Mexico police find 5 dead, including mummified corpse, on farm
July 03, 2009 - 5:54 pm
MORELIA, Mexico - Mexican police found a mummified corpse and four other dead bodies on a farm in the drug-plagued western state of Michoacan on Friday. Four of the bodies were found in an unmarked grave, and the fifth was discovered inside a farmhouse in the small town of Coatepec de ...
Soldier killed when Canadian commander's convoy hits IED in Afghanistan
July 03, 2009 - 5:53 pm
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier travelling through a hotbed of Taliban activity was killed Friday when his armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb seconds after it was narrowly missed by the senior commander of coalition forces in Kandahar province. Cpl. Nick Bulger, a ...
Palin's resignation signals run in 2012 that's sure to be a rough, wild ride
July 03, 2009 - 5:23 pm
WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin's stunning announcement Friday that she's stepping down as Alaska governor is sure to renew heated debate in the United States about the media's treatment of her political aspirations, her capabilities and the state of modern-day feminism. Palin's announcement that ...
Top Iran cleric says British Embassy staffers to be tried, accuses London of fueling protests
July 03, 2009 - 5:22 pm
A powerful cleric said Friday that Iran will put British Embassy staffers on trial for fomenting postelection turmoil, a step that would likely increase Iran's isolation and alienate Western nations that have been trying to keep options open with Tehran despite its crackdown on ...
Gunmen seize Irish, Ugandan aid workers in northern Darfur
July 03, 2009 - 5:20 pm
CAIRO - Gunmen abducted two female aid workers in Darfur on Friday, said the international peacekeeping mission in the western region of Sudan. It was the third kidnapping of foreign humanitarian workers since March, when an international court issued a warrant for the country's president ...
Flight 447: Dispute between Brazil, Senegal over which nation was in control of flight
July 03, 2009 - 4:23 pm
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's air force released a recording Friday it said proves it handed over control of Air France Flight 447 to Senegalese authorities before it crashed - but African officials denied that. The audio clip was posted on the air force's Web site after a French official ...
Vice-President Biden presses Iraqi leaders to make political progress
July 03, 2009 - 4:16 pm
BAGHDAD - Vice-President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq. He stressed that America wanted to "build up" its ...
6 people, including an infant, killed as blaze rips through London high-rise
July 03, 2009 - 4:09 pm
LONDON - Six people, including a 3-week-old baby, were killed and 30 people had to be rescued when fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building in London on Friday, emergency services said. London Fire Brigade and police said the dead were three adults and three children - a 3-week ...
Extramarital shenanigans give U.S. politics a soap opera flourish
July 03, 2009 - 2:56 pm
WASHINGTON - Sordid stories that seem plucked from the afternoon soap operas have been dominating the U.S. political landscape in recent days as Capitol Hill legislators took a breather during their Fourth of July recess. Front and centre for those who prefer real-life dirt to the fiction ...
Texas police baffled after 30 palm trees torched in 2 months; reward offered
July 03, 2009 - 2:42 pm
GALVESTON, Texas - Officials in Texas are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months. "What we've got on our hands, a serial tree arsonist, I've never seen before," said Galveston Fire Marshal Gilbert Robinson. "I've talked to colleagues of mine, and that's the ...
Honduras rebuffs top diplomat in ultimatum to restore president or face sanctions
July 03, 2009 - 2:40 pm
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras' Supreme Court has rejected an ultimatum to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power. Court spokesman Danilo Izaguirre says the head of the Organization of American States asked the president of the court to reinstate Zelaya, but he said no. ...
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she will resign from office July 26
July 03, 2009 - 2:39 pm
WASILLA, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Republican vice-presidential candidate, made a surprise announcement Friday that she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White ...
Angry protesters block Paris airport to halt Yemeni flight on route that saw deadly crash
July 03, 2009 - 1:34 pm
PARIS - Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros on a route that saw a deadly crash this week after years of complaints about dangerous conditions en route to the Indian Ocean island nation. Many in the ...
UN chief says Myanmar junta leader rejects initial request to see opposition leader Suu Kyi
July 03, 2009 - 1:31 pm
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon could leave Myanmar empty-handed after apparently failing to win any concessions Friday from the country's top military ruler or to gain permission to visit opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in jail. Ban talked for two hours with ...
Palestinian factions arrest rivals to strengthen their grip on the West Bank, Gaza
July 03, 2009 - 1:16 pm
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces have significantly widened a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank in the past month, doubling the number of detainees and increasingly targeting wives of activists, school teachers and others on the fringes of the Islamic ...
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