International News
Gates sees progress in tour of Afghan war zone (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 05:46 AM
- AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he saw and heard evidence that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.
Crowds attack home of Iranian opposition leader (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 05:49 AM
- AP - Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of an Iranian opposition leader with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to keep him from attending a key rally on Friday.
Police: Attacks on Pakistani minorities kill 10 (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 06:00 AM
- AP - Explosions killed at least 10 members of Pakistan's minority religious communities on Friday, driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding.
Court gives verdicts in Portugal child abuse trial (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 06:03 AM
- AP - A judge started reading a Portuguese court's verdicts Friday on more than 800 alleged crimes in a major child sex abuse trial that has lasted nearly six years.
Egypt TV show stirs debate over Muslim Brotherhood (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 02:53 AM
- AP - The bearded young cleric yells at a young woman for lifting her traditional veil from her face while speaking to him on the street, and rants against Egyptians who adopt Western lifestyles and values. His followers beat up an opponent.
German Banker's Anti-Immigration Book Riles the Nation (Time.com)
- September 3, 2010 at 04:40 AM
- Time.com - A new anti-immigration book by a director on the board of Germany's central bank has outraged the nation -- and has critics calling for his job
BP says cost of Gulf of Mexico spill hits $8B (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 06:02 AM
- AP - BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
Explosions hit south Lebanon village, cause fire (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 05:44 AM
- AP - Lebanese security officials say several explosions have caused a large fire in a southern village.
Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in troubled border state (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 05:47 AM
- AP - Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war.
Kenya allows Int'l Criminal Court to open office (AP)
- September 3, 2010 at 05:36 AM
- AP - Kenya is allowing the International Criminal Court to open an office in the country.
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