Kandahar governor demands more Afghan forces, NATO help after 12 explosions kill dozens
March 14, 2010 - 3:38 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The governor of Kandahar province demanded more security around Afghanistan's largest southern city Sunday after a series of explosions killed dozens of people in the Taliban heartland - the target of the war's next major offensive by Afghan and international ...
Official: Pakistani jets pound Taliban hide-outs near Afghan border, killing 9 insurgents
March 14, 2010 - 3:36 am
a series of Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border, killing nine insurgents. Rasheed Khan says the hide-outs were in the village of Mero Bak, in the Lower Orakzai tribal region. He says one of the targeted houses belonged to a local Taliban commander, Aslam Farooqi, though it was ...
Strong earthquake hits off eastern coast of central Japan, rattles buildings in Tokyo
March 14, 2010 - 3:33 am
TOKYO - A strong earthquake hit off the eastern coast of central Japan on Sunday, rattling buildings across a broad swath of the country, including the crowded Tokyo capital. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, and the government said there was no danger from ...
French vote in regional elections seen by many as judgment on Sarkozy
March 14, 2010 - 2:21 am
PARIS - France was electing new regional governments Sunday in a vote that is seen by many as a referendum on President Nicolas Sarkozy's past 2 1/2 years in power. Leftists are riding high into the elections, which look likely to end in a setback for Sarkozy's conservatives, blamed by ...
China vows to fight rebound in economic crisis, to boost spending on social welfare
March 14, 2010 - 2:19 am
BEIJING - China vowed Sunday to remain alert to any renewed signs of economic crisis, but said it will hold the line against critics urging an appreciation of its currency and will not seek an aggressive leading role in world affairs. Premier Wen Jiabao also repeated China's stance that a ...
Leaders of anti-government protesters demand Thai govt dissolves Parliament within 24 hours
March 14, 2010 - 2:16 am
BANGKOK, Thailand - Leaders of tens of thousands of protesters who swarmed into Bangkok from Thailand's rural areas Sunday threatened mass street demonstrations if the government didn't respond to their demand for a dissolution of Parliament within 24 hours. The demonstrators, popularly ...
Military report: Filipino militant with links to foreign financiers leads Abu Sayyaf faction
March 14, 2010 - 2:09 am
MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino militant wanted by Washington has become leader of a key faction of Abu Sayyaf, the al-Qaida-linked extremist group in the southern Philippines for which he has previously acquired foreign funding, the Philippine military says. A military report obtained by ...
Chavez says Internet should be regulated, urges legal crackdown on Venezuelan Web site
March 14, 2010 - 2:05 am
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information. In a televised speech, Chavez said: "The Internet can't be something ...
Officials free US woman held in alleged artist murder plot; mom says daughter ?lost her mind?
March 13, 2010 - 8:00 pm
LEADVILLE, Colo. - Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christine Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told her family they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps. Jamie ...
Europe's Catholic Churches face wave of sex abuse charges, fear more to come
March 13, 2010 - 5:09 pm
DUBLIN, Ireland - It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its ...
4 people freed over alleged plot to kill Swedish artist, 3 more still being questioned
March 13, 2010 - 4:12 pm
DUBLIN, Ireland - Four people, including an American woman, arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three others remain in custody, Irish police said Saturday. Seven people - three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian and a ...
Israel orders probe into fiasco that erupted during Biden visit
March 13, 2010 - 3:25 pm
JERUSALEM - Israel's premier has ordered an investigation into how government officials announced plans for a new Jewish housing project in east Jerusalem during a visit by Vice-President Joe Biden. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he ordered the probe late Saturday after he ...
Early leads by 2 secular political groups forecast Iraq rejection of fundamentalist government
March 13, 2010 - 2:09 pm
BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious ...
Sen. Reid's wife taken out of intensive care unit after surgery on broken neck following crash
March 13, 2010 - 2:08 pm
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington. Jon Summers, a spokesman for the senator, says Landra ...
Officials: Al-Qaida suspect from New Jersey asked his Yemeni guard to pray before shooting him
March 13, 2010 - 2:03 pm
SAN'A, Yemen - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time. The new details of Sharif ...
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