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Spain P.M. to call early general elections

World NewsJul 31, 2011

MADRID (AP) ― Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Friday announced early general elections in November, scheduling the race four months earlier than anticipated to give his Socialist Party a better chance to stay in power amid growing outrage over the nation’s economic woes.Zapatero set the election date for Nov. 20 even though he was not required to call elections until March a
Iraq deadlier now than a year ago: U.S. report

World NewsJul 31, 2011

Recent deaths, attacks by militias cast doubts as Baghdad prepares to stand aloneBAGHDAD (AP) ― Frequent bombings, assassinations and a resurgence in violence by Shiite militias have made Iraq more dangerous now than it was just a year ago, a U.S. government watchdog concludes in a report released Saturday.The findings come during what U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart
China defends carrier plans amid neighbors’ concern

World NewsJul 28, 2011
Murder of mayor deals new setback to Karzai

World NewsJul 28, 2011

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) ― An assassin struck at the heart of President Hamid Karzai’s political machine in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing the mayor of Kandahar with an exploding turban and deepening a power vacuum in the Taliban’s main stronghold.The slaying of Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi was the third killing of a Karzai associate in a little more than two weeks. The attacks have jeopa
‘Putin considers Kremlin return’

World NewsJul 28, 2011
Norway agrees security review after killings

World NewsJul 28, 2011
Morocco plane crash kills 80, no survivors

World NewsJul 27, 2011

RABAT (AFP) ― A military transport plane slammed into a mountainside in bad weather in southern Morocco on Tuesday, killing all 80 people on board, hospital and military sources said.King Mohammed VI announced three days of national mourning following the crash, one of the deadliest in the country’s history.The army said 78 people were killed on the spot after the Hercules C-130 crashed on the edg
NATO bombing must stop before talks: Lybia

World NewsJul 27, 2011
Kosovo police units wait near blockades set up by Kosovo Serbs on the Leposavic-Mitrovica road on Tuesday. AFP-Yonhap News

World NewsJul 27, 2011

PRISTINA (AP) ― Kosovo’s Prime Minister has defended an order for his special police to take control of two contested border crossings with Serbia, saying it was “the right decision” despite condemnation from the European Union.Hashim Thaci said the operation in which a member of the police unit died and four others were slightly injured was a “concrete step in establishing the rule of law” in the
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi holds rare talks with government

World NewsJul 26, 2011
Vietnam names new president amid China rift

World NewsJul 26, 2011

HANOI (AP) ― Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly appointed Truong Tan Sang as the communist country’s new president Monday amid challenges at home with the economy and abroad with China over disputed territory in the South China Sea.Sang, 62, a southerner who was a former mayor and party chief in Ho Chi Minh City, had most recently served as the de facto No. 2 in charge of the Communist Party, r
China launches safety campaign after deadly train crash

World NewsJul 26, 2011
Obama vows to work on immigration reform

World NewsJul 26, 2011
Aid reaches Somalia

World NewsJul 25, 2011

NAIROBI (AFP) ― The International Red Cross said Sunday it had handed out 400 tons of food in drought-hit parts of rebel-held southern Somalia as the UN prepares to host emergency talks on the crisis in the region.“The distribution took place in the Bardera district and passed without incident, with the knowledge of the authorities and the recipients,” ICRC spokesman Yves Van Loo told AFP in Nairo
Afghan transition tempered by violence

World NewsJul 25, 2011

Fierce fighting serves as reminder that war is not over in some partsSIRAQULA, Afghanistan (AP) ― Shortly after the call to prayer resounded over the harvested poppy fields near Salaam Bazaar, two Taliban commanders were heard on their radios asking how their forces were doing.The number of Taliban fighters who respond varies, but in the last month a squad of U.S. Marines at a small patrol base he