JNN 16 May 2013 Abuja : Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states on Tuesday, ordering in more troops to try to stem an increasingly violent Wahabi insurgency. Continue reading
Daily Archives: May 16, 2013
Japanese politician defends WWII ‘comfort women’ sex slavery
JNN 16 May 2013 Hiroshima : The proximity of the battlefield gave rise to the ‘comfort women’ system on Japanese-occupied territories in the 1930s, according a Japanese politician. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Korean women were forced into sex slavery at the time. Continue reading
Rohingya Muslims face another Disaster, 100 feared Dead as Boat capsize in search of a Safe Heaven
JNN 16 May 2013 Yangoon : A boat carrying about 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized off western Myanmar and many were feared drowned at the beginning of a mass evacuation from low-lying regions ahead of a powerful storm, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. Continue reading
