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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:33pm EST
AP - The captain and the navigating officer of a cargo ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to a series of charges.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:24pm EST
AP - Venezuela has been sending diesel fuel to Syria and the government of President Hugo Chavez has no plans to halt the shipments, the country's energy minister said Tuesday.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:14pm EST
AP - Interpol says 25 suspected Anonymous hackers arrested in sweep across Europe, South America.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:14pm EST
AP - Millions of children are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living close to them, the United Nations Children's Fund said Tuesday.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:52pm EST
AP - Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality — meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:41pm EST
AP - All three judges on Tuesday pulled out of Egypt's trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, including 16 Americans, according to a court official, throwing into question the case that has ripped U.S.-Egypt relations.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:24pm EST
Reuters - The Egyptian judge handling the trial of dozens of democracy activists, including 16 Americans, accused of illegally receiving funds from abroad, said on Tuesday he would resign, state news agency MENA said.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:21pm EST
AP - Smoke hovered over uniformed students frolicking in a playground Tuesday, hours after assailants set their school ablaze and destroyed another local school, showing how commonplace violence has become in Nigeria's northeast.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:12pm EST
AP - A wounded British photographer who had been trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Homs was spirited safely into Lebanon on Tuesday in a risky journey that killed 13 rebels who helped him escape the relentless shelling and gunfire.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:39pm EST
Reuters - Surgeons removed a lesion from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's pelvis and the socialist leader is in "good physical condition" after the operation, his vice president said on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:38pm EST
Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can be classified as a war criminal, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as the United Nations announced more than 7,500 civilians had been killed by his forces since the start of the revolt.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:37pm EST
AP - Some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will soon have a new, larger soccer field to help keep them occupied during their indefinite detention.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:34pm EST
AP - BANK TARGETED: Barclays PLC revealed that it is the bank targeted by the British Treasury's action to shut down two methods of avoiding tax, a change in the law that could cost the bank up to 500 million pounds ($800 million).
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:58pm EST
Reuters - France's highest legal authority ruled Tuesday that a new law that would have made it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was unconstitutional, a move quickly welcomed by Turkey.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:53pm EST
Reuters - NATO must remain focused on fostering stability in Afghanistan despite the protests and violence that have gripped the country following the burning of copies of the Koran on a NATO military base, the alliance's head said on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:54pm EST
Reuters - U.S. hopes for a quick end to its dispute with Egypt over pro-democracy groups have been put on hold, stranding both countries in a dangerous limbo as pressures build on a security partnership that is vital to Washington.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:47pm EST
Reuters - Iran, facing growing international pressure over its nuclear program, called for more talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Tuesday and condemned production of atomic weapons as a "great sin."
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:40pm EST
Time.com - For years, British explorer William Lindesay's inquiries about a possible extension of the Great Wall in Mongolia turned up nothing, but the researcher recently had a breakthrough
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:40pm EST
Time.com - Even if he can't win, Assad may have reason to believe that he can nonetheless fight to a messy draw
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 10:00am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - High-seas piracy has found another home, in the waters of the Gulf of Guinea on the West African coast. The number of attacks in 2011 far surpassed the total number for 2010, and the pace could increase this year as well, as oil-rich nations of the region increase their production. With global oil supplies tight and the price of oil already rising, the costs of West African piracy will almost certainly be felt at your local fuel pump.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:55am EST
Reuters - Vladimir Putin brushed off a reported plot to kill him as part of his daily burden as Russia's prime minister on Tuesday, burnishing his macho image five days before a presidential election he is likely to win.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:47am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Chancellor Angela Merkel â the driving force behind Europe's often-controversial response to its economic woes â is facing increasing domestic criticism about her eurocrisis management.
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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 5:33pm EST
Reuters - The Conservative government came under increasing pressure on Monday to explain what the opposition said were dirty tricks the Conservatives used during last year's election to cut into the number of votes going to other parties.
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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 3:22pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - As yet another suicide blast strikes yet another church in northern Nigeria, immigration officials have announced that they are cracking down on the flow of foreigners into northern Nigeria who may be adding to the growing numbers of the shadowy Islamist militia Boko Haram.
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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 2:27pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Seven months after the disgraced News of the World (NOTW) newspaper folded, media company News International sought to woo back readers with its debut edition of The Sun on Sunday, a seventh day edition of its daily tabloid.
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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 5:55am EST
AP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard may have survived a challenge from within her own party, but the dissent that forced Monday's vote isn't going away.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:48pm EST
AP - The United States and North Korea headed into a second day of talks Friday on restarting nuclear disarmament in return for aid, negotiations that were delayed by the death of North Korea's longtime leader Kim Jong Il two months ago.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:48pm EST
AP - The United States and North Korea headed into a second day of talks Friday on restarting nuclear disarmament in return for aid, negotiations that were delayed by the death of North Korea's longtime leader Kim Jong Il two months ago.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:45pm EST
AP - For someone who's ill, President Hugo Chavez didn't show it Thursday as he launched into full-blown campaign mode on his last day in Venezuela before flying to Cuba for cancer surgery.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:40pm EST
Reuters - After a third day of bloody protests over the burning of the Koran, there is a sense that America is lurching from one image crisis to the next in Afghanistan, with no clear path for U.S. officials to defuse the latest uproar.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:07pm EST
AP - Medics stitch wounds with thread used for clothing. Hungry residents risk Syrian government sniper fire or shelling to hunt for dwindling supplies of bread and canned food on the streets of the besieged city of Homs.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:07pm EST
AP - Medics stitch wounds with thread used for clothing. Hungry residents risk Syrian government sniper fire or shelling to hunt for dwindling supplies of bread and canned food on the streets of the besieged city of Homs.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:01pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Associated Press reports that the austerity budgets being passed in Europe have done nothing to improve their respective economies. The implication is that deep spending cuts do not work and that these governments should be following a Keynesian plan by spending their way out of debt and recession. It is my opinion that the data does not support this idea and to do the opposite would only accelerate a nation's decline.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:01pm EST
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Associated Press reports that the austerity budgets being passed in Europe have done nothing to improve their respective economies. The implication is that deep spending cuts do not work and that these governments should be following a Keynesian plan by spending their way out of debt and recession. It is my opinion that the data does not support this idea and to do the opposite would only accelerate a nation's decline.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:58pm EST
AP - Argentina's deadliest train accident in decades was foreseeable and preventable, the nation's auditor general complained Thursday, saying years of failed safety tests and other problems had given the government more than enough reason to cancel the train operator's concession.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:51pm EST
Reuters - The United States said on Thursday it was making progress with its African allies in its push against Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), but gave no clear end date for the shadowy U.S. military operation unfolding in central Africa.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:31pm EST
Reuters - In a small room near NATO's sprawling Bagram Airbase, Sayed Jamil fumes as he remembers how three U.S. soldiers ignored the pleas of fellow laborers not to burn dozens of copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:15pm EST
Reuters - Libyan troops intervened to end fighting between rival tribes in the eastern desert on Thursday, a rare example of the government in Tripoli imposing its authority over the fractious country.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:15pm EST
Reuters - Libyan troops intervened to end fighting between rival tribes in the eastern desert on Thursday, a rare example of the government in Tripoli imposing its authority over the fractious country.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:10pm EST
AP - Television actress Lucy Lawless and six Greenpeace activists have climbed an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic to try and stop it from leaving.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:10pm EST
AP - Television actress Lucy Lawless and six Greenpeace activists have climbed an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic to try and stop it from leaving.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:04pm EST
Reuters - Venezuela's ailing socialist president, Hugo Chavez, will fly to Cuba on Friday for an unknown period to undergo new cancer surgery that has shaken the South American nation before an October presidential election.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:58pm EST
Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday he was unaware of allegations his Conservative party had used dirty tricks to suppress votes to help win last year's federal election.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:58pm EST
Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday he was unaware of allegations his Conservative party had used dirty tricks to suppress votes to help win last year's federal election.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:40pm EST
Time.com - Though the Republican presidential hopefuls are still duking it out amongst themselves, it seems the GOP has already thrown down the gauntlet on foreign policy
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:40pm EST
Time.com - In the increasingly bloody assault on Homs, some believe Moscow may be softening its rigid support of the regime -- if only to ease the humanitarian crisis
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:40pm EST
Time.com - In the increasingly bloody assault on Homs, some believe Moscow may be softening its rigid support of the regime -- if only to ease the humanitarian crisis
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:28am EST
AP - India's Home Ministry has told the country's top court that gay sex is "immoral" and "against social order" as it urged the court to keep homosexuality illegal.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:23am EST
Reuters - Thousands of people marched in Moscow under Russian flags, balloons and banners on Thursday to back Vladimir Putin's bid to return to the presidency and counter opposition protests that have challenged his authority.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:19am EST
AP - A former chief executive of construction giant KBR Inc. faced sentencing Thursday for a federal bribery conviction related to the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:03am EST
Reuters - Western and Arab nations will demand that Syrian forces implement an immediate ceasefire to allow relief supplies to reach desperate civilians in bombarded cities such as Homs when they meet in Tunis on Friday.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:59am EST
Reuters - The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Koran at NATO's main base in the country as a third day of violent protests began.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:31am EST
Reuters - Car bombs struck across Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens, in the latest wave of attacks on the Iraqi capital since a political crisis erupted in December, security officials said.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:31am EST
AP - A swift series of bombings and shootings killed 35 people across the Iraqi capital early Thursday in attacks that mostly appeared to target police, officials said.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:17am EST
AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeback by Kevin Rudd, the colleague she ousted in a Labor Party coup nearly two years ago.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:35am EST
Time.com - In the face of continuing bloodshed in their homeland, one anti-Assad group courts the regime's allies in the Syrian business community and Moscow. Is it all in vain?
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:35am EST
Time.com - A celebrated American-born war reporter and a young French photographer were killed on Wednesday morning when Syrian forces bombed a makeshift media center in the besieged city of Homs
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:01am EST
Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, sending oil prices to a nine-month high over fears of an increasing risk of confrontation with the West.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:51am EST
AP - A police spokesman in Haiti says one person has been killed and 120 others revelers have been injured in accidents and in street clashes during Carnival festivities.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:13pm EST
AP - The Swedish Royal Court says Crown Princess Victoria has been admitted to a hospital for the birth of her first child, who would be a future heir to the throne.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 5:59pm EST
Reuters - Air Canada's 8,600 mechanics, baggage handlers and cargo agents have rejected a tentative contract agreement with the country's biggest airline, a union spokesman said on Wednesday, marking another setback for the carrier during a year of rocky labor relations.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 4:20pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - London is considered the most spied-on city in the world, courtesy of its ubiquitous CCTV cameras, purportedly there to reduce crime. But according to a recent report, there's been little or no change in London's crime rates since they were more widely installed in the mid 1980s.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 4:09pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - After four days of daily protests, some violently dispersed, Spain is bracing for a cycle of social unrest against the harshest austerity measures in decades. At stake is not only Spainâs economic recovery, but that of the European Union.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:02am EST
AP - A fake news report placing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the dock has become an online hit, getting nearly 3 million views in just three days.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 7:02am EST
AP - An anti-piracy watchdog says the French navy, rather than Nigerian authorities, had to help a cargo ship attacked by pirates that saw two crew members killed.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:55am EST
AP - The presidents of Afghanistan and Iran convened in Pakistan on Thursday for a three-way summit that is expected to focus on specific steps Islamabad can take to facilitate peace talks with the Afghan Taliban.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:53am EST
AP - A senior al-Qaida leader in Yemen was killed in a family feud Thursday and an ensuing gunbattle between his followers and opponents left 16 other militants dead, a security official and tribal elders said.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:53am EST
Reuters - Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's state firms to clean up their act, but without fundamental reforms he may only scratch the surface of endemic graft and conflicts of interest that tar the country's bloated national champions.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:34am EST
Reuters - Afghanistan's government must not retreat from hard-won freedoms or return to strict religious curbs to reach a peace deal with the Taliban, the country's former spy chief said, warning Afghans were distrustful of the secrecy surrounding nascent talks.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 5:26am EST
Reuters - The U.S. and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Wall Street Journal, in a move that could bolster U.S.-led efforts to convene fully fledged peace talks within months.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 2:59am EST
Reuters - Syrian troops attacked Deraa on Thursday to try to stamp out rebels in the border city where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule began last March, residents and opposition activists said.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 2:35am EST
Time.com - Children are dying in camps for displaced people but the situation augurs graver and more expensive problems for the Karzai government
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 2:35am EST
Time.com - The nuclear advances announced Wednesday by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are a prelude to an expected new round of talks between Tehran and Western powers
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 2:20am EST
AP - Ecuador's highest court upheld early Thursday a criminal libel verdict favoring President Rafael Correa, sentencing three newspaper executives and a columnist to three years in prison each and ordering them to pay a total of $42 million in damages.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:35pm EST
Reuters - Iran proclaimed advances in nuclear know-how, including new centrifuges able to enrich uranium much faster, a move that may heighten its confrontation with the West over suspicions it is seeking the means to make atomic bombs.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 4:22pm EST
Reuters - Several farmer organizations that support the Canadian Wheat Board's grain marketing monopoly are launching a court action aimed at restoring farmer control of the board and collecting C$17 billion ($17 billion) in damages for farmers.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 1:17pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - About three hours south of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, lays a sprawling, 120,000-hectare field planted with hundreds of thousands of grape vines in tightly packed rows. Workers in blue coveralls cultivate the vines, looking for pesky diseases, while men stand atop ladders with slingshots in tow to fend off hungry birds.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 11:46am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - As Ugandaâs parliament begins discussions once more on an antihomosexuality bill, the Ugandan minister of ethics has accompanied police to shut down a workshop in Entebbe for gay rights activists and to arrest its organizer.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:52am EST
AP - Some eurozone countries have strong doubts over whether a second massive bailout can actually save Greece, officials said Wednesday, even as Athens rushed to meet tough conditions to qualify for the euro130 billion ($170 billion) rescue.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:25am EST
AP - Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered a referendum for later this month on a new constitution that would allow political parties other than his ruling Baath Party, the centerpiece of reforms he has promised to ease the crisis, even as the Syrian military on Wednesday besieged rebellious areas.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:22am EST
AP - Sri Lankan police fired on fishermen protesting a fuel price increase Wednesday, killing one person and wounding three, a witness and a doctor said.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:29am EST
AP - Officials say gunmen wearing military uniforms have killed the wife and two children of an Iraqi policeman in an attack on his home south of Baghdad.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:23am EST
AP - Israeli officials ramped up accusations Wednesday that Iran was launching covert attack plots, saying "sticky" bombs found in a Thai house rented by Iranians were similar to devices used against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:16am EST
AP - Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said Wednesday.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:14am EST
Reuters - Iran trumpeted advances in nuclear technology on Wednesday, citing new uranium enrichment centrifuges and domestically made reactor fuel, in a move abetting a drift towards confrontation with the West over its disputed atomic ambitions.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:10am EST
Reuters - A massive fire swept through an overcrowded prison in Honduras and killed more than 350 inmates, including many trapped inside their cells, officials said on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:06am EST
AP - Italy's national statistics agency confirmed Wednesday that the eurozone's third-largest economy had slid into recession thanks to a drop in industrial activity and a stagnant service sector.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:04am EST
Reuters - Thai investigators believe they have found a link between this week's bomb blasts in Bangkok and New Delhi, a senior security official said Wednesday, two of three attacks Israel has blamed on Iran.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:38am EST
AP - Almost half a billion children are at risk of permanent damage over the next 15 years because of chronic malnutrition, a report released Wednesday said, despite advances against hunger around the world.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:25am EST
Time.com - The Ministry of Civil Affairs will amend its regulations to ensure that names commonly ascribed to parentless children, like Dang and Guo ("Party" and "State") will not be ascribed to orphans
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:25am EST
Time.com - A day after a series of blasts rocked Thailand's capital, the country's leaders feverishly sought to dispel any notion the incident was part of a terrorist plot
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:50am EST
Time.com - Less than a week after leading the Knicks to a five-game winning streak, Jeremy Lin is the most searched item on Baidu, a leading Chinese search engine
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:50am EST
Time.com - As the war with the regime's better-armed military gets hotter, the insurgents are taking to guerrilla methods tried out in other recent wars
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:21am EST
Reuters - Syrian government forces attacked the opposition strongholds of Homs and Hama on Wednesday and also raided a district of Damascus in the closest military operation to the capital's centre since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad broke out 11 months ago.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 2:09am EST
Reuters - The son of one of the greatest defenders of Canadian unity, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has stirred up a hornets' nest by speculating about backing Quebec separatism if the country moves too far right.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 2:02am EST
Reuters - Egypt's first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown a year ago will be held by late May, Wednesday's state newspaper al-Ahram quoted a government minister as saying.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 1:07am EST
AP - The international community must rule out military intervention as a solution to the Syrian crisis, the leader of a global Islamic group said Wednesday.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 3:51pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - India's rise looks to be on the skids for now.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 2:06pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia's falling population poses a dire threat to the country's existence, which he will reverse with sweeping new social policies if he's elected to a third presidential term in polls that are now less than three weeks off.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:31am EST
AP - The Maldives' national museum reopened Tuesday without some of its most valuable exhibits a week after a mob of suspected religious extremists smashed images from the pre-Islamic era of this Indian Ocean archipelago.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:25am EST
AP - The top U.S. Catholic bishop vowed legislative and court challenges Tuesday to a compromise by President Barack Obama to his healthcare mandate that now exempts religiously affiliated institutions from paying directly for birth control for their workers, instead making insurance companies responsible.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:24am EST
AP - The International Organization for Migration says Sudan and South Sudan have signed a deal allowing half a million South Sudanese to choose where they want to live.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:23am EST
AP - Cabinet minister says Israel will settle the score with Bangkok attackers.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:02am EST
Reuters - Canadian Labour Minister Lisa Raitt's offer of mediation in talks between Air Canada and its pilots' union does not preclude a strike or a lockout, ministerial spokeswoman Ashley Kelahear said on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:02am EST
Reuters - Prosecutors in the trial of American student Amanda Knox, who was cleared last October of the 2007 murder of British housemate Meredith Kercher, filed a motion Tuesday to appeal against the verdict before Italy's highest court.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:53am EST
Reuters - Syrian government forces attacked opponents of President Bashar al-Assad in cities and towns across the country on Tuesday and Arab officials confirmed that regional governments would be ready to arm the resistance if the bloodshed did not cease.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:22am EST
Reuters - From new homes in slums to cash for struggling mothers, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is unleashing a flood of state spending to try to tip the balance in what looks like the toughest presidential election of his political career.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:44am EST
Reuters - Egyptian state-run newspapers escalated a dispute with the United States over an inquiry into civil society groups on Tuesday by splashing across their front pages accusations of an American plan to spread "anarchy" in the Arab country.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:52am EST
Reuters - After a bruising meeting in a five-star Cairo hotel, Arab foreign ministers led by Gulf states hinted to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that unless he halts his violent crackdown, some Arab League members might arm his opponents.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:10am EST
Time.com - In January, China's Vice President Xi Jinping helmed a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of U.S. President Richard Nixon's landmark trip to China
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:10am EST
Time.com - As Arab and Western diplomats work to fashion tools to pressure the Syrian regime to end its military response to a year-old rebellion, an unrelenting artillery exacts a daily toll on the residents of rebel-held Sunni neighborhoods of the city of Homs
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 12:03am EST
AP - The U.N. Security Council began a four-day mission in Haiti on Monday to review the terms of its mandate and evaluate earthquake reconstruction efforts in the Caribbean country.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:16pm EST
AP - A Sydney man has been fined 750 Australian dollars ($800) for mooning Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, during a royal visit to Australia.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 4:54pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - The famed Rupert Murdoch tabloid scandal-mills are grinding yet again.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 4:41pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Tens of thousands of Germans have protested against ACTA, a controversial international anti-piracy agreement that has embroiled Germany's politicians in a heated debate on whether the treaty is a useful tool to protect intellectual property or an infringement of personal freedom.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:56pm EST
AP - The U.S. Navy is trying to find a buyer for more than 2,000 acres overlooking the Caribbean in Puerto Rico.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:39pm EST
AP - Tunisia's interior minister says an armed group that has clashed with Tunisian forces in the south of the country has links to al-Qaida.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:36pm EST
Reuters - A long, standing ovation greeted Italy's Mario Monti when he entered the packed Card Room on the seventh floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:34pm EST
Reuters - Greek political leaders say the nation must accept yet more punishing austerity or face a social explosion, but after a night of violence and destruction in Athens, some people fear this explosion may already be about to begin.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:15pm EST
Time.com - With the indictment of Yousaf Gilani, the major branches of the Pakistani establishment are more than ever at each other's throats.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 2:13pm EST
AP - The United Nations on Monday backed Maldives' new leader's proposal for a national unity government though the ousted leader is calling for a snap poll to resolve a political crisis.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:05pm EST
Reuters - Air Canada said on Monday that contract talks with its 3,000 pilots are scheduled to continue this week, adding it is confident it can avoid a labor disruption, which could come as early as Friday morning.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:21pm EST
Reuters - Dozens of protesters against economic inequality were effectively told they could remain camped outside London's landmark St Paul's Cathedral for another nine days while a judge decides whether to listen to their appeal against eviction.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:19pm EST
AP - A former senior British police officer was sentenced to jail on corruption charges Monday for falsely arresting a business rival over a financial dispute.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:14pm EST
AP - The State Department says a U.S. envoy will hold talks with North Korea on its nuclear program in Beijing next week.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:13pm EST
AP - With an escort of jet fighters screaming above and tens of thousands of screaming fans on the ground, Zambia's victorious soccer team flew home Monday to a hero's welcome.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:08pm EST
Reuters - Western states hope new oil sanctions will deter Tehran from pursuing its disputed nuclear program but ultimately it will be China, India and other Asian powers that determine their effectiveness impact on already volatile Iranian politics.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:57am EST
AP - Israeli settlers from an unauthorized West Bank outpost said Monday they have accepted an offer from the government to stay put for two more years, despite Israeli Supreme Court orders to evacuate them next month.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:54am EST
AP - The U.S. State Department is sending to Haiti a team of legal experts to look at ways to strengthen the Caribbean nation's beleaguered judiciary, Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said Monday.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:51am EST
Reuters - Canada stepped up pressure on Washington on Monday to rewrite its controversial Volcker rule to remove restrictions on Canadian bank activities that it says do not threaten the U.S. financial system.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:07am EST
Reuters - The U.N. human rights chief blamed disagreement in the Security Council on Monday for encouraging the Syrian government to step up attacks on opposition strongholds in its campaign to crush an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year rule.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:57am EST
Reuters - Israel accused arch-enemies Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind twin bomb attacks that targeted embassy staff in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:40am EST
Reuters - A top U.S. lawman hired by Bahrain to help clean up its security practices after revelations of torture used to help crush a protest movement last year said the government was serious about reforms and but youth violence was posing obstacles.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:36am EST
Reuters - Europe gave Greece until Wednesday to convince skeptical international creditors that it would stick to the punishing terms of a multi-billion-euro rescue package, endorsed by parliament as rioters torched downtown Athens.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:35am EST
Time.com - As the streets of Athens explode in anger, Parliament passes the austerity measures that diminish the standard of living. But is there any other choice?
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:35am EST
Time.com - As the regime continues to bash the insurrection within Syria's borders, rebels sneak back and forth from Turkey to try to figure out what to do next
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 6:06am EST
AP - Two bills to allow gay marriages in Australia were introduced in Parliament on Monday but may fail because of political conflicts.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 4:46pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called for the ouster of Syria's "pernicious, cancerous regime," raising fears that Islamist militants will try to exploit an uprising against President Bashar Assad that began with peaceful calls for democratic change but is morphing into a bloody, armed insurgency.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 3:56pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Rioting spread across central Athens and at least seven buildings went up in flames amid protests late Sunday as lawmakers debated cutting spending and eliminating government jobs to win an international bailout and remain in the eurozone.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 2:10pm EST
Reuters - Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Azeri ambassador on Sunday, accusing Azerbaijan of assisting Israeli intelligence in the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist blown up last month, Iran's Fars news agency reported.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 2:05pm EST
Reuters - The Arab League threw its support on Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:55pm EST
AP - Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:45pm EST
AP - The top U.S. Navy official in the Persian Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran's military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:45pm EST
Reuters - Egypt's military ruler stressed the importance of good ties with the United States in a meeting with the government on Sunday, a message that could signal an attempt to ease a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:36pm EST
Reuters - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed and his finance minister seriously injured in an airplane crash near the eastern town of Bukavu on Sunday, officials said.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:30pm EST
Reuters - Black-masked protesters throwing petrol bombs created a wall of fire on Sunday outside Greece's parliament as lawmakers inside looked set defy public rage by endorsing a new austerity deal to secure an EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:28pm EST
AP - Venezuelans lined up to vote on Sunday in the country's first-ever opposition presidential primary, choosing a single challenger they hope will have what it takes to finally defeat President Hugo Chavez after 13 years in office.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 11:35am EST
Reuters - The most important leader of Peru's leftist Shining Path insurgency has been found dead by security forces after being shot in a remote jungle rife with drug trafficking, President Ollanta Humala said on Sunday in his first major victory against what remains of the rebel group.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 8:09am EST
Reuters - Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, in an interview broadcast on Saturday, said corruption charges against Pakistan's president were "politically motivated" and that the president had immunity as head of state.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:05am EST
Time.com - As the regime continues to bash the insurrection within Syria's borders, rebels sneak back-and-forth from Turkey to try to figure on what to do next
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:05am EST
Time.com - In Europe, budget tightening has forced governments to cut back on green-energy projects. Can the solar and wind industries survive without hefty subsidies?
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 3:46pm EST
AP - A group of political dissidents created a new Iraqi opposition party Saturday, vowing to act as a check on the government as the prime minister warned that a push for regional autonomy could tear the country apart.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 3:43pm EST
AP - Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have asked a court to dismiss their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 2:49pm EST
Reuters - British police on Saturday arrested five senior staff at News Corporation's mass-circulation newspaper The Sun as part of investigations into journalists paying police for information.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 2:09pm EST
Reuters - Turkey's state prosecution service has removed a prosecutor responsible for summoning the head of the spy agency from the case, state media said on Saturday, in an apparent attempt to resolve a row between the government and the judiciary.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 1:52pm EST
AP - Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina says he will propose legalizing drugs in Central America in an upcoming meeting with the region's leaders.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 1:17pm EST
Reuters - New Maldives President Mohamed Waheed Hussain Manik said on Saturday he was open to an inquiry into how he took office after his predecessor said he had been forced out in a coup.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 11:53am EST
Reuters - Egypt marked the first anniversary of the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, but a poor turnout for a strike called by activists to protest the slow pace of change from military rule laid bare the country's deep divisions.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 11:04am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Despite freezing conditions across much of the Continent, thousands are expected to the streets of European cities today â but the protests aren't about austerity measures, bailouts, or the Middle East. They are about an obscure international copyright agreement that protesters say threatens free speech online and the future of the Internet.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 9:50am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - As news organizations worldwide wonder if they can charge for content that readers are accustomed to getting free of charge, two Eastern European countries have pioneered a new model: erecting national paywalls and charging a monthly fee for access to most of their newspapers.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 9:43am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus on Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March, the state-run news agency said.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 8:10am EST
AP - The Pakistani army has started court martial proceedings against five officers over suspected ties to a banned extremist group that has called for ousting the U.S.-backed government, security officials said Saturday.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 8:06am EST
Reuters - Greek leaders told a growing band of rebellious lawmakers Saturday to back a deeply unpopular EU/IMF rescue in parliament or send the nation down "an unknown, dangerous path" to default, international economic isolation and a deeply devalued drachma.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 8:05am EST
AP - Five staff at Britain's largest selling tabloid The Sun were arrested Saturday along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defense officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:50am EST
AP - Authorities say two explosions, including a car bomb, struck a northeast Nigerian city, wounding two soldiers.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:43am EST
AP - Libya has asked Niger to hand over one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons living under house arrest in the neighboring African nation after he warned his homeland was facing a new uprising.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:17am EST
Reuters - Syrian forces bombarded districts of Homs city on Saturday in a campaign to crush a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, whose ally Russia said it would not support an Arab peace plan circulating at the United Nations.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 6:45am EST
Reuters - Two Western aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan in January are being held by the Pakistan Taliban near the border with Afghanistan, a senior militant commander told Reuters on Saturday.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 6:43am EST
Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that the Islamic Republic, targeted by tougher Western sanctions, would soon announce advances in its nuclear program.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 12:35am EST
Time.com - In Europe, budget tightening has forced governments to cut back on green-energy projects. Can the solar and wind industries survive without hefty subsidies?
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 11:42pm EST
Reuters - Mexican drug cartels paid $4.5 million in bribes to buy protection and political favors in a state run by the country's main opposition party, U.S. court documents said on Friday, as the party leads polls to win the presidency in July.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 9:41pm EST
AP - U.S. drug agents have evidence that cartel leaders paid millions to a Mexican border state governor and other figures in Mexico's former ruling party in exchange for political influence, according to a court filing in Texas.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:00pm EST
Time.com - In Europe, budget tightening has forced governments to cut back on green-energy projects. Can the solar and wind industries survive without hefty subsidies?
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:00pm EST
Time.com - Some Greeks speak fondly of the old currency, but almost everyone knows that a return to it would mean immediate poverty -- and the resurrection of a venal kind of politics
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:52pm EST
Reuters - Changes to Canada's Old Age Security pension program will likely come in 2020 or beyond and will involve more than one federal budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 10:15am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Aid workers may be an idealistic sort, but they're not naive. They know the risks of crossing oceans or pressing through to remote areas to build tent cities, run feeding stations, or treat the sick in what are by definition the most dangerous and least hospitable corners of the planet.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 8:22am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - A growing number of US officials are warning that Egyptâs insistence on prosecuting at least 16 Americans in a crackdown on pro-democracy organizations will have drastic consequences.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 3:08am EST
AP - A top U.N. official was meeting Friday with the current and former presidents of the Maldives, trying to end the political stalemate that has gripped this Indian Ocean nation.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:59am EST
AP - A candidate who claims victory in the presidential election in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia has been hospitalized after a police raid on her headquarters.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:56am EST
Reuters - Indonesia would study any approach by Iran to trade by barter but has not received any such overtures from the country, trade minister Gita Wirjawan said on Friday. Western financial sanctions have hurt Iran's ability to pay for imported food.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:50am EST
AP - Syria's state-run TV reports two explosions in northern city of Aleppo, no word on casualties.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:47am EST
Reuters - Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected the prime minister's appeal against summons in a contempt case on Friday and is set to charge him on Monday, a move likely to bring fresh political turmoil to the chronically unstable country.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:03am EST
AP - Unmollified by legislative approval of a big pay raise, Rio state police officers went on strike Friday, raising fears for the security of the glittering Carnival extravaganza that sets this seaside city throbbing.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:55am EST
Time.com - One of the world's top crusaders against human-rights violations has been banned from the bench for 11 years. And his legal troubles aren't over
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:55am EST
Time.com - One famine -- Somalia's -- may be officially over but in the vast stretch of the Sahel, millions of people face drought and famine. It can still be avoided
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:54am EST
Reuters - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Friday nationalizing mines was not the policy of his African National Congress (ANC)government, as he sought to lay to rest speculation over government intentions for the mining industry.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:35am EST
Reuters - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands left dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami nearly one year ago.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:12pm EST
Reuters - Tanks amassed outside opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Friday as Alawite-led forces bombarded the Syrian city for the fifth day and residents expected a major push to subdue the centre of revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:20pm EST
Reuters - The Canadian province of Alberta, the largest oil exporter to the United States, said on Thursday it expects to post a smaller budget deficit in the upcoming fiscal year as economic growth boosts revenue from taxes.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:22pm EST
Reuters - Struggling with higher fuel and maintenance costs, Air Canada reported a bigger than expected quarterly loss on Thursday, disappointing investors in the wake of strong performances from fellow Canadian and U.S. airlines.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:27pm EST
AP - Between blasts of rockets and mortar fire, Syrians used loudspeakers to call for blood donations and medical supplies Thursday in the stricken city of Homs, where a weeklong government offensive has created a deepening humanitarian crisis.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:01pm EST
AP - Colombia's chief prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the peace commissioner of ex-President Alvaro Uribe for allegedly arranging a bogus demobilization of leftist guerrillas.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:00pm EST
AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday claimed that an airstrike carried out by the international coalition killed eight children in eastern Afghanistan.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:53pm EST
Reuters - Insurers stung by multi-million dollar claims over the Concordia shipwreck will demand higher safety standards from the cruise industry, a lawyer who will file suits this month against Carnival Corp for more than 70 plaintiffs said on Thursday.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:51pm EST
AP - An attempt to protect a rhinoceros from poachers in South Africa by sedating it to treat its horn ended with the animal's death Thursday in front of journalists and others who had been invited to learn more about anti-poaching efforts, conservationists said.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:43pm EST
Reuters - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai accused NATO on Thursday of killing a number of children in an airstrike, a case which could stoke tensions between the government and its western backers over a mounting civilian death doll.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:40am EST
Time.com - "Operation Finale: The Story of the Capture of Eichmann" is a museum exhibit that chronicles the secret Mossad operation that stalked and captured Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann from his refuge in Buenos Aires, and smuggled him to Israel to stand trial
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:12am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Greek leaders have clinched a last-minute deal demanded by international lenders in exchange for a bailout that would prevent the country from defaulting on its sovereign debt.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:52am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - The triple meltdown at Japanâs Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last March unleashed the largest wave of public protest the country, not known for its activism, has seen in decades.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:27am EST
Reuters - Air Canada will have to improve its performance now that rival WestJet Airlines Ltd is moving into the regional market, the carrier's chief operating officer told Reuters on Thursday.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:25am EST
AP - A Maldives court issued an arrest warrant Thursday for former President Mohamed Nasheed, one day after his supporters rampaged in the capital and his claim of being ousted by a coup left unclear the stability of the fledging Indian Ocean democracy.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:20am EST
AP - Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has "exhausted" his potential as Russia's leader and his inability to change the Kremlin's political system might prompt more massive anti-government protests.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:20am EST
Reuters - offering gold bullion in overseas vaults or tankerloads of oil - in return for food as new financial sanctions have hurt its ability to import basic staples for its 74 million people, commodities traders said Thursday.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:49am EST
AP - A Jordanian prosecutor says he has ordered a powerful former intelligence chief to be detained for 14 days pending a probe on charges of embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and abuse of office.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:41am EST
Reuters - The second U.S. drone attack in two days in Pakistan's North Waziristan region killed five people on Thursday, including a senior militant commander with links to al Qaeda, Pakistani intelligence officials and Taliban sources said.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:04am EST
AP - Striking police officers in the northeastern city of Salvador on Thursday evacuated the state legislative building they occupied in protest for more than a week.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:37am EST
Reuters - The United States is seeking more access to Philippines ports and airfields to re-fuel and service its warships and planes, diplomatic and military sources said on Thursday, expanding its presence at a time of tension with China in the South China Sea.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:58am EST
AP - A trial on terrorism charges has been scheduled to start Monday for an Indonesian man accused of making the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:58am EST
AP - In a high-stakes gamble, an imprisoned member of a Palestinian militant group has waged a hunger strike for almost two months, trying to draw attention to Israel's military justice system and its treatment of detainees who can be held without charge for lengthy periods.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:57am EST
AP - A one-time tax hit sent profits at drinks company Diageo PLC's down 20 percent in the last six months of 2011, despite rising income following a strong performance in emerging markets.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:53am EST
Reuters - Maldives ex-president Mohamed Nasheed awaited arrest in his house on Thursday, vowing to stay and fight against the government he says ousted him in a coup with the connivance of the police and the military.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:44am EST
AP - The Malian government says that its forces have left the town of Tin-n-Zaouatene after repeated attacks from Tuareg rebels.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:55am EST
Time.com - "Operation Finale: The Story of the Capture of Eichmann" is a museum exhibit that chronicles the secret Mossad operation that stalked and captured Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann from his refuge in Buenos Aires, and smuggled him to Israel to stand trial
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:55am EST
Time.com - As the diplomatic uproar continues over the arrests and likely trials, the question of U.S. financial support for Cairo may come into play
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:33am EST
Reuters - Indian tea exports to Iran are facing payment hurdles, the trade secretary said on Thursday, the latest sign that Western sanctions are biting the Islamic Republic which is struggling to pay to keep its trade flowing.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:30am EST
Time.com - Beneath the vivid spectacle, the annual rite has a quiet and even tender meaning as a demonstration of love and loyalty, especially among men not ordinarily inclined to displays of emotion
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 2:30am EST
Time.com - The reason that there's no plausible end-game in Syria anytime soon is that the Assad regime is fighting a very different war to the one envisaged by many of its opponents.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:59am EST
AP - A reality television producer has arrived in Mexico escorted by nearly a dozen agents after being extradited from the U.S. so he can face trial in his wife's killing.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:55am EST
Reuters - Canada's Enbridge Inc will not offer better financial terms to aboriginal bands standing in the way of a major oil pipeline from energy-rich Alberta to the Pacific Coast, the firm's chief executive officer said on Thursday.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:42am EST
Reuters - The European Union will ask for India's help in convincing Iran to abandon its nuclear program and return to the negotiating table, EU President Herman Van Rompuy said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:58pm EST
AP - A six-story building that collapsed and killed 115 people in last year's New Zealand earthquake was made of weak columns and concrete and did not meet standards when it was built, the government said Thursday.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:39pm EST
Reuters - Syrian government artillery barrages killed dozens of civilians in Homs on Thursday, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by Russian support, ignored appeals from world leaders to halt the carnage.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 4:40pm EST
Reuters - Egypt's ruling generals said Wednesday they would deploy more soldiers and tanks across the country, an announcement seen as a warning to activists planning a national strike on the anniversary of the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:12pm EST
AP - RISING ABOVE: Nissan's quarterly profit rose 3.2 percent on healthier sales that offset production damage from flooding in Thailand and a battering from the strong yen.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:03pm EST
AP - GROUNDED: Air France canceled up to 40 percent of its long-distance flights Wednesday because of a strike by pilots and other personnel over their right to hold unannounced walkouts.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:32pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Russian diplomacy can offer an alternative path to civil peace in Syria, if only the West will give it a chance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednedsday after a visit to Damascus in which he met with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:30pm EST
AP - Thousands of elderly Kenyans are preparing to sue the British government over abuses — including torture, illegal detentions and rape — its forces allegedly committed during its suppression of a 1950s anti-colonial rebellion, a lawyer representing the group said Wednesday.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:24pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Two Egyptian judges laid out their case today against 43 foreign NGO workers, including at least 16 Americans, saying the civil society organizations they worked for were trying to influence politics in Egypt and deliberately worked illegally in the country.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:14pm EST
AP - A lawyer for five Cuban agents convicted of espionage and sentenced to long jail terms in the U.S. says there could be a political solution linking his clients' fate with that of an American contractor imprisoned in Cuba.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:32am EST
Reuters - The Canadian population grew by 5.9 percent over five years to 33.5 million people in 2011, the fastest growth rate in the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations, the country's five-year census revealed on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:04am EST
Reuters - A few weeks ago, a leading opposition activist sat down in a downtown Khartoum office to talk to a journalist. The young man immediately removed the battery from his cellphone.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:44am EST
AP - China's government promised Wednesday to raise minimum wages by 13 percent a year through 2015 and to launch measures to generate 45 million new jobs.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:42am EST
Reuters - More evidence emerged on Tuesday of the crippling impact of new sanctions on Iran, with international traders saying Tehran is having trouble buying rice, cooking oil and other staples to feed its 74 million people weeks before an election.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:34am EST
AP - Authorities say five prison guards have been detained on suspicion of helping two dangerous inmates, including one who was involved in the assassination of the prime minister, organize an attempted escape that was thwarted by police.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:34am EST
AP - Japan and the United States agreed Wednesday to proceed with plans to transfer thousands of U.S. troops out of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving behind the stalled discussion about closing a major U.S. Marine base there.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:30am EST
AP - An international watchdog says authorities have shut down a long-standing press center in Nigeria's busiest airport.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:08am EST
AP - A senior EU official say the bloc will soon impose harsher sanctions against Syria as it seeks to weaken the regime and end President Bashar Assad's crackdown against political opponents.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:15am EST
Time.com - The government of Michel Martelly -- friend of Sean Penn and other U.S. celebrities -- has decided not to pursue the ex-dictator-for-life for crimes against humanity -- just corruption
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 4:30am EST
Reuters - Japan and the United States agreed on Wednesday to decouple the transfer of thousands of U.S. Marines to Guam from the southern Japan island of Okinawa from plans to relocate a base on Okinawa, a step forward in resolving an irritant in relations.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:50am EST
AP - Disgruntled police across Brazil are taking aim at the country's iconic Carnival celebration, raising threats to the annual street parties that draw hordes of foreigners as a way to press their demands for pay raises.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:36am EST
Reuters - NATO, Afghan and Pakistani military officials will hold talks on improving border security and coordination on Wednesday, in a possible sign that tension is easing following a cross-border NATO air attack in November that infuriated Pakistan.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:40am EST
AP - Residents in India's largest state began voting Wednesday in a monthlong local election with repercussions for the whole nation.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:25am EST
Time.com - Will the Brazilian megacity's crumbling infrastructure spoil the World Cup and the Olympics?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:25am EST
Time.com - Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his "messaging" right on Iran
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:20am EST
Reuters - Egyptians must overcome economic and political differences to unite and put the country on the path to democracy and away from military rule, former presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei said Wednesday.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:50am EST
Reuters - The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean islands, said on Wednesday he had been forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between police and angry supporters.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:43am EST
AP - Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:48pm EST
Reuters - Two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were shot and wounded in the western province of Alberta, the national police force said on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:23pm EST
Reuters - Syrian forces thrust into the rebellious city of Homs on Wednesday, killing as many as 100 civilians by the accounts of opposition activists, and Turkey appeared to be preparing a new diplomatic push against President Bashar al-Assad.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:05pm EST
AP - Mexican teens can't solve long-multiplication problems. Education authorities don't know how many teachers work in Mexico. Teachers often miss class, and some who do show up have long conversations on their cellphones.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:36pm EST
AP - Australia's Qantas Airways says it has temporarily grounded one of its A380 superjumbos after discovering dozens of hairline cracks in its wings.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:23pm EST
AP - Egypt's state news agency says the military has deployed troops to the country's streets to reinforce the police, restore security and state "prestige."
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:54pm EST
AP - The top opposition presidential candidate is accusing Sierra Leone's ruling party of provoking violence ahead of November polls.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:12pm EST
Reuters - The 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Tuesday was met with little fanfare on the island, where Cubans said it was a failed policy that had succeeded only in making their lives more difficult.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:20pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - A German chancellor stumping for a standing French president is not something the French have seen before.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:10pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador signaled today his intention to appeal the doping conviction handed down yesterday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after a grueling 18-month legal battle.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:44am EST
AP - Twenty-nine Chinese workers abducted by rebels in Sudan more than a week ago have been released and were boarding a Red Cross plane to leave rebel territory Tuesday, state media said.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:41am EST
Reuters - Sudanese rebel forces released 29 Chinese workers kidnapped ten days ago in the main oil-producing state of South Kordofan, where the army has been fighting insurgents for seven months, Sudan's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:40am EST
Reuters - Russia's foreign minister said he told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday that Moscow wanted to see peace in the Arab world as Syrian forces resumed a bombardment of Homs, a hub of protest and rebellion against Assad's rule.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:39am EST
AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged to cut traffic privileges for officials, who routinely bypass Moscow's notorious traffic jams by ignoring basic rules of the road and even driving into oncoming lanes.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:39am EST
AP - Striking police officers in Brazil's third-largest city are refusing to leave a legislature building they've occupied for a week.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:20am EST
Reuters - Iran castigated its U.S. adversary on Tuesday over new financial measures to disrupt Iranian commerce, and a default on payment for rice purchases highlighted the encroachment of sanctions on the staples of everyday life.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:15am EST
AP - Iran's parliament on Tuesday decided to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:04am EST
Reuters - Iranian buyers have defaulted on payments for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from their top supplier India, exporters and rice millers said on Tuesday, a sign of the mounting pressure on Tehran from a new wave of Western sanctions.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:55am EST
Reuters - President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the hideaway resort islands, resigned on Tuesday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny and what an aide said amounted to a coup.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:10am EST
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Canadian unit will invest more than $750 million in 73 projects in the next twelve months, as the world's biggest retailer moves aggressively to stay ahead of competitors such as Target Corp.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:30am EST
Time.com - Nobody likely envies the challenge President Barack Obama faces getting his "messaging" right on Iran
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:30am EST
Time.com - Faced with austerity, debt and the potential return to the drachma, the Greeks have nothing but bleakness in their immediate future
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:07am EST
Reuters - Three decades ago, an Israeli prime minister faced his cabinet and invoked the Holocaust in an emotional appeal to approve an air strike against an Arab atomic reactor.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:03am EST
Reuters - Australia's projections for a bumper cotton crop remain on track despite a week-long deluge in major growing regions that forced thousands of residents from their homes and left rivers dangerously swollen.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:20pm EST
Reuters - Stocks closed slightly lower on Monday as lingering questions about Europe's debt crisis and corporate earnings overshadowed growing optimism about economic growth after a five-week rally.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:20pm EST
Reuters - Dominican officials were investigating the capsizing of an overloaded immigrant smuggling boat that killed 18 people and rescue teams were searching on Monday for 20 or more people missing off the Dominican Republic coast, authorities said.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:41pm EST
AP - Doctors in Panama say former dictator Manuel Noriega is "stable" after being hospitalized for extreme hypertension.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:31pm EST
AP - As China's future president makes plans for a trip to the United States next week, he has made sure that there's time between stops in Washington and California to visit Iowa.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:30pm EST
Time.com - Even as the Free Syrian Army is establishing an identity in the conflict, another organization announces its presence in the opposition pantheon
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:30pm EST
Time.com - Hamas vows to give Palestinian moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas the running room to see what talks can produce
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:20pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - The eight candidates came in convoys from their respective corners of Dakar to Obelisk Square in the heart of the Senegalese capital, where crowds of color-coordinated supporters awaited them while listening to political hip-hop anthems in Wolof - the local dialect. A single microphone stood on stage and each of them were introduced as "president" before they took it.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:15pm EST
Reuters - The White House said on Monday that an Egyptian crackdown on pro-democracy non-governmental groups that has enmeshed a number of U.S. citizens could threaten the country's $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:51pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Russia and Chinaâs joint veto of a United Nations resolution urging Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to step down has kicked up a firestorm of criticism from the West and from human rights activists.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:51pm EST
Reuters - Rio Tinto's lockout of workers at its Alcan division's big Alma aluminum smelter in northern Quebec looks set to drag on, and the company said on Monday that no talks were scheduled.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:14pm EST
Reuters - Survivors and relatives of those killed in a Norwegian mass-murder rampage wept and ridiculed the smiling attacker in court Monday as he defended his acts by issuing a tirade against immigration.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:01pm EST
Reuters - After two days of rare and intensive talks in Tehran, senior U.N. nuclear officials may have felt they were finally making headway towards getting Iran to address suspicions that it is bent on developing the ability to make atom bombs.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:54am EST
AP - The U.S. closed its Syrian embassy and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus Monday in a dramatic new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power as diplomatic efforts to resolve one of the deadliest conflicts of the Arab Spring collapsed.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:43am EST
AP - Overwhelmed by deep snow and harsh temperatures, some countries in Europe closed down schools and struggled to continue public transport and garbage pick-up Monday, as post-snow rains caused a dam to collapse in Bulgaria, flooding a village and killing at least four.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:36am EST
AP - An elections panel Monday affirmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's candidacy for Myanmar's Parliament in another step toward political openness in a country emerging from nearly a half-century of iron-fisted military rule.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:33am EST
Reuters - Syrian and Libyan demonstrators hurled rocks, eggs and tomatoes at the Chinese embassy in Tripoli on Monday, after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution backing an Arab plan urging Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:17am EST
Reuters - Tightening international sanctions against Iran look set to shrink its economy, push up inflation and further erode its currency, but they may fail to deliver a knock-out blow that forces Tehran to compromise on its nuclear ambitions.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:16am EST
Reuters - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition group said.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:33am EST
Reuters - The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal in Qatar on Monday to form a unity government of independent technocrats for the West Bank and Gaza, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:20am EST
Time.com - Whether called the Falklands or Las Malvinas, the south Atlantic islands are once again the center of a diplomatic row as the 30th anniversary of a brief war approaches
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:20am EST
Time.com - The breach among the Permanent Five members of the U.N. Security Council in Saturday's vote on Syria's increasingly bloody power struggle could have profound implications for Syria's immediate future
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:02am EST
Reuters - Sixty years after she ascended to the throne in an austere Britain still facing post-war rationing, Queen Elizabeth marked the milestone on Monday with a new website that showed just how much the world has changed during her reign.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:04am EST
Reuters - A three-storey factory collapsed on Monday in the Pakistani city of Lahore after a gas explosion, killing at least five people and trapping dozens, emergency officials said.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:28am EST
AP - In a story Feb. 5 about the deaths of two filmmakers in an Australian helicopter crash, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the crash. Nowra is 97 miles (156 kilometers) south of Sydney, not north.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:00am EST
AP - A major political party in Mexico has chosen a female presidential candidate for the first time, as the ruling party bet that a charismatic former congresswoman will help it erode the lead held by its powerful rival.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 4:20pm EST
Reuters - A group of Canada's leading Muslim clerics has issued a fatwa against so-called "honor killings," just a week after three members of an Afghan Canadian family were convicted of a gruesome quadruple murder that triggered a national debate about cultural values.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:07pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt is bringing criminal charges against at least 40 people, including some American citizens, over the foreign funding of nongovernmental organizations, sharply raising the stakes in a standoff with the US that has put $1.3 billion in US military aid to Egypt at risk.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:24pm EST
AP - A German reporter says he was beaten by guards during his nearly five months of imprisonment in Iran and that he heard constant, "horrible cries" of other inmates being tortured.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:21pm EST
Reuters - Protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian Interior Ministry on Sunday and were forced back with volleys of teargas.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:11pm EST
Reuters - Iran will target any country used as a launchpad for attacks against its soil, the deputy Revolutionary Guards commander said, expanding Tehran's range of threats in an increasingly volatile stand-off with world powers over its nuclear ambitions.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:10pm EST
AP - Egyptian officials say Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to a prison hospital as soon as the facility is upgraded to house the 83-year-old former president.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:29am EST
Reuters - Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic party (PDP) won a governorship election in the northern state of Adamawa, despite fierce criticism over the party's handling of an insurgency in the north.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:46am EST
AP - Brazilian media report 78 people have been murdered in and around the northeastern city of Salvador since the start of a state police strike there five days ago.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:16am EST
AP - A U.N. human rights envoy said Sunday that Myanmar is considering letting foreign observers monitor April elections that are viewed as crucial for gauging the nation's much-heralded democratic reforms.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 9:50am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria appear to have reached an impasse following the vetoing by Russia and China of a United Nations Security Council resolution.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 9:05am EST
Time.com - Friday night, Syrian security forces carried out what the opposition Syrian National Council called a "horrific massacre" targeting Homs in one of the worst in the 11-month uprising.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 9:05am EST
Time.com - Four more die in a day of violent clashes, as anger over alleged police complicity in a stadium tragedy unleashes pent-up frustrations
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:14am EST
Reuters - A car bomb in the south Afghan city of Kandahar killed at least nine people and wounded 19 on Sunday, the presidential palace said in a statement.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:56am EST
Reuters - Three Tibetans in southwestern China have set themselves ablaze in protest against Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, the latest in a series of self-immolations over the past year.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 1:25am EST
AP - An American soldier shot and killed an Afghan guard at a base in the country's north, apparently because the American thought the guard was about to attack him, Afghan police said Sunday.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:40am EST
Reuters - Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 12:12am EST
AP - Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria's bloodshed, despite international outrage Saturday over a devastating bombardment of the city of Homs by President Bashar Assad's forces. Activists said more than 200 were killed in the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month uprising.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:47pm EST
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc backed Argentina on Saturday in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 8:47pm EST
Reuters - An Egyptian government building was set on fire on Sunday as protests disrupted the heart of Cairo for a fourth day and public figures demanded a faster transition to civilian rule.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:54pm EST
Reuters - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power with warnings that low temperatures would continue into next week.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:40pm EST
Reuters - An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel Sunday, witnesses and state television reported.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 5:23pm EST
Reuters - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Vancouver Island on Saturday, some 209 miles west of Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:35pm EST
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that launched his political career on Saturday, presiding over a military parade while fighter jets and helicopters roared overhead.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:14pm EST
Reuters - Egypt's military faced pressure on Saturday to speed up its transfer of power to civilians, as top public figures demanded a faster transition and street protests against army rule disrupted the heart of Cairo for a third day.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 2:52pm EST
AP - Romans bewildered by their city's first big snowfall in 26 years used government-issued shovels to clear sidewalks, and kitchen utensils to clear windshields Saturday.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 2:51pm EST
AP - Egyptian security forces on Saturday fired tear gas from armored trucks at protesters demanding an end to military rule, as anger over a deadly soccer riot fueled a third day of clashes that have killed at least 12 people.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 2:38pm EST
Reuters - Russia and China vetoed Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to end his bloody crackdown on unrest after hundreds were reported killed in the city of Homs.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:56pm EST
Reuters - Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westwards over the continent on Saturday, blanketing Rome's Colosseum with snow for the first time in three decades and disrupting air and rail traffic.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:40pm EST
Reuters - South Africa's ruling ANC on Saturday upheld a decision to ban youth leader Julius Malema for five years for bringing the movement into disrepute, sending into the political wilderness a noisy rebel who had called for the nationalisation of mines.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:21pm EST
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday issued a new warning to Egypt that the failure to resolve a bitter dispute over the status of non-governmental pro-democracy groups may lead to the loss of American aid to the country.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:39pm EST
Reuters - Tens of thousands of Russians defied bitter cold in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair elections in a march against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, while supporters of the prime minister staged a rival rally drawing comparable numbers.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:19am EST
Reuters - U.S. Senator John McCain warned China's Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that "the Arab Spring is coming to China" and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:35am EST
Time.com - Friday night, Syrian security forces carried out what the opposition Syrian National Council called a "horrific massacre" targeting Homs in one of the worst in the 11-month uprising.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:35am EST
Time.com - Four more die in a day of violent clashes, as anger over alleged police complicity in a stadium tragedy unleashes pent-up frustrations
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:42pm EST
Reuters - Canada's prime minister drew an apparent line in the sand on foreign takeovers on Friday, saying he wanted to see BlackBerry maker Research In Motion grow "as a Canadian company" and questioning whether hostile takeovers of key domestic firms are in the country's best interests.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:39pm EST
AP - Iguanas of Puerto Rico: Your days are numbered.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:38pm EST
Reuters - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:33pm EST
AP - Seemingly failed talks this week between Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency have instead increased pressure on Tehran to defuse suspicions before another meeting later in the month that it secretly worked on atomic arms, diplomats said Friday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:28pm EST
ContributorNetwork - States-side fans of video game consoles, from the first Nintendo Entertainment System to its modern successor the Wii, know what it's like for a game that looks awesome to only come out in Japan.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:27pm EST
AP - Bedouin tribesmen abducted two female American tourists and their Egyptian guide at gunpoint Friday but released them several hours later after negotiations with tribal leaders in the Sinai Peninsula, the region's security chief said.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:06pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - With its initial public offering this week, Facebook is roaring ahead. However, new European Union privacy regulations are taking aim at Internet companies' ability to profit through control of personal information â the key to their tremendous online advertising profits.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:20pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - In the good times he was the doyen of British banking. Wealthy and courted by decision makers and knighted by Queen Elizabeth for services to his industry, Sir Fred Goodwin, head of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), seemed invincible.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:10pm EST
Reuters - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Friday tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:06pm EST
Reuters - Greece's government struggled on Friday to agree tough labor reforms that would appease both wary political leaders and irate lenders faced with a rising bill to save the country from bankruptcy.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:58pm EST
Reuters - South Sudan's oil minister was riled when he discovered production from one of his remote oil fields was out by 40,000 barrels per day, and immediately knew who to blame.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:57pm EST
Reuters - Caterpillar Inc has decided to close its Electro-Motive locomotive plant in London, Ontario, and lay off at least 450 workers following several months of unsuccessful contract negotiations with the Canadian Auto Workers union.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:50pm EST
AP - The head of the BBC on Friday accused Iran of intimidating staff members of its Persian service through slander, snooping and the arrest of their relatives.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:31pm EST
Reuters - Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Friday were released into army custody a few hours later, security sources said.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:30pm EST
Reuters - Detroit automakers are urging President Barack Obama to reject Japan's bid to join talks on a regional free trade agreement, the head of an automotive group representing GM, Ford and Chrysler said on Thursday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:31am EST
Reuters - With the enemy at the gates, Bashar al-Assad was dining out.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:37am EST
Reuters - Iran's supreme leader threatened on Friday to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a U.S. newspaper said defense secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 5:35am EST
Time.com - The dramatic rise and swift fall of Bangladesh's stock market is a cautionary tale for emerging-market investors oblivious to the perils of hasty deregulation and rapid capital inflows
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:49am EST
Reuters - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran's oil exports.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:49am EST
Reuters - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran's oil exports.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:46am EST
AP - Opposition groups that include hard-line Islamists have taken control of Kuwait's parliament, according to election results Friday, in a rise that could limit the hands of pro-Western rulers in dealings such as U.S. plans to boost its military presence in the oil-rich Gulf nation.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:46am EST
AP - Opposition groups that include hard-line Islamists have taken control of Kuwait's parliament, according to election results Friday, in a rise that could limit the hands of pro-Western rulers in dealings such as U.S. plans to boost its military presence in the oil-rich Gulf nation.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:41am EST
Reuters - In a demonstration of its growing military power, China is increasingly willing to deploy its armed forces to protect Chinese nationals abroad, but analysts say it still lacks the capacity to mount a complex hostage rescue.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:37am EST
AP - NATO defense ministers are tackling the controversial issue of how to pay for Afghanistan's expanding security forces after they assume responsibility for the war in 2014.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:37am EST
AP - NATO defense ministers are tackling the controversial issue of how to pay for Afghanistan's expanding security forces after they assume responsibility for the war in 2014.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:31am EST
Reuters - Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of tear gas near Egypt's Interior Ministry on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths in Port Said of 74 people - the country's worst soccer disaster.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:28am EST
Reuters - Hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous posted a protest against Greece's EU and IMF-inspired austerity policies on the website of the country's justice ministry Friday, a ministry spokeswoman said.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:11am EST
AP - Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium — this nation's temple to the sport.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:11am EST
AP - Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium — this nation's temple to the sport.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:23am EST
Reuters - The U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia ruled on Friday that the Khmer Rouge's prison chief should serve the rest of his life in jail, extending a 19-year sentence handed down in July 2010 that outraged survivors of the "killing fields" regime.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:41am EST
Reuters - About 100 people are feared trapped inside a ferry that sank in rough weather off Papua New Guinea, a rescue official said Friday, a day after the crowded boat went down with about 350 people on board.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:00am EST
Time.com - The dramatic rise and swift fall of Bangladesh's stock market is a cautionary tale for emerging-market investors oblivious to the perils of hasty deregulation and rapid capital inflows
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:00am EST
Time.com - The dramatic rise and swift fall of Bangladesh's stock market is a cautionary tale for emerging-market investors oblivious to the perils of hasty deregulation and rapid capital inflows
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:00am EST
Time.com - Curators at the Prado Museum in Madrid believe they have found a copy of da Vinci's masterpiece created even as the master painted his mysterious portrait
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:24am EST
Reuters - Growing speculation that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard could be dumped by her party before the end of the year forced senior ministers to rally behind her Friday after a disastrous start to 2012.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:09pm EST
AP - Police fired salvos of tear gas and birdshot Friday at rock-throwing protesters in Cairo as popular anger over a deadly soccer riot spilled over into a second day of street violence that left at least four people dead and more than 1,500 injured nationwide, officials said.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:56pm EST
Reuters - Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draft includes language Moscow has rejected.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:55pm EST
AP - Rescuers battling big waves and strong winds have pulled nearly 250 people from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank. More than 110 people remained missing Friday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:53pm EST
Reuters - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, U.S. media reported on Thursday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:12pm EST
Reuters - A top Chinese newspaper stepped up Beijing's opposition to a Western push for tighter sanctions against Iran, warning Friday that tensions over Tehran's nuclear program are hurting energy markets and could stifle the global economic recovery.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:24pm EST
AP - Members of an Indian tribe in Panama are blocking roads in two provinces on the border with Costa Rica in a dispute over mineral exploitation on their lands.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:11pm EST
AP - Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Thursday he has concerns there could be a military conflict with Iran over its disputed nuclear program.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:21pm EST
AP - An air and sea search continued Friday for more than 120 people still missing in the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank with 362 people on board, officials said.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:20pm EST
AP - Security forces clashed Thursday with stone-throwing protesters enraged by the failure of police to prevent a soccer riot that killed 74 people, as sports violence spiraled into a new political crisis for Egypt.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:07pm EST
AP - Assailants in pickup trucks fired homemade mortars at a police station in this western town Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, the regional police chief said.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:00pm EST
AP - JOB CUTS: Drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC said it will cut another 7,300 jobs as it warned Thursday of a tough year ahead, due to government spending cuts on health care and stiff competition.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:48pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - With the official deployment of Prince William to the Falkland Islands, another chapter in the nearly two-century-old sovereignty conflict between Britain and Argentina is about to be written.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:24pm EST
Reuters - The owners of the capsized Italian liner Costa Concordia said Thursday they expected to announce plans by the end of March to remove the wreck.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:05pm EST
Time.com - Curators at the Prado in Madrid believe they have found a copy of Da Vinci's masterpiece created even as the master painted his mysterious portrait
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:53pm EST
Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper may still be smarting from Canada's failed bid to ramp up oil exports to the United States, but his plan B could prove to be even tougher.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:14pm EST
AP - Dozens of Palestinians on Thursday tried to block U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon from entering the Gaza Strip and pelted his armored convoy with shoes and sticks, accusing him of being unfairly biased toward Israel.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:14pm EST
AP - The Foreign Ministry is accusing the European Union foreign policy chief of interfering in Russia's internal affairs in her statement on the Russian election.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:13pm EST
Reuters - Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of them. Of the rest, nearly 60 percent live in Asia and hooking them is going to be a daunting challenge.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:09pm EST
Reuters - Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardizing extraditions to many neighboring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued Thursday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:03pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Nigerian police believe they may have arrested the man who acted as spokesman for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has launched a killing spree across northern Nigeria, killing nearly 1,000 people in the past two years.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:00pm EST
AP - The bodies of John and Wanda Casias came one last time to the Baptist church they founded in a violence-plagued region of northern Mexico as mourners paid homage Thursday to the Texas couple who were discovered strangled in their home.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:00pm EST
Reuters - The World Bank said on Thursday that Egypt has asked for a $1 billion loan and it will launch talks with government representatives to iron out the details.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:59pm EST
Reuters - The command centre for a controversial missile defense shield in Europe will be housed at a U.S. air base in western Germany, a NATO spokesman said on Thursday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:59pm EST
AP - In a story Feb. 1 about the arrest of a purported spokesman of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Ahmed Abdullahi, the Borno state director of the State Security Service, confirmed the man's capture. Another official in the state, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, confirmed it to local journalists.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:37pm EST
Reuters - U.S. forces will cede the lead role in combat operations in Afghanistan next year, but will keep fighting alongside Afghan troops, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, as the Obama administration struggled to clear up confusion over its Afghan exit strategy.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:45am EST
Time.com - Protests are erupting in Cairo once again and fingers are being pointed at the military, at the remnants of the old regime and, as is becoming increasingly common, at foreigners
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:45am EST
Time.com - The defiance and bluster among Egypt's militant soccer fans following the death of at least 74 people in a stadium in Port Said betrayed a sense of foreboding
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:03am EST
Reuters - The United States, European governments and Arab states have begun discussing the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad despite skepticism the defiant Syrian president is ready to consider such an offer, Western officials said on Wednesday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:26am EST
Reuters - Australian Gina Rinehart could soon become the world's wealthiest woman after amassing an $18 billion fortune from mining and media investments, Forbes magazine says in its latest list of the wealthiest people in Australia.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 9:01pm EST
AP - The Tokyo Stock Exchange says it has suspended trading in 241 securities, including Sony Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., due to a glitch in its electronic trading system.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:35pm EST
Time.com - Envisioned as a tool for reform, a new government site encourages ordinary citizens to point out the absurdities and inanities of the bureaucracy
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:06pm EST
AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration's most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with Afghan forces through 2014.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:46pm EST
AP - Every police officer in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has been ordered to leave home and stay in a hotel after the killing of five officers by a local drug cartel.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:35pm EST
Reuters - Syrian troops closed public squares in Hama on Thursday after residents poured red paint symbolizing blood on the ground to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre President Bashar al-Assad's father carried out to crush an uprising.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:29pm EST
Reuters - Egyptians incensed by the deaths of 74 people in soccer violence clashed with security forces on Thursday during protests against the army-led government for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:32pm EST
AP - It's usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:02pm EST
AP - Police have arrested six demonstrators while pulling down tents and posters at the Occupy Sydney protest site in Australia's largest city.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:48pm EST
Reuters - Nigeria's secret service arrested the purported spokesman for Islamist militant sect Boko Haram Wednesday, a group that has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly bombings and gun attacks, a secret service source told Reuters.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:35pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Decades of sharp exchanges between Britain and Argentina escalated this week as Argentina reasserted its claim to the Falklands Islands, a territory about 300 miles off the Argentine coast that has been ruled by Britain since 1833. Britain responded, as it always has, that it has no intention of giving the islands up.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:11pm EST
The Christian Science Monitor - Five months ago, in a grand auditorium and beneath a cinema-sized screen scrolling images of starving children, Africaâs leaders gathered to promise an end to a growing food crisis.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:46pm EST
Reuters - Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a deputy minister called the biggest disaster in the nation's soccer history.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:46pm EST
AP - Colombia's Supreme Court has convicted a former president of Congress of close ties to a far-right militia leader and sentenced him to nine years in prison.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:46pm EST
AP - The Taliban dismissed reports they are preparing to talk peace with the Afghan government, and a NATO report leaked Wednesday shows captured insurgents full of confidence they will seize power after international troops leave.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:40pm EST
AP - Heavy gunfire and shelling rattled towns in a mountain valley outside Damascus on Wednesday, as Syrian troops opened a new front in their campaign to crush rebels who have taken control of areas around the capital.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:36pm EST
AP - Albania's state ombudsman says he has moved dozens of homeless members of the Roma community into his Tirana office to highlight their plight as a cold snap hits the region.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:20pm EST
Time.com - Hina Rabbani Khar talks with TIME about her country's relationship with Afghanistan, the U.S., and its own army
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:20pm EST
Time.com - Envisioned as a tool for reform, a new government site encourages ordinary citizens to point out the absurdities and inanities of the bureaucracy
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:15pm EST
Reuters - Rival militias fought a two-hour gunbattle over a luxury beach house being used as a barracks in the Libyan capital Wednesday, underscoring how volatile the country is following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:00pm EST
Reuters - The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remains confident despite a decade of NATO efforts that it will retake control of Afghanistan, NATO said in a new classified report that raises more questions about Afghanistan's future as foreign forces withdraw.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:59pm EST
Reuters - Arriving in Egypt last year, Julie Hughes had hoped to help write history by aiding the country's new generation of politicians and civil society groups to build a democratic future.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:45pm EST
Reuters - Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors plan another trip to Iran later this month after holding what both sides described as good talks on the Islamic state's disputed atomic program.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:24am EST
The Christian Science Monitor - A classified US military report leaked to the media compiles interviews with Taliban detainees who say their group is primed to regain control of Afghanistan after NATO forces leave in 2014.
