AP - The Olympic torch was re-lit Monday at an elaborate ceremony that signaled the start of a round-the-world relay that is expected to be a lightning rod for protests against China's policies and human rights practices.
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Olympic torch re-lit in Beijing (AP)
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:09am EST
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Zimbabwe releases first election results (AP)
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:05am EST
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AP - Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission began announcing official results Monday of elections the opposition party claims to have won, after a delay that heightened fears of rigging and brought security forces onto the streets.
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Bush off to Europe to rally Afghanistan support, farewell Putin (AFP)
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:03am EST
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AFP - US President George W. Bush heads to Europe Monday to push NATO allies for more support in Afghanistan and to meet with his outgoing Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
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China blasts Dalai Lama as Olympic torch arrives (Reuters)
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 2:58am EST
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Reuters - China has stepped up attacks on the
Dalai Lama, blasting him for abusing religion, stirring
protests in Tibet and preparing for independence as the Olympic
flame arrived in Beijing on Monday under tight security.
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Zimbabwe announces first results as riot police deploy (AFP)
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 2:55am EST
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AFP - Authorities began releasing the first results Monday from Zimbabwe's general election after being accused of sitting on the outcome in a desperate bid to help President Robert Mugabe cling to power.
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Australian terror trial to resume (AP)
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 2:53am EST
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AP - A judge ruled Monday that a terror trial can resume this week after justice officials improved the detention conditions for the 12 suspects at his direction. -
Al-Sadr pulls fighters off streets (AP)
Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:22am EST
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AP - In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets Sunday but called on the government to stop its raids against his followers.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 4,010 (AP)
Posted: March 30th, 2008, 8:16pm EST
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AP - As of Sunday, March 30, 2008, at least 4,010 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 3,261 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. -
French extremists dream of jihad in Iraq (AP)
Posted: March 30th, 2008, 6:39pm EST
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AP - Boubakeur el Hakim traded his Paris neighborhood of boulangeries and halal butcher shops for the insurgent camps of Iraq. When he came home, he told his war stories to other young men on the forgotten edges of French society, allegedly persuading some to follow in his footsteps.
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ANALYSIS: Iraq fighting a reality check (AP)
Posted: March 30th, 2008, 5:32pm EST
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AP - The Iraqi capital locked down by curfew. U.S. diplomats holed up their workplaces, fearing rocket attacks. Nearly every major southern city racked by turmoil. Hundreds killed in less than a week.
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Trinidad lawmakers in laptop spat (AP)
Posted: March 30th, 2008, 1:08am EST
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AP - Trinidad's main opposition leader has been suspended from parliament after he failed to ask permission to use his laptop computer during a debate and ignored a request to put it away. -
Raul Castro: Cubans can have cell phones (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:45pm EST
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AP - First microwaves, now cell phones. Is this the new Cuba? Raul Castro is revolutionizing his brother's island in small but significant ways the latest in a decree Friday allowing ordinary Cubans to have cell phone service, a luxury previously reserved for the select few. The new president could be betting greater access to such modern gadgets will quell demand for deeper change.
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US forces launch airstrikes in Iraq (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:43pm EST
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AP - U.S. forces stepped deeper Friday into the Iraqi government's fight to cripple Shiite militias, launching airstrikes in the southern city of Basra and firing a missile into the main Shiite stronghold in Baghdad.
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'Reach out to the Taliban': UK defence secretary (AFP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:40pm EST
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AFP - Britain should reach out to elements of the Taliban militia in Afghanistan who can be won over to the side of democracy, Defence Secretary Des Browne said in a newspaper interview published Saturday.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 4,005 (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:21pm EST
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AP - As of Friday, March 28, 2008, at least 4,005 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 3,261 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. -
Greece: police to guard Beijing flame (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:53pm EST
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AP - Greek police are stepping up security during the Beijing Olympic torch relay over the weekend to prevent protesters from disrupting the event, officials said Friday. -
Q&A on Cuban cell phone service (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:05pm EST
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AP - Cell phone service will soon be widely available to Cubans for the first time. Some questions and answers: -
Rapes and 150 hostages in Central African Republic: UN (AFP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 5:59pm EST
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AFP - Rebel fighters attacked villages in the Central African Republic, raping women and taking 150 hostages, including 55 children, UN officials here and in Bangui said Friday.
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Striking Argentine farmers OK talks (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 3:21pm EST
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AP - Argentine farmers have announced a temporary truce in a 16-day strike to open talks with the government over disputed tax increases. -
North Korea test-launches missiles (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:56am EST
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AP - North Korea test-fired a barrage of short-range missiles on Friday in apparent response to the new South Korean government's tougher stance on Pyongyang.
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China says Tibet monks won't be punished (Reuters)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:50am EST
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Reuters - China will not punish a group of
Tibetan monks for disrupting a government-organized foreign
media tour of Lhasa and voicing support for the Dalai Lama, a
senior official said in a bid to allay fears of repercussions.
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German insurer Allianz mulling major banking merger: report (AFP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:39am EST
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AFP - The German insurance company Allianz is mulling the possibility of contributing its banking unit Dresdner Bank to a three-way merger that would include Commerzbank and Deutsche Postbank, a press report said Friday.
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African Union hails success of Anjouan operation (AFP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:20am EST
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AFP - The African Union on Friday hailed the military operation to oust the renegade leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan as a success and pledged to pursue efforts towards reconstruction.
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Israel says it's talking to Syria (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:44am EST
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AP - An Israeli Cabinet minister said Friday that Israel was trying to bring Syria back to the negotiating table. -
ETimor president criticises response after assassination bid (AFP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 12:26am EST
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AFP - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has criticised the response of international forces as he lay bleeding in the road for 30 minutes after being shot outside his home last month.
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Iraqi PM vows to fight militas in Basra (AP)
Posted: March 28th, 2008, 12:17am EST
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AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged "no retreat" Thursday in the fight against Shiite militias in the southern city of Basra, as thousands of protesters demanded he resign over the crackdown and extremists fired rockets into the U.S.-protected Green Zone.
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Brazilian woman charged with torture (AP)
Posted: March 27th, 2008, 11:45pm EST
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AP - Brazilian police said Thursday that charges have been filed against a businesswoman who claims she was "educating" a 12-year-old girl by allegedly torturing and chaining her to an iron staircase. -
NKorea blasts US delays in nuke dispute (AP)
Posted: March 27th, 2008, 11:14pm EST
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AP - North Korea blamed the United States for the deadlock in their nuclear negotiations, warning Friday that the Americans' attitude could "gravely" affect ongoing disablement of its atomic facilities.
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Tibet monks complain to reporters (AP)
Posted: March 27th, 2008, 10:56pm EST
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AP - China's Tibet problem got a human face this week in images of crying, red-robed monks, giving international concern a new focal point just as Beijing gears up for the arrival of the Olympic torch.
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Mugabe fights for his political life (AP)
Posted: March 27th, 2008, 9:17pm EST
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AP - The word is out: The Spar supermarket has bread at only $7 million a loaf. People rush to the shelf duly marked $7 million, but by the time they reach the till with their hyper-inflated Zimbabwean dollars, the price is up to $25 million.
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French couple face trial for serial killings (Reuters)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 6:39pm EST
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Reuters - A self-confessed killer dubbed the "Ogre
of the Ardennes" faces trial on Thursday for raping and
murdering seven young women with the help of his wife in one of
the worst serial murder cases in recent French history.
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Historic win for Sri Lanka over Windies (AFP)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 6:05pm EST
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AFP - Chaminda Vaas played a starring role with the ball, as Sri Lanka created a bit of history, when they completed a 121-run victory over West Indies in the opening Test on Wednesday.
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Militiamen holding out in Basra fighting (AP)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 5:16pm EST
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AP - Iraq's prime minister warned gunmen in the oil port of Basra to surrender their weapons by Friday or face harsher measures, as clashes between security forces and Shiite militia fighters spread throughout the south and in Baghdad.
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Libya offers new deal to terror victims (Reuters)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 5:12pm EST
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Reuters - Libya has proposed a "comprehensive"
new deal to the United States aimed at resolving a string of
cases to compensate terrorism victims, a senior U.S. official
said on Wednesday.
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Rabbi calls for Israel to exact revenge (AP)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 4:37pm EST
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AP - A prominent rabbi urged the Israeli government Wednesday to avenge the shooting attack that killed eight Jewish seminary students earlier this month, saying members of the Palestinian gunman's family should "hang ... from a high tree." -
Foreign reporters watched on Tibet tour (AP)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 4:15pm EST
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AP - Nearly two weeks after anti-Chinese riots and an ensuing crackdown, helmeted paramilitary police with batons checked identification papers in Lhasa's old Tibetan quarter Wednesday, even as the government said the city was returning to normal.
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Cell phone shutdown angers Afghans (AP)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:32pm EST
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AP - Taliban attacks on telecom towers have prompted cell phone companies to shut down service across southern Afghanistan at night, angering a quarter million customers who have no other telephones.
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AP IMPACT: Shiite enclave back on edge (AP)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:21pm EST
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AP - Shiite militiamen are everywhere. Police and Iraqi army checkpoints are nowhere in sight. U.S. soldiers are keeping their distance.
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Bird flu hits staple of Egypt's streets (AP)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 12:36pm EST
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AP - Chickens used to roam every dusty street in every village across Egypt, and many of its city alleys too.
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Australia's Rudd vows more activist foreign policy (Reuters)
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:54am EST
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Reuters - Australia will play a more activist
role in world affairs as it seeks too boost its middle-power
influence, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday ahead of
a major overseas trip.
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Argentine farm strike tests president (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 11:46pm EST
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AP - President Cristina Fernandez refused to ease tax hikes on agricultural exports Tuesday, facing down angry farmers embroiled in a nationwide strike that has all but halted production in one of the world's biggest beef-exporting nations.
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US Navy confirms Suez Canal shooting (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:21am EST
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AP - An American cargo ship under contract to the U.S. Navy opened fire on a small Egyptian boat while moving through the Suez Canal, the U.S. military said Tuesday in a statement. Egyptian authorities said at least one man was killed, but the U.S. said it had no reports of casualties. -
New Pakistan PM sworn in by Musharraf (AFP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:16am EST
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AFP - Pakistan's new prime minister was sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf Tuesday, as two senior US envoys arrived in an apparent bid to shore up Islamabad's support for the "war on terror."
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Comoros says rebel capital captured (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 6:06am EST
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AP - The Comoros government captured the capital of the rebel-held island of Anjouan on Tuesday, just hours after an African Union-backed military operation got under way to oust a renegade colonel who took power in May, a defense official said.
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Sadrists order disobedience campaign (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:59am EST
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AP - Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have called for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign to protest raids and detentions.
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Four killed in South Africa slum blaze (AFP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:49am EST
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AFP - Four people, including two children, were killed while at least 120 shacks were destroyed in a fire which broke out at dawn in a slum area near Cape Town, a safety official said.
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Belarus says uncovers U.S. spy network (Reuters)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:45am EST
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Reuters - The intelligence agency in Belarus, an ex-Soviet state locked in a diplomatic row with Washington, confirmed on Tuesday that a espionage ring working for the United States had been uncovered in the country. -
Austria: Up to 100 cars in pileup (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:39am EST
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AP - Police say between 50 and 100 vehicles were involved in a pileup on an autobahn in western Austria Tuesday and that a "larger number" of people were believed injured. -
Palestinian force to deploy in West Bank (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:38am EST
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AP - Israel's defense minister says he will soon allow 600 foreign-trained Palestinian police to take up positions in the West Bank town of Jenin, a site of frequent clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants.
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New Pakistani prime minister sworn in (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 5:22am EST
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AP - President Pervez Musharraf swore in a loyalist of slain ex-leader Benazir Bhutto as prime minister Tuesday, while two top U.S. envoys held talks with Pakistan's old and new leaders in what some viewed as an ill-timed visit.
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Australian building his own Stonehenge (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 3:38am EST
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AP - Pagans and druids, mark your calendars and book your airplane tickets. An Australian entrepreneur hopes to open a Stonehenge replica by the Dec. 21 solstice, just in time for New Age revelers. -
Guatemala adoption lawyers charged (AP)
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 12:19am EST
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AP - Two Guatemalan lawyers retained by an adoption agency that has sent scores of children to the U.S. have been charged with fraud and human trafficking, their attorneys said on Monday. -
Government nominates Tanami as BOJ chief (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 6:07am EST
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AP - The government nominated a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat to head the central bank Tuesday, raising the likelihood its proposal will again be rejected by the opposition a day before the current governor's term ends.
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Court frees jailed SocGen trader (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 6:05am EST
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AP - A French court Tuesday ordered the release of a Societe Generale trader accused of causing billions in losses through rogue trades.
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ICC facing fight to get Patel as new chief (AFP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 5:08am EST
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AFP - Imtiaz Patel's appointment as the next chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC) is "not a done deal" according to his current employers, the SuperSport television company in South Africa.
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China says Tibet rioters trying to wreck Olympics (Reuters)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 3:20am EST
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Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao accused the
Dalai Lama of orchestrating riots in Tibet in which dozens may
have died and said his followers were trying to "incite
sabotage" of Beijing's August Olympic Games.
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Kartik injury adds to India's problems (AFP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 3:14am EST
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AFP - India's injury woes ahead of next week's Test series against South Africa increased on Tuesday after recalled spinner Murali Kartik was ruled out with a torn ligament.
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Cheney to troops: Mideast needs freedom (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 3:09am EST
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AP - Rallying troops after an overnight stay at an air base, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that as long as freedom is suppressed in the Mideast, the region will remain a place of "stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export."
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NZ police arrest teen in tourist murder (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 3:01am EST
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AP - A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the slaying of a Scottish tourist in New Zealand, police said Tuesday. -
Wen blames Tibet protests on Dalai Lama (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 2:42am EST
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AP - The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control.
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US-Russia talks to start on upbeat note (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 2:32am EST
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AP - Vladimir Putin, president of Russia for a few more weeks, surprised President Bush's top Cabinet officers with welcoming words about cooperation with the U.S., even as he warned that serious disagreements remain.
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Bomb kills 49 in Iraqi city of Karbala (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 2:01am EST
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AP - A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 49 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.
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Peacekeepers battle Serbs in Kosovo (AP)
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 12:14am EST
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AP - Serb demonstrators attacked international peacekeepers with rocks, grenades and Molotov cocktails Monday, setting off the worst violence in Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last month.
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NATO holds line in tense north Kosovo after riots (Reuters)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 6:10pm EST
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Reuters - NATO troops secured a hostile
strip of north Kosovo on Tuesday after Serb riots forced the
pullout of U.N. personnel in the most serious challenge to the
state since it split from Serbia last month.
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Sri Lanka make most of inexperienced attack (AFP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 6:09pm EST
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AFP - Malinda Warnapura and Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene warmed-up for the first Test against West Indies later this week when they took advantage of an inexperienced Guyana Cricket Board President's Select XI attack on Monday.
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Militants add week for Austrian hostages (AP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:35pm EST
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AP - The Islamist militant group that kidnapped two Austrians last month in Tunisia is extending the deadline for the meeting of its demands by a week, according to a statement posted on militant Web sites Monday.
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Female suicide bomber kills 43 in Iraq (AP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 5:21pm EST
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AP - A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.
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China vows to hold onto Tibet (AP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 4:49pm EST
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AP - China vowed Monday to defend its sovereignty in Tibet as Chinese troops set up checkpoints and mobilized to quell an uprising. A deadline for protesters in the Tibetan capital to turn themselves in passed without any apparent surrenders or arrests.
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Comoros army reports operations against rebel forces (AFP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 4:41pm EST
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AFP - The Comoran army conducted two operations in Anjouan island, killing "dozens" of rebel forces, ahead of a planned African Union-led military invasion, the army chief said Monday.
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Please, please me: Mills gets $48.6 M (AP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 4:25pm EST
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AP - Money may not buy her love, but Paul McCartney's ex sure has a lot more of it now.
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Peacekeepers battle Serbs in Kosovo (AP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 3:44pm EST
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AP - Serb demonstrators attacked international peacekeepers with rocks, grenades and Molotov cocktails Monday, setting off the worst violence in Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last month.
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Mexico left picks anti-gov't party chief (AP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 1:43pm EST
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AP - A former Mexico City mayor who favors a hard line against President Felipe Calderon's government will be the new head of the country's main leftist party, according to preliminary returns released Monday. -
Musharraf foes convene new parliament (AP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 1:28pm EST
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AP - Lawmakers wearing lapel pins with pictures of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto vowed a new dawn for democracy Monday as Pakistan's parliament convened for the first time since opponents of the president swept to victory in last month's elections.
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Bill Brown, grandfather of Australian cricket, dies at 95 (AFP)
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 12:30pm EST
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AFP - Bill Brown, considered the grandfather of Australian cricket, had died at 95, media reported late Monday.
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Ugandan leader urges harmony at Afro-Arab meeting (Reuters)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 10:07am EST
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Reuters - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has
called for an end to racial and religious tensions between
Africa's mainly Arab north and its largely black sub-Saharan
region, saying they could cause conflict.
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Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians (AFP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 9:59am EST
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AFP - Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan on Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border, the army said.
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Wilkinson axe ridiculous, says Newcastle rugby chief (AFP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 9:51am EST
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AFP - England's decision to drop Jonny Wilkinson for Saturday's Six Nations clash with Ireland has been branded "ridiculous" by Steve Bates, director of rugby at the flyhalf's club Newcastle.
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Car bomb kills 18 in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 9:37am EST
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AP - A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more.
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Archbishop kidnapped in Iraq found dead (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 8:31am EST
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AP - The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq last month was found just outside the northern city of Mosul, officials said Thursday. -
Gaza girls in Israel for heart surgery (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 6:51am EST
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AP - Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up Wednesday to operate on three young girls from the Gaza Strip under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between the Hamas-ruled territory and the Jewish state.
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41 Taliban killed in south Afghanistan (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 5:30am EST
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AP - Afghan and international forces killed 41 Taliban militants in a battle in southern Afghanistan, and a suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of U.S. troops left six Afghan civilians dead in Kabul, U.S. and Afghan officials said Thursday.
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Indian police arrest Tibetan exiles (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 4:24am EST
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AP - Police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles as they marched to their homeland Thursday in protest of China's hosting of the Olympic Games, charging them with threatening the "peace and tranquility" of the region, officials said.
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Australia probes bungled Indian doctor terror case (AFP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 3:21am EST
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AFP - Australia ordered a judicial inquiry Thursday into the bungled case against an Indian doctor arrested over failed bomb attacks in Britain last year.
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Juvenile suspects face trial at Gitmo (AP)
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 3:01am EST
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AP - An Afghan detainee who was captured as a teenager railed in court against the U.S. military's tribunal system and said he will boycott his trial, telling the judge: "Don't bother me anymore."
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Hondurans convicted in bus massacre (AP)
Posted: March 12th, 2008, 11:13pm EST
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AP - Two Honduran gang members were convicted Wednesday of opening fire on a bus and killing 28 people, and each was condemned to the country's maximum 40 years in jail. -
UN rights chief stepping down (AP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:44am EST
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AP - The U.N.'s top human rights official is quitting after only one term. -
China urges Sudan to seek compromise in Darfur (Reuters)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:41am EST
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Reuters - China has urged Sudan to do more to
stop fighting in Darfur and speed the arrival of more
peacekeepers, Beijing's envoy on the crisis said, defending his
country as a diplomatic bridge to help end the bloodshed.
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Gunman kills 8 at Jerusalem seminary (AP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:40am EST
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AP - A gunman entered the library of a rabbinical seminary and opened fire on a crowded nighttime study session Thursday, killing eight people and wounding nine before he was slain, police and rescue workers said. It was the first major militant attack in Jerusalem in more than four years.
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Sarkozy sets out France's Afghan stance to NATO: US official (AFP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:34am EST
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AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy has written to France's NATO allies to lay out Paris's position on Afghanistan ahead of an alliance summit, a US official said.
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Ferdinand Piech and Porsche family eye Audi board seat: report (AFP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:32am EST
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AFP - Influential Volkswagen supervisory board president Ferdinand Piech and the Porsche family want to join the supervisory board of VW's lucrative Audi division, a press report said Friday.
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Thais detain alleged 'Merchant of Death' (AP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:27am EST
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AP - A Russian dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for allegedly supplying weapons to Africa's bloody conflicts over power and diamonds was arrested Thursday in Thailand on suspicion of conspiring to smuggle guns to Colombia's leftist rebels.
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Trade slows on Colombia-Venezuela border (AP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:22am EST
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AP - Dora Gomez pays for her son's college by selling candies, such as Guava-flavored treats wrapped in dried banana leaves. But there's a problem: She's running out of sweets, and she's worried she won't be able to get any more.
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Showdown among S. American leaders looms (AP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 3:07am EST
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AP - A showdown loomed Friday for the presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela in this seaside capital as a summit of Latin American leaders aimed to calm a crisis triggered by a deadly Colombian cross-border raid.
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Whaling protester says Japanese shot him (AFP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 2:58am EST
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AFP - The captain of a protest ship harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean said he was shot in a clash Friday and his crew members pelted with flash grenades, injuring one.
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Mexico Senate approves judicial reform (AP)
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 12:46am EST
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AP - Mexican senators on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence. -
Egypt walls up Gaza border (AP)
Posted: March 6th, 2008, 9:49pm EST
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AP - Egypt is building a 13-foot high concrete and rock wall interspersed with watch towers along its narrow boundary with the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas militants from breaching the border, an official said Thursday. -
Bangladesh facing innings defeat in South Africa Test (AFP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:35am EST
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AFP - Bangladesh were staring at a huge defeat after yet another disappointing batting performance on the third day of the second and final Test against South Africa here on Sunday.
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Prince Harry wants another combat tour (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:34am EST
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AP - Prince Harry, home from his abandoned military mission to Afghanistan, said he hopes to return to combat zones as soon as possible.
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Tendulkar century inspires upset Indian win (AFP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:33am EST
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AFP - A historic Sachin Tendulkar century ensured India claimed first blood in the tri-series finals with a stunning six-wicket win over Australia at the SCG here on Sunday.
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8 dead in clashes in Armenia (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:23am EST
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AP - Eight people died in clashes between police and opposition supporters that led the president to declare a sweeping, 20-day state of emergency, officials said Sunday.
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Ahmadinejad calls Iraq 'brotherly' (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:20am EST
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AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his landmark visit to Iraq opened a new chapter in "brotherly" relations between the two countries, which were once bitter enemies.
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Russia votes for Putin's successor (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:19am EST
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AP - Russia's voters are expected to endorse Vladimir Putin's choice of a successor in Sunday's presidential election, allowing Putin to retain a measure of power in his nation, whose wealth and global voice have grown even as democratic freedoms diminished.
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Israeli aircraft target Hamas office (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:18am EST
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AP - Israeli aircraft sent missiles slamming into the office of the prime minister of Hamas-ruled Gaza before dawn on Sunday, pressing forward with an offensive that has killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days of fighting. A 21-month-old girl was among the dead in new violence.
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Egypt to treat wounded Palestinians (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 7:07am EST
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AP - Egypt opened its only crossing with the Gaza Strip to receive wounded Palestinians on Sunday, a medical official said, a day after 54 people were killed in Israel's latest offensive against militants firing rockets from the territory.
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US: Major al-Qaida figure killed (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 6:53am EST
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AP - A U.S. military helicopter fired a guided missile to kill a wanted Saudi Arabian al-Qaida in Iraq leader who was believed responsible for the bombing deaths of five American soldiers, a spokesman said Monday.
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East Timor shooting suspect in custody (AP)
Posted: March 2nd, 2008, 4:45am EST
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AP - An ex-policeman suspected of having shot and wounded East Timor's president last month was in custody Sunday after surrendering to police, military officials said.
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Senior Colombian rebel commander killed (AP)
Posted: March 1st, 2008, 11:26pm EST
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AP - Troops killed a senior commander of Colombia's largest rebel army in an air-and-ground raid Saturday, as the U.S.-backed military dealt a stunning setback to the nation's leftist insurgency.