Condemnation of Syria’s crackdown mounts
International condemnation of Syria mounted
yesterday after its security forces reportedly killed more than 80
people in one of the bloodiest days of a month-long uprising. The EU,
Russia, Germany, Greece and Italy joined the chorus of critics which
includes US President Barack Obama and UN chief Ban Ki-moon, while
France increased pressure.
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More Yemeni troops join protesters
More Yemeni soldiers have reportedly joined the
camp of anti-government protesters, despite the possibility of being
arrested by the regime. On Saturday, the servicemen were cheered by
the protesters as they started attending the demonstrations held in
the capital of Sana’a’s Change Square, Reuters reported.
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Nearly 90 m worldwide live in nuclear danger zone
Some 90 million people worldwide live within 30
kilometres (18.6 miles) of a nuclear reactor, equivalent to the
exclusion zone around Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant, a study
released Friday shows. The United States alone has nearly 16 million
people within this range, followed by more than nine million each in
China, Germany and Pakistan, and five to six million in India,
Taiwan and France.
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