AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Indonesia Monday to discuss potential sales of military aircraft and deeper military ties, despite wariness on the part of both US lawmakers and Jakarta.
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US defence chief in Indonesia talks on military ties (AFP)
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:36am EST
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Chinese say compulsory Peking Opera classes off key (Reuters)
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:34am EST
Reuters - A programme launched in China to teach traditional Peking opera in schools has drawn criticism from some Internet users who said untrained teachers and forced instruction might put off students from the 200-year-old art. -
South Korea's new president takes office (AP)
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:52am EST
AP - Hard-charging former businessman Lee Myung-bak took the oath of office as South Korea's new president Monday, vowing to revitalize the economy, strengthen relations with the U.S. and deal with nuclear-armed North Korea.
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Cuba's communist system unshaken (AP)
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:50am EST
AP - Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president on Sunday, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel but leaving the island's communist system unshaken.
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Whalers hit by foul Antarctic weather, protesters say (AFP)
Posted: February 25th, 2008, 12:26am EST
AFP - Militant animal rights activists chasing Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters said Monday they were battling raging seas and snow storms that had put the hunt on hold.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 3,972 (AP)
Posted: February 24th, 2008, 11:25pm EST
AP - As of Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, at least 3,972 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,228 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. -
A look at Raul Castro's life (AP)
Posted: February 24th, 2008, 9:18pm EST
AP - NAME: Raul Castro Ruz -
7 re-charged in Israeli Embassy attack (AP)
Posted: February 24th, 2008, 8:05pm EST
AP - Seven men face new charges after being released from jail earlier this month for lack of evidence linking them to an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania, a judge said Sunday. -
ANALYSIS: Cubans used to Raul Castro (AP)
Posted: February 24th, 2008, 6:22pm EST
AP - Cuba's new President Raul Castro shuns the spotlight and often looks uncomfortable when he has to appear in public. Friends call him "the Prussian" for his cold, efficient style and describe his leadership as businesslike even boring.
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Shiite pilgrims targeted in attacks (AP)
Posted: February 24th, 2008, 4:23pm EST
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up among Shiite pilgrims taking a break Sunday during their days-long march to a shrine for a major religious gathering. The blast killed at least 40 people and wounded 60, making it one of the deadliest this year.
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Pakistan militants call for dialogue (AP)
Posted: February 24th, 2008, 3:26pm EST
AP - Taliban-style militants battling government forces in northwest Pakistan said Sunday they wanted dialogue with the winners of parliamentary elections and urged the new leadership to abandon President Pervez Musharraf's war on terror.
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Turkish troops enter Iraq seeking rebels (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 5:05pm EST
AP - Supported by air power, Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq on Friday in their first major ground incursion against Kurdish rebel bases in nearly a decade. But Turkey sought to avoid confrontation with U.S.-backed Iraq, saying the guerrillas were its only target.
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Indian business empire eyes global role (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:46pm EST
AP - A dozen years ago, many believed that India's Tata Group the country's oldest and largest conglomerate was a bloated behemoth that would eventually go under. -
Search for Nazi plunder moving forward (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:42pm EST
AP - There's something big and metallic 60 feet below the ground in this tiny town near the Czech border.
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IAEA: Iran disputes atomic arms evidence (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:36pm EST
AP - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Friday that Iran is defying a U.N. Security Council ban on uranium enrichment and accusing the U.S. and its allies of fabricating information to back up claims that Tehran is making nuclear weapons.
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Kosovo Serb protesters attack UN police (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:28pm EST
AP - Violent protests rocked Serb-dominated northern Kosovo on Friday, as mobs chanting "Kosovo is ours!" hurled stones, bottles and firecrackers at U.N. police guarding a bridge that divides Serbs from ethnic Albanians.
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Turkey-Kurds: a timeline (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 4:10pm EST
AP - A look at recent major events in the fight between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels: -
AU boss pushes for deal in Kenyan political crisis (AFP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 3:57pm EST
AFP - African Union Commission chief Jean Ping pushed Friday for a quick resolution of Kenya's political crisis, which has claimed more than 1,000 lives, as rival sides worked on a power-sharing deal.
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US envoy sees Iran sanctions next week (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 3:50pm EST
AP - The latest United Nations report on Iran's nuclear program should pave the way for passage next week of a new U.N. Security Council resolution tightening sanctions on Tehran, the American U.N. ambassador said Friday.
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Mob kidnaps about 30 police in Guatemala (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 3:24pm EST
AP - An angry mob took about 30 police officers hostage in Guatemala and threatened to kill them unless authorities release a jailed farm leader, a police official said Friday. -
Al-Sadr praised for extending cease-fire (AP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 2:58pm EST
AP - Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr opted Friday to keep the cease-fire order for his Mahdi Army militia in place for another six months, a step that will hold down U.S. and Iraqi casualties while bolstering al-Sadr's importance as a political player as Iraqi factions jostle for power.
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East Timor extends state of emergency (AFP)
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 2:32pm EST
AFP - East Timor extended Friday a state of emergency put in place after attacks last week on its top two leaders and boosted the hunt for the rebels thought responsible, officials said.
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Bush: Kosovo should align with Europe (AP)
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 3:18am EST
AP - President Bush said Sunday it's in Kosovo's interest to be aligned with Europe, and that its status must resolved in order for the Balkans to be stable.
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Bosses less likely to have cancer: Australian study (AFP)
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 3:04am EST
AFP - Managers are less likely to have cancer, while shop assistants have a greater chance of suffering back pain and nurses have a higher rate of heart disease, according to a new Australian study.
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3 dead after New Zealand air collision (AP)
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 2:51am EST
AP - Three people were killed after a light plane and a helicopter collided in mid-air north of New Zealand's capital Sunday, police said. -
Hamas: Abbas aides plotted assassination (AP)
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 2:29am EST
AP - Gaza's Hamas rulers on Saturday accused aides of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of being behind an alleged plot to assassinate a top Hamas official.
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Albanian triumph, Serb anger as Kosovo secedes (Reuters)
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 2:16am EST
Reuters - Kosovo Albanians will proclaim
independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in
the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia but cementing a bitter ethnic
frontline in the Balkans.
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Dozens killed, wounded in Afghan attack (AP)
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 2:11am EST
AP - A bombing at an outdoor dog fighting competition killed and wounded dozens of people in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, an official and a witness said.
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Pakistan campaign rally bombing kills 40 (AP)
Posted: February 17th, 2008, 2:04am EST
AP - A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a crowd following a rally for a candidate allied with the opposition, killing at least 40 people and heightening fears of Islamic militant violence during Monday's crucial parliamentary elections.
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Australia to allow more migrants to ease skills shortage (Reuters)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 10:31pm EST
Reuters - Australia said on Sunday it was relaxing its migration program to allow more skilled workers into the country where the jobless rate is at a three-decade low and most companies face a labor shortage. -
China warns of new wave of coal mine disasters (Reuters)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 10:27pm EST
Reuters - China, home to the world's deadliest mining industry, could be faced with a new wave of accidents as collieries start operations again following severe winter weather which forced many to close. -
US military deaths in Iraq at 3,961 (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 7:18pm EST
AP - As of Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008, at least 3,961 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,225 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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Singer, 104, takes stage amid protests (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 7:01pm EST
AP - Several dozen people protested outside a theater Saturday where a 104-year-old singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took the stage in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades.
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Pakistan campaign rally bombing kills 37 (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 6:20pm EST
AP - A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a crowd following a rally for a candidate allied with the opposition, killing 37 people and heightening fears of Islamic militant violence during Monday's crucial parliamentary elections.
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Bush discusses Kenya, terrorism and aid on Africa tour (Reuters)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 6:07pm EST
Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
discusses Africa's crises and a mounting terrorist threat on
Sunday but he will try to keep his tour of the continent
focused on the good news of projects to fight AIDS and malaria.
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Gitmo interrogator describes tactics (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 3:51pm EST
AP - Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters last summer and they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military's chief interrogator here said. -
In Kosovo, it's 'Independence Eve' (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 3:47pm EST
AP - Tiny Kosovo poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people and years of limbo under U.N. rule.
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Pakistan votes; fears violence, rigging (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 2:57pm EST
AP - Eight weeks after Benazir Bhutto was slain, Pakistan is holding elections that could shepherd a troubled nation into a new era of civilian rule and gird it against the Islamic extremists suspected of her killing.
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Haiti's efforts to save trees falters (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 2:48pm EST
AP - Far from the spreading slums of the Haitian capital, past barren dirt mountains and hillsides stripped to a chalky white core, two woodcutters bring down a towering oak tree in one of the few forested valleys left in the Caribbean country.
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Kosovo PM hails slain rebel (AP)
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 2:33pm EST
AP - On the eve of Kosovo's declaration of independence, its prime minister paid tribute Saturday to an ethnic Albanian family whose 1998 slaying became a rallying point for the province's struggle to break away from Serbia. -
Israel building plans anger Palestinians (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:12pm EST
AP - Israel is planning to build 1,100 new apartments for Israelis in east Jerusalem, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday, angering Palestinians who want the area as a capital of their future state and further troubling peace talks.
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The US troop surge, a year later (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:08pm EST
AP - A year ago in Baghdad: Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents owned entire neighborhoods and key areas beyond. Iraq's government was adrift, and U.S. commanders weighed the real possibility of being trapped in a full-scale civil war. -
Kenyan politicians discuss power-sharing (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:06pm EST
AP - Peace talks to end postelection bloodshed in Kenya moved to a secret location Tuesday for a final push. Negotiators said the opposition has proposed sharing power with the government for two years and then holding new elections.
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Russia: Bombers flight routine patrol (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 12:01pm EST
AP - The Russian military said Tuesday that its bombers' flyover of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific was part of a routine patrol conducted in accordance with international rules.
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US officials may travel to Okinawa to follow up rape case (AFP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 11:52am EST
AFP - Senior US officials based in Japan may travel to the southern island of Okinawa to follow up on the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl there by a US Marine, a US official said here Tuesday.
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Pakistani troops fan out ahead of polls (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:54am EST
AP - Tens of thousands of troops fanned out across Pakistan on Tuesday to bolster security ahead of next week's parliamentary elections, but senior military officials say they would not try to interfere with the vote.
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Trial of 9/11 plotters faces hurdles (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:30am EST
AP - Nearly 6 1/2 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. is preparing to prosecute six of the men it says are responsible. But the trial and verdicts remain a long way off in the death penalty cases.
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Puerto Rican may be extradited to Conn. (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 10:27am EST
AP - A judge has ruled that an alleged member of a militant Puerto Rican independence group should be extradited to Connecticut to face charges in a 1983 robbery. -
Sadrists condemn journalists kidnapping (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 9:47am EST
AP - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office on Tuesday condemned the kidnapping of two CBS journalists in the southern city of Basra, while Iraqi police said an intensive search was under way for the men.
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Troops patrol East Timor as president recuperates (AFP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 9:46am EST
AFP - Troops and police enforced a state of emergency across East Timor on Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated from an assassination bid that doctors said he was lucky to survive.
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Danes nab suspects in cartoonist plot (AP)
Posted: February 12th, 2008, 7:49am EST
AP - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested three people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago. -
Scandal hits famed Oxford debating club (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 12:09pm EST
AP - Corrupt campaigning practices. Charges of sexual harassment. Racial and gender issues. A presidential election thrown out, the winner disqualified, the loser withdrawn. -
21 killed, 100 wounded in Somalia attack (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 11:44am EST
AP - A grenade attack in northeastern Somalia killed 21 people and wounded 100, officials said Wednesday, raising the toll a day after the explosion. -
Militants declare cease-fire in Pakistan (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 10:16am EST
AP - A coalition of Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan declared an "indefinite" cease-fire Wednesday in fighting against security forces. The government said it was preparing for peace talks.
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US says al-Qaida in Iraq using children (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 10:15am EST
AP - Videotapes seized during U.S. raids on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq hide-outs show the terror group training young boys to kidnap and assassinate civilians, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
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New Thai government takes office (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 9:30am EST
AP - Thailand made an uneasy return to democracy Wednesday with the swearing-in of a Cabinet dominated by loyalists to the prime minister ousted nearly 17 months ago in a military coup.
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Kenya opposition threatens new rallies (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 9:30am EST
AP - Kenya's opposition threatened mass rallies Wednesday to stop a gathering of African foreign ministers in Nairobi because they were not consulted about the meeting.
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US, Iraqi raids net 20 suspects (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 5:04am EST
AP - U.S. and Iraqi forces detained 20 suspected insurgents in four days of raids across Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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Shrine bombing kills 1 in south Thailand (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 5:02am EST
AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a bomb near a Chinese shrine in southern Thailand on Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding six other people. -
BSkyB chalks up net loss in first half (AFP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:44am EST
AFP - British satellite broadcaster BSkyB, controlled by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, on Wednesday posted a net loss in the first half of its financial year while seeing a gain in revenues.
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BHP Billiton raises Rio Tinto takeover bid (AFP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:44am EST
AFP - BHP Billiton sweetened its hostile takeover bid for Rio Tinto on Wednesday by lifting its valuation of the mining giant to 147.4 billion dollars as it seeks to exploit a resources boom driven by China.
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Niger Delta militants kill policeman, kidnap politician 's wife (AFP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:37am EST
AFP - Armed men killed a policeman in an overnight attack and kidnapped the wife of a prominent politician in southern Nigeria's oil hub Port Harcourt, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 4:03am EST
AP - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old.
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Overseas voting: online for the 1st time (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 2:34am EST
AP - Americans seeking a change in foreign policy and a new national image abroad flocked to churches in Rome, town halls in England and an Irish pub in Hong Kong on Tuesday to vote in a Democrats Abroad primary.
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8 dead in Israeli strikes in Gaza (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 2:03am EST
AP - Israel launched airstrikes against militants firing rockets from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and vowed to maintain a war "on all fronts" until the territory's Hamas rulers halt attacks.
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Chad soldiers block flight from capital (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2008, 1:05am EST
AP - Chad's president said his government was in control of the entire country Wednesday, speaking publicly for the first time since rebels tried to overthrow him.
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Brazil's carnival ends wit