An Cosantóir

10 | world strategic picture police officers and four soldiers were killed in two separate ambushes in south eastern Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) promptly claimed responsibility for both attacks. tiation Russia has finally entered the World Trade Organisation. Econo- mists predict a 3% rise in Russian GDP. At least eight Turkish After 19 years of nego- EUROPE THE AMERICAS captured in San Cristobal across the border from Colombia with the help of Venezu- elan, British and US intelligence agencies. A massive manhunt is under way after 132 prisoners escaped from a Mexican prison in the city of Piedras Negras, which borders Eagle Pass in Texas to the north. The prison director and two other employ- ees are being held over the incident, after a tunnel measuring 2.9m (9.5 ft) deep and 7m long was discovered. AFRICA erupted after Azer- baijan pardoned an army officer who was serving sentence after hacking an American counterpart to death in a military base in Hungary. He had been serving his sentence in Hungary who released him to Azerbaijani authorities on the premise that he would finish his term. Instead he was given a hero's welcome and a promo- tion. Italy's highest ap- A diplomatic uproar prime minister, Meles Zenawi died after a long illness. Zenawi had been one of Africa's most dominant figures and a prominent ally of the West. In more than two decades Somalia's In Brussels the Ethiopian authoritarian traffickers has been captured in Venezuela. Daniel Barrera, aka 'El Loco Barrera', was One of Colombia's most notorious drug peals court has upheld the guilty verdicts of 23 Americans in absentia, they include one Air Force pilot and 22 CIA agents. The case re- lated to the abduction of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar in Milan in 2003. by the Shabab, an Islamic group linked to al- Qaeda, was shelled by the Kenyan navy. Over 112 people have been killed in Kenya parliament met in an inaugural meeting in Mogadishu. Hassan Sheikh Moham- aud, a civil rights activist, was elected the country's new president promoting a new wave of hope. Kismayo, the largest Somali town still held police killed 34 striking workers at platinum mine. Police say the miners instigated the violence. South Africa's president Jacob Zuma, has launched an inquiry. An Cosantóir October 2012 www.dfmagazine.ie in ethnic clashes over grazing land and water in the south east. It was the worst violence the country had seen since the 2008 dis- puted election. In Marikana in northern South Africa, duced in America that insulted the Prophet Muhammad sparked off protests across the Muslim world. In Libya a group burned down the Ameri- can consulate in Benghazi, killing the ambassador and three of his colleagues. In Egypt protesters stoned the American embassy in Cairo while in Yemen protesters broke into the embassy grounds. In Sana, Yemen's capi- tal the defence minister survived an assassination attempt. shelled parts of the city of Aleppo, killing at least 19 people. In Cairo, at an Arab League summit, Egypt's president, Muhammad Morsi, called on his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al- Assad, to step down. Turkish media has reported that Syrian rebels seized a cross- ing at the Turkish border. Heavy fighting continues throughout the country. An amateur film pro- Lebanon, clashes over the fighting in Syria resulted in at least ten deaths. Syrian government forces MIDDLE EAST In Tripoli, a coastal city in ferences aside China and India agreed to resume joint military exer- cises, includ- ing operations against pirates in the Indian Ocean. Putting dif- ASIA vice president, who had fled from Baghdad last winter, was sentenced to death in absentia for murder. Tareq al-Hashemi, Iraq's two disputed islands from a private owner in the East Chi- na Sea. China dispatched two patrol vessels to the area and warned Japan that it was 'playing with fire'. recruitment was halted in Afghanistan, while hundreds of soldiers were purged from the Afghan army. Some 45 NATO coalition soldiers have been killed this year by fellow Afghan counter- parts. There are fears of Taliban infiltration. Japan bought New police

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