International News
Two snowmobilers dead in Canadian avalanche (AP)
- March 14, 2010 at 07:34 PM
- AP - An avalanche that killed two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who apparently unleashed a deadly wall of snow on up to 200 people below, witnesses said Sunday.
Vatican denies celibacy rule led to sex scandal (AP)
- March 14, 2010 at 02:17 PM
- AP - The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope's handling of the crisis.
UN chief sees dangers up-close in Haiti quake camp (AP)
- March 14, 2010 at 06:45 PM
- AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in teeming camps for the homeless.
Taliban: Kandahar bombings a 'warning' to NATO (AP)
- March 14, 2010 at 07:27 PM
- AP - The Taliban have called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents are ready for the war's next major offensive in their heartland.
Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims (AP)
- March 14, 2010 at 07:01 PM
- AP - With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?
Calling for New Election, Anti-Government Protesters Swarm Bangkok (Time.com)
- March 14, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Time.com - Tens of thousands of demonstrators surged the Thai capital on Sunday, pushing Thailand towards a tense political standoff
"No need" for Greek bailout decision - German finance minister (Reuters)
- March 14, 2010 at 07:34 PM
- Reuters - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said there was no reason for Euro zone finance ministers to make any decision on financial aid for debt-ridden Greece when they met on Monday.
Iraqi PM holds slim lead in partial election tally (AP)
- March 14, 2010 at 04:28 PM
- AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki edged ahead Sunday in a tight race in the country's parliamentary elections after partial results from all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed his bloc leading in seven — two more than his chief rival.
3 with ties to US consulate killed in Mexican city (AP)
- March 14, 2010 at 07:49 PM
- AP - A U.S. consulate employee and her husband were shot to death as they drove in this drug-plagued Mexican city with their baby in the back seat, minutes after gunmen killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two children, officials said Sunday.
Kidnapped French aid workers freed in Darfur (AFP)
- March 14, 2010 at 05:43 PM
- AFP - Two French aid workers abducted in the Central African Republic and held for four months were on Sunday freed in Darfur, the Sudanese region gripped by civil war and a wave of kidnappings.
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