25th June 2020 It will be 25 years in November since Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others were hanged by General
Sani Abacha s military regime and for a few weeks the Niger Delta region was in the international headlines. Then governments activists and lobby groups announced boycotts and protests against General
Sani Abacha s regime for what the then British Prime Minister John Major described as the judicial murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others.READ FOR FREE Vol 61 No 8 |
Belarus And South Ossetia
When in 1990 U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would not expand one inch eastward after German reunification, he was not alone in making that commitment.
Documents declassified a few years ago establish that the same pledge was also made by President George H.W. Bush, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, CIA Director Robert Gates, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, British Prime Minister John Major, and NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner.
On This Day: Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff ends
On Feb. 11, 2016, the last four remaining armed occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon surrendered after a 41-day standoff that left one dead.
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L-R, biologists Kieran Suckling, Cody Martz and Taylor McKinnon hold protest signs at the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve on January 16, 2016, in Burns, Ore. On February 11, 2016, the last four remaining armed occupiers at the refuge surrendered after a 41-day standoff that left one dead. File Photo by Jim Bryant/UPI | License Photo
South African leader Nelson Mandela (C) and wife Winnie (R) wave to the crowd of supporters June 25, 1990. On February 11, 1990, Mandela was released after 27 years in prison. File Photo by Martin Jeong/UPI | License Photo
No Guest for Republic Day
By Venkat Parsa| Published: 26th January 2021 4:44 pm IST New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat witness a fly past by Indian Air Force (IAF) aircrafts, during the 72nd Republic Day celebrations at Rajpath, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav)
The Republic Day Parade this year will have no Guest of Honour. This is happening for the first time in 55 years. The last time there was no Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade was in 1966, as on January 11, 1966, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri had passed away in Tashkent and Indira Gandhi assumed office as Prime Minister on January 24, 1966, and there was hardly any time left for going through the formalities.
After a US and UK investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyans in 1991.
Then British Prime Minister John Major and then US President Bill Clinton arrive for their joint news conference at the White House, April 4, 1995. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
At the time of the papers, the UK was urging for Libya to surrender the suspects for trial in the US or the UK, while Libya was calling for a “neutral” court to try the men.
The papers show that Britain thought Gaddafi would never hand over the bombing suspects.
A Foreign Office official, Richard Stagg, wrote to Major’s private secretary Roderic Lyne in November 1995: “We should like to try the two accused and secure convictions. But the likelihood of Gaddafi handing them over is negligible.”