job-friendly policy-mix of taxation and increased expenditure in public investment and social benefits is put in place.

In the report's Social Unrest Index, 57 out of 106 countries with available information showed a risk of increased social unrest in 2011 compared to 2010. The regions with the largest increases are sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa.

Pakistan summons U.S. diplomat following latest drone strike

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:37 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- The Pakistani government on Monday summoned an American diplomat to protest a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan during the weekend, further deteriorating an already fragile relationship between the two countries.

A statement issued by Pakistan's foreign ministry said Director General America, Suhail Khan, summoned U.S. Political Councilor Jonathan Pratt to protest the unilateral strikes. "Such attacks are in total contravention of international law and established norms of interstate relations," the ministry said, adding that the strikes are a violation of Pakistan's territorial integrity and sovereignty.

On Sunday, an unmanned U.S. aircraft targeted an abandoned high school for girls in Miranshah, the main town in Pakistan's North Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan. Intelligence officials said the strike killed four suspected militants and injured three others, although it was not possible to independently verify the figures.

Pakistan officials have repeatedly described the U.S. drone attacks as illegal. Last week, during a joint news conference with U.S. Special Envoy Marc Grossman, Pakistani Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani underlined the country's strong opposition to the CIA-led drone campaign in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Pakistani President Asif Zardari has also stated the need to establish alternative security operations to the drone strikes, but U.S. officials have indicated that they will continue to carry out U.S. drone strikes to take out militants.

In January, U.S. President Barack Obama, for the first time during his presidency, publicly acknowledged that U.S. drones regularly strike suspected militants along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He confirmed that many of these strikes are carried out in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects in tough terrain.

The U.S. considers the Pakistan-Afghan border to be the most dangerous place on Earth. The area is known to be a stronghold of the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani Network, which is one of the top terrorist organizations and threats to U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.

But controversy has surrounded the drone strikes as local residents and officials have blamed them for killing innocent civilians and motivating young men to join the Taliban. Details about the alleged militants are usually not provided, and the U.S. government does not comment on the strikes.

Suicide bomber hits police convoy in eastern Nigeria, killing 10

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:28 PM PDT

JALINGO, NIGERIA (BNO NEWS) -- At least ten people were killed on early Monday morning when a suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying a senior police officer in eastern Nigeria, officials said. Nearly two dozen others were injured, some seriously.

The attack took place at around 8:30 a.m. local time in Jalingo, the state capital of Taraba, when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle crashed into the police convoy. Police Commissioner Mamman Sule was in the attacked convoy, although it was not immediately clear if he was the target of the attack.

"There are ten confirmed fatalities," a police officer said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. The officer said at least one of the fatalities was a police officer, and 21 other people were reported to be injured. Some were seriously injured.

Sule survived the attack, although it was unclear if he was among those injured.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Boko Haram have been blamed for most of the region's terrorist attacks and seeks the imposition of an extremist stance of the Shariah law, which is a Muslim code of conduct. The group's name, in the local language of Hausa, roughly translates as 'Western religion is sacrilegious' or 'non-Islamic religion is a sin.'

Monday's attack came just one day after at least 20 people were killed when a group of gunmen riding a vehicle and two motorcycles targeted two church services at Bayero University in Nigeria's northern city of Kano. The attackers hurled explosives and opened fire, killing scores of people and injuring others.

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