YEMEN PROTESTERS REJECT SALEH’S CALL FOR POLLS
SANAA: Yemen activists called for fresh protests on Monday, escalating demands for the immediate departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh after the ailing leader said that polls would determine his future. AFP
KENYA’S NOBEL LAUREATE DIES IN HOSPITAL
NAIROBI: Kenya’s Nobel Peace Prize winner and ecologist Prof. Wangari Maathai died in Nairobi on Sunday night while undergoing treatment at a hospital after a prolonged battle with cancer, her family said on Monday. XINHUA
BRITAIN RAPS SIX MEN FOR TERRORISM
LONDON: Six men from Britain’s second-largest city of Birmingham were charged with terrorism on Sunday night following a counter-terrorism operation. XINHUA
OBAMA: REPUBLICANS WOULD ‘CRIPPLE’ AMERICA
SEATTLE, Washington: US President Barack Obama warned on Sunday (Monday in Manila) that Republicans would “cripple” America, ripping into his political foes at the start of a big money campaign swing through the American west. AFP
