NORFOLK, Virginia (AP) – Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against three Somalis charged with murder in the fatal shooting of four Americans aboard a hijacked yacht last year, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday. Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar could also face the death penalty on numerous other charges related to the February,... 

A ferry with some 250 passengers aboard sank in a river in northeast India on Monday following a storm, police said, adding that 50 people had swum to safety. The double-decker ferry sank in the fast-flowing Brahmaputra river in Assam state, police said, adding that the fate of the other 200 passengers was not immediately known. Indian state-owned broadcaster Doordarshan said more than 100 people... 

The attack targeted the God House of Miracle Church, in Ngara neighbourhood There has been a string of small arms attacks and explosions in Kenya since Kenyan troops crossed the Somali border. Kenyan police have blamed previous attacks on Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab Islamists. However, no-one has yet said they carried out the blast. “I can confirm that one person is believed to... 

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 27 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said Friday that heavy rains have hit Somali refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, damaging tents, flooding roads and affecting aid delivery. This comes as the refugee population in southern Ethiopia swells to more than 150,000. “In recent weeks, Dollo Ado in southern Ethiopia has been receiving a weekly average of 450 new Somali refugees.... 

OSLO- Defying terror with song and flowers – tens of thousands of Norwegians filled the rainy streets of Oslo Thursday to perform a children’s tune that right-wing extremist killer Anders Behring Breivik claimed brainwashes kids with left-wing values. The musical gathering stood in stark contrast to the horrors relived in gory details inside the courtroom where survivors from the Oslo... 

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor will hear a historic verdict Thursday on charges of arming Sierra Leone’s rebels in return for “blood diamonds” in the 1990s. Samoan judge Richard Lussik will start reading the decision — the first ever judgment against a former head of state by an international court — at 11:00 am (0900 GMT) at the Special... 

OTTAWA—A suspected terrorist that the federal government wants to deport has won a partial victory before the Federal Court of Appeal. In a complex ruling, the court upheld the constitutionality of Canada’s security certificate process in the case of Mohamad Harkat, but also found that some evidence against him must be excluded from a new court hearing. The former Ottawa pizza delivery man faces... 

Malaria is one of the major causes of death and disease in the world. The life of a child is lost to malaria every 60 seconds and around 216 million people fall seriously ill with it a year, most of them in Africa. Yet cost-effective tools in the fight against the disease, including treated mosquito nets, antimalarial medicines and indoor spraying with insecticide, show that malaria can be easily prevented,... 

mar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, has pledged not to negotiate with South Sudan amid reports of fresh air attacks on his country’s southern neighbour. The renewed tensions come as South Sudan’s 10-day occupation of the oil town of Heglig has left parts of the town blood-soaked and in ruins. “We will not negotiate with the South’s government, because they don’t understand... 

Ten-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud was running for his life down Sycamore Street at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a concerned neighbor stopped to try to help. Seeing the boy’s stepfather chasing after him, the neighbor helped the man, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, catch up with the child. The boy didn’t want to go home with Mohamud. “I told the boy, ‘Daddy promises nothing is going to happen,’”... 

In a stunning collision between art and pastry, a Swedish artist has managed to inflame passions and engender charges of racism, insensitivity and plain old bad taste. Performance artist Makode Aj Linde displayed a cake in the shape of the torso, genitals, and ringed neck of an African woman. The red velvet cake interior of the black fondant-covered confection, while visually stunning in its own right,... 

ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani passenger jet with 127 people on board crashed into wheat fields Friday as it was trying to land in a thunder storm at an airport near the capital Islamabad. Sobbing relatives of those on the flight flocked to the airport, and officials said there appeared to be no survivors. Emergency workers used flashlights to search among the smoldering wreckage of the fuselage, smashed... 

Sudan’s president has said he will “cut” the hand of aggressors and retake the disputed oil-producing Heglig region as his country continues to clash with its southern neighbour South Sudan. Omar al-Bashir told a rally in Sudan’s North Kordofan state on Thursday he would not surrender “an inch” of the country and that he would firmly deal with the enemies. “We... 

Zimbabwe’s Independence Day is a public holiday in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans remember the anniversary of their country’s independence from foreign rule on the 18th of April yearly.   History of Zimbabwe’s Independence Day Zimbabwe was annexed by a number of colonizers such as Portugal, the Ndebele, and later the United Kingdom (UK). The greatest struggle was that of the former partially ending... 

From Ibrahim Manik Male, Apr 18 (PTI) Maldives today announced that the next presidential elections would be held in July next year, just few months ahead of the scheduled date. The announcement came after months of parleys among various political parties here and with international bodies. Many countries including India had supported early elections but did not give any particular time-frame saying...