Williams was regarded as unusually liberal for such a senior church prelate, prior to becoming archbishop he was deeply involved in the anti-nuclear movement.
David Cameron and Barack Obama agree deal to release strategic oil supplies from government-controlled reserves in UK and US.
Britain has decided to cooperate with the United States in a bilateral agreement to release strategic oil stocks, two British sources said, in an effort to prevent high fuel prices from derailing economic growth in an election year.
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the possibility of releasing emergency oil reserves during a meeting Wednesday, two sources familiar with the talks said.
Thanks to the power of social media, Joseph Kony’s 30 minute video, dubbed “Kony 2012” produced by Invisible Children has been viewed more 70 million times on YouTube. The controversial video was uploaded on Monday, March 5, has gone viral and will likely cross 100 million views by the end of this week.
Radio host, actor and filmmaker Alex Jones, uploaded a video on YouTube, and published it in his Web site infowars.com. The video, which claims that the documentary- Kony 2012, is a complete fraud and that it is Angelina Jolie who needs to be arrested for war crimes, has already had more than 127,410 viewers in just a day.
A rare 2006 on-camera interview with Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony has resurfaced online, following Invisible Children's viral Web video Kony 2012 and its social media campaign to publicize his alleged war crimes in an effort to see him detained and put on trial.
Since it exploded into the American consciousness earlier this week, Invisible Children's methodology has been much scrutinized, but ICC chief Louis Moreno Ocampo has defended has defended the campaign.
Is the Kony 2012 video just propaganda to send U.S. troops into Uganda so America can seize the African nation's recently discovered oil reserves?
A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and Facebook along with a skeptical backlash against a little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego.
Europe's debt crisis and an oil price rally are the biggest threats to global oil demand this year, OPEC said on Friday, adding it was still pumping above its target despite a slide in Iranian production.
On the occasion of the International Women's Day on March 8, 2012, the U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed and honored 10 women from across the globe with the International Women of Courage Awards.
Is Kony 2012 a scam? The Invisible Children charity has come under heavy fire this week as it has drawn sudden and massive attention to its cause of ending the violent reign of Uganda's rebel warlord Joseph Kony with a viral video seeking donations.
International online geek-hacktivist collective Anonymous threw their support behind controversial activist non-profit organization Invisible Children and their current project Kony 2012, which is quickly spreading online in the form of a 30-minute-long call to arms against Ugandan guerilla leader Joseph Kony. In Anonymous's video declaration of support they name April 20, 2012 as a day of action.
Kony 2012, a 29-minute documentary about Joseph Kony's atrocities in Uganda which went viral on social media, is now gaining criticism.
Invisible Children, a non-profit organization, started a movement to take down Joseph Kony, a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, and have him arrested for crimes against humanity.
The ICC want Hussein on 20 counts of crimes against humanity, including persecution and rape, and 21 counts or war crimes which include murder and attacks against a civilian population.
Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was arrested in Cairo on Wednesday. But which Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was it? The al-Qaeda apostate or the militant leader behind the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings?
The technology sector is slowly growing in Kenya, but this weekend a misplaced anchor near the port of Mombasa has damaged high-speed connectivity in East Africa.
Emerged in Sudan in the 1980s, the nodding disease has largely confounded researchers, despite extensive investigations done so far. Most of the fatalities attributed to the disease are the result of secondary causes. Children with nodding syndrome are prone to accidents such as drowning and burning.
The United States said Thursday it was making progress with its African allies in its push against Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army, but gave no clear end date for the shadowy U.S. military operation unfolding in Central Africa.
The rebel spokesman added that the captured men are safe, but did not disclose their exact location.