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Yahoo! News: World News: Olympic torch re-lit in Beijing (AP)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:09:51 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Zimbabwe releases first election results (AP)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:05:00 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bush off to Europe to rally Afghanistan support, farewell Putin (AFP)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:03:46 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: China blasts Dalai Lama as Olympic torch arrives (Reuters)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:58:52 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Zimbabwe announces first results as riot police deploy (AFP)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:55:23 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Australian terror trial to resume (AP)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:53:30 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Al-Sadr pulls fighters off streets (AP)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:22:50 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: US military deaths in Iraq at 4,010 (AP)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:16:39 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: French extremists dream of jihad in Iraq (AP)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:39:05 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: ANALYSIS: Iraq fighting a reality check (AP)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:32:39 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Trinidad lawmakers in laptop spat (AP)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:08:22 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Raul Castro: Cubans can have cell phones (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:45:37 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: US forces launch airstrikes in Iraq (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:43:37 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: 'Reach out to the Taliban': UK defence secretary (AFP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:40:45 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: US military deaths in Iraq at 4,005 (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:21:25 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Greece: police to guard Beijing flame (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:53:55 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Q&A on Cuban cell phone service (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:05:33 -0500

AP - Cell phone service will soon be widely available to Cubans for the first time. Some questions and answers:

Yahoo! News: World News: Rapes and 150 hostages in Central African Republic: UN (AFP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:59:19 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Striking Argentine farmers OK talks (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:21:03 -0500

AP - Argentine farmers have announced a temporary truce in a 16-day strike to open talks with the government over disputed tax increases.

Yahoo! News: World News: North Korea test-launches missiles (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:56:08 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: China says Tibet monks won't be punished (Reuters)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:50:22 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: German insurer Allianz mulling major banking merger: report (AFP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:39:53 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: African Union hails success of Anjouan operation (AFP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:20:11 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Israel says it's talking to Syria (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:44:36 -0500

AP - An Israeli Cabinet minister said Friday that Israel was trying to bring Syria back to the negotiating table.

Yahoo! News: World News: ETimor president criticises response after assassination bid (AFP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:26:14 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Iraqi PM vows to fight militas in Basra (AP)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:17:51 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Brazilian woman charged with torture (AP)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:45:09 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: NKorea blasts US delays in nuke dispute (AP)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:14:59 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Tibet monks complain to reporters (AP)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:56:28 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Mugabe fights for his political life (AP)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:17:36 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: French couple face trial for serial killings (Reuters)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:39:18 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Historic win for Sri Lanka over Windies (AFP)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:05:20 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Militiamen holding out in Basra fighting (AP)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:16:46 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Libya offers new deal to terror victims (Reuters)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:12:58 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Rabbi calls for Israel to exact revenge (AP)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:37:44 -0500

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."

Yahoo! News: World News: Foreign reporters watched on Tibet tour (AP)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:15:02 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Cell phone shutdown angers Afghans (AP)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:32:51 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: AP IMPACT: Shiite enclave back on edge (AP)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:21:15 -0500

AP - Shiite militiamen are everywhere. Police and Iraqi army checkpoints are nowhere in sight. U.S. soldiers are keeping their distance.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bird flu hits staple of Egypt's streets (AP)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:36:06 -0500

AP - Chickens used to roam every dusty street in every village across Egypt, and many of its city alleys too.

Yahoo! News: World News: Australia's Rudd vows more activist foreign policy (Reuters)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:54:50 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Argentine farm strike tests president (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:46:01 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: US Navy confirms Suez Canal shooting (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:21:06 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: New Pakistan PM sworn in by Musharraf (AFP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:16:38 -0500

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."

Yahoo! News: World News: Comoros says rebel capital captured (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:06:08 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sadrists order disobedience campaign (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:59:28 -0500

AP - Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have called for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign to protest raids and detentions.

Yahoo! News: World News: Four killed in South Africa slum blaze (AFP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:49:53 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Belarus says uncovers U.S. spy network (Reuters)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:45:21 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Austria: Up to 100 cars in pileup (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:39:58 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Palestinian force to deploy in West Bank (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:38:38 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: New Pakistani prime minister sworn in (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:22:01 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Australian building his own Stonehenge (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:38:37 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Guatemala adoption lawyers charged (AP)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:19:36 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Government nominates Tanami as BOJ chief (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:07:36 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Court frees jailed SocGen trader (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:05:36 -0500

AP - A French court Tuesday ordered the release of a Societe Generale trader accused of causing billions in losses through rogue trades.

Yahoo! News: World News: ICC facing fight to get Patel as new chief (AFP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:08:49 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: China says Tibet rioters trying to wreck Olympics (Reuters)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:20:57 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Kartik injury adds to India's problems (AFP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:14:24 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Cheney to troops: Mideast needs freedom (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:09:50 -0500

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."

Yahoo! News: World News: NZ police arrest teen in tourist murder (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:01:56 -0500

AP - A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the slaying of a Scottish tourist in New Zealand, police said Tuesday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Wen blames Tibet protests on Dalai Lama (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:42:17 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: US-Russia talks to start on upbeat note (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:32:05 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bomb kills 49 in Iraqi city of Karbala (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:01:38 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Peacekeepers battle Serbs in Kosovo (AP)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:14:16 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: NATO holds line in tense north Kosovo after riots (Reuters)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:59 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sri Lanka make most of inexperienced attack (AFP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:09:34 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Militants add week for Austrian hostages (AP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:35:40 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Female suicide bomber kills 43 in Iraq (AP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:21:16 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: China vows to hold onto Tibet (AP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:49:33 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Comoros army reports operations against rebel forces (AFP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:41:00 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Please, please me: Mills gets $48.6 M (AP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:25:07 -0500

AP - Money may not buy her love, but Paul McCartney's ex sure has a lot more of it now.

Yahoo! News: World News: Peacekeepers battle Serbs in Kosovo (AP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:44:59 -0500

Yahoo! News: World News: Mexico left picks anti-gov't party chief (AP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:43:24 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Musharraf foes convene new parliament (AP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:28:56 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bill Brown, grandfather of Australian cricket, dies at 95 (AFP)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:30:03 -0500

AFP - Bill Brown, considered the grandfather of Australian cricket, had died at 95, media reported late Monday.

Yahoo! News: World News: Ugandan leader urges harmony at Afro-Arab meeting (Reuters)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:07:57 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians (AFP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:59:36 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Wilkinson axe ridiculous, says Newcastle rugby chief (AFP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:51:35 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Car bomb kills 18 in Baghdad (AP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:37:52 -0500

AP - A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more.

Yahoo! News: World News: Archbishop kidnapped in Iraq found dead (AP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:31:00 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Gaza girls in Israel for heart surgery (AP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:51:02 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: 41 Taliban killed in south Afghanistan (AP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:30:06 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Indian police arrest Tibetan exiles (AP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:24:02 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Australia probes bungled Indian doctor terror case (AFP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:21:23 -0500

AFP - Australia ordered a judicial inquiry Thursday into the bungled case against an Indian doctor arrested over failed bomb attacks in Britain last year.

Yahoo! News: World News: Juvenile suspects face trial at Gitmo (AP)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:01:52 -0500

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."

Yahoo! News: World News: Hondurans convicted in bus massacre (AP)

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:13:39 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: UN rights chief stepping down (AP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:44:34 -0500

AP - The U.N.'s top human rights official is quitting after only one term.

Yahoo! News: World News: China urges Sudan to seek compromise in Darfur (Reuters)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:41:36 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Gunman kills 8 at Jerusalem seminary (AP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:40:56 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Sarkozy sets out France's Afghan stance to NATO: US official (AFP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:34:24 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Ferdinand Piech and Porsche family eye Audi board seat: report (AFP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:32:38 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Thais detain alleged 'Merchant of Death' (AP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:27:44 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Trade slows on Colombia-Venezuela border (AP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:22:42 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Showdown among S. American leaders looms (AP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:07:47 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Whaling protester says Japanese shot him (AFP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:58:15 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Mexico Senate approves judicial reform (AP)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:46:09 -0500

AP - Mexican senators on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence.

Yahoo! News: World News: Egypt walls up Gaza border (AP)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:49:29 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Bangladesh facing innings defeat in South Africa Test (AFP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:35:23 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Prince Harry wants another combat tour (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:34:34 -0500

AP - Prince Harry, home from his abandoned military mission to Afghanistan, said he hopes to return to combat zones as soon as possible.

Yahoo! News: World News: Tendulkar century inspires upset Indian win (AFP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:33:23 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: 8 dead in clashes in Armenia (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:23:14 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Ahmadinejad calls Iraq 'brotherly' (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:20:10 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Russia votes for Putin's successor (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:19:25 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Israeli aircraft target Hamas office (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:18:11 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Egypt to treat wounded Palestinians (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:07:04 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: US: Major al-Qaida figure killed (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:53:50 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: East Timor shooting suspect in custody (AP)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:45:58 -0500

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.

Yahoo! News: World News: Senior Colombian rebel commander killed (AP)

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:26:39 -0500

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.