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Hezbollah, Syrian rebels in worst clash in Lebanon
June 3, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and Hezbollah guerrillas battled Sunday in their worst clashes yet inside Lebanon, a new sign that the civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilizing its fragile... more »»
Central Europe hit by floods after days of rain
June 3, 2013 BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in parts of central Europe issued disaster warnings and scrambled to reinforce flood defenses Sunday as rivers swelled by days of heavy rain threatened to burst their banks. more »»
Congressmen find few Boston attack clues in Russia
June 3, 2013 MOSCOW (AP) — The head of a U.S. more »»
Trinidad PM says China offers $3 billion in loans
June 3, 2013 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — China's president has offered concessionary loans to nine Caribbean countries totaling some $3 billion, Trinidad & Tobago's prime minister said Sunday. more »»
Spike in violence in Iraq has echoes in the past
June 2, 2013 Spike in violence in Iraq has echoes in the past ADAM SCHRECK,Associated PressROBERT H. REID,Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — More than a year after the U.S. more »»
China president makes first ever visit to Trinidad
June 2, 2013 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time with officials in Trinidad and Tobago Saturday on the first stop of a four-country regional tour. more »»
Egypt's long-scorned legislature deepens rift
June 2, 2013 CAIRO (AP) — When voters went to the polls more than a year ago to vote for Egypt's upper house of parliament, most presumed the legislature would be the powerless talk shop that it had always been... more »»
2 Mexico kidnap victims sons of drug traffickers
June 2, 2013 MEXICO CITY (AP) — It started to rain last Saturday night and the temperature dropped. So 19-year-old Said Sanchez Garcia stopped home to get a sweater. more »»
SKorea's gay film maker in news over wedding plans
June 2, 2013 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The first time a South Korean celebrity announced he was gay, in 2000, the reaction was quick and without empathy. more »»
Rockets from Syria hit Hezbollah stronghold
June 2, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — Eighteen rockets and mortars rounds from Syria slammed into Lebanon on Saturday, the largest cross-border salvo to hit a Hezbollah stronghold since Syrian rebels threatened to retaliat... more »»
Police charge 2nd suspect in UK soldier death
June 2, 2013 LONDON (AP) — British police charged a second suspect Saturday with the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in a London street, as right-wing and antifascist groups both demonstrated in... more »»
Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes
June 2, 2013 ISTANBUL (AP) — In a scene reminiscent of the Arab Spring, thousands of people on Saturday flooded Istanbul's main square after a crackdown on an anti-government protest turned city streets into a... more »»
Balance of power in Syria shifting Assad's way
June 1, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — As hopes for a Syrian peace conference fade and the opposition falls into growing disarray, President Bashar Assad has every reason to project confidence. more »»
Turkish police raid sit-in against tree removal
June 1, 2013 ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish riot police used tear gas and water cannon Friday to end a peaceful sit-in by hundreds of people trying to prevent trees from being uprooted in an Istanbul par. more »»
Poetry and bickering at Iran's presidential debate
June 1, 2013 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's ailing economy, hit hard by international sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, was supposed to be the center of the first debate Friday between eight hopefuls... more »»
Hagel issues stern warning to China
June 1, 2013 SINGAPORE (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is delivering a two-pronged message to Beijing — holding out hope for a slowly improving military relationship while issuing a stern warning on... more »»
Toronto mayor won post on conservative discontent
June 1, 2013 TORONTO (AP) — Mayor Rob Ford stomped to victory in Toronto's elections three years ago on a wave of discontent simmering in the outlying neighborhoods of Canada's quiet, efficient financial capital. more »»
Radical monks, prejudice fuel Myanmar violence
June 1, 2013 LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — When a huge mob of Buddhist thugs crawled on the roof of Ma Sandar Soe's shop, doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze, the Buddhist businesswoman didn't blame them for... more »»
NKorean farmers planting rice with profits in mind
June 1, 2013 HAMHUNG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean farmers knee deep in muddy paddies across the country have a new incentive during this year's crucial rice planting season: possible bonuses that are part of... more »»
Syria's Assad 'confident in victory' in civil war
May 31, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he is "confident in victory" in his country's civil war, and he warned that Damascus would retaliate for any... more »» |
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