08/10/2012 10:49
International press at a glance
BBC News
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has won a fourth term in office, after opposition leader Henrique Capriles admitted defeat, the BBC reports.
Reuters
As the Reuters reports, Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey's border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara's warning that it will respond with force to any violence spilling over into its territory.
The Guardian
Scores of civilians in Rwanda have allegedly been tortured into making false confessions after being detained illegally without charge or trial, an investigation by Amnesty International has found, the Guardian says.
Former detainees claimed they were subjected to electric shocks, severe beatings and sensory deprivation while being held at a military camp and a secret network of safe houses in the capital, Kigali, according to Amnesty.
Daily Mail
The British news agency Daily Mail reports that Antisa Khvichava lived through the Russian Revolution and well over a century of history, but a Georgian woman who claimed to be the world’s oldest living person has died at the age of 132.
Antisa Khvichava, who lived in the remote mountain village of Sachino in Georgia, held Soviet-era documents which said she was born on 8 July 1880, but her age was contested and never proven.
The Telegraph
Another British news agency says that Barack and Michelle Obama belatedly celebrate 20th wedding anniversary.
Barack and Michelle Obama were finally able to mark their 20th wedding anniversary at the weekend, after celebrations were unhappily delayed by the president's debating duties.
The CNN
For many girls in Afghanistan, the simple act of walking to school can be a life-threatening journey, but despite deadly risks, Afghan girls take brave first step.
As "the walk from home to school is -- and has always been -- the most dangerous part," Nushin Arbabzadah, an American-based author and scholar who was raised in Afghanistan said. "You are told to stay covered, keep your head down and walk quickly ... and stare at your toes."