News headlines in February 2010, page 8

Hamas has closed ranks and is licking its wounds following the Jan. 20 assassination in Dubai of one of its top operatives, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh. It is alleged that one of its own was responsible for providing the hit team with vital logistical information.

Dao, a migrant worker from Burma, is struggling to make a decision that could affect not only her but her family as well. 'There are many things to worry about,' sighed the Shan state native who works in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.

Dao, a migrant worker from Burma, is struggling to make a decision that could affect not only her but her family as well. 'There are many things to worry about,' sighed the Shan state native who works in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.

Street protests that erupted in Colombo and other cities following the Feb. 8 arrest of defeated Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka have yet to gain wider support from non-political groups.

Activists and opposition groups are stepping up pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it will seal the fate of the people on the Gaza Strip.

They emerge from the jungles like Robin Hood’s band of merry men. They ambush police posts, kill government supporters, kidnap officials, trigger landmines and disappear in the same forest with a loot of weapons as Indian police suffer like sitting ducks.

To halt the planet's declining biodiversity and loss of critical natural resources, both the economy we live in and communication about science needs to be changed profoundly, says a prominent Dutch ecologist.

Campaigning by environmental groups and the general public has weakened the determination of the Bulgarian government to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in this country.

A week after President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the government and the electoral commission, thousands marched in the city of Bouaké, damaging cars and shops. There have been almost daily demonstrations in cities across the country as Côte d'Ivoire's political crisis deepens.

Independent power producers argue that small hydroelectric plants have a key role to play in avoiding an energy shortfall in the Southern African region.