Biden steers past tension with Israel over settlement plans, implores steps toward peace
March 11, 2010 - 3:37 pm
JERUSALEM - Vice-President Joe Biden attempted to soothe tensions with Israel on Thursday in a speech extolling the countries' close relationship, signalling the U.S. wants to move beyond an embarrassing diplomatic spat over settlements that tarnished his three-day visit. But the warm ...
Gates: Gulf allies understand Iran sanctions next step; Iranian support for Taliban ?limited?
March 11, 2010 - 3:36 pm
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that Persian Gulf allies understand sanctions are the inevitable next step in dealing with the threat of a nuclear Iran. He predicted economic sanctions will work because of broad international consensus ...
Bomb planted outside store kills 4, wounds 21 in NW Pakistan
March 11, 2010 - 3:35 pm
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A homemade bomb placed outside a store in northwestern Pakistan where locals watch movies exploded Thursday, killing four people, including a child, said officials. The attack, which also wounded 21 people, occurred on the outskirts of Peshawar, a city near the Afghan ...
Disabled Canadian beaten in Australia recovering from surgery: mother
March 11, 2010 - 3:34 pm
WINNIPEG - The parents of a Manitoba man who was viciously pushed out of his wheelchair and beaten at an Australian train station say he is recovering nicely following surgery. "Talking to him last night, I can just tell in his voice that he's going to be back to himself," Shellan Proden ...
Chile swears in conservative president as strongest quake aftershock prompts tsunami alert
March 11, 2010 - 3:32 pm
SANTIAGO, Chile - A series of strong aftershocks from last month's devastating quake rocked Chile on Thursday as a new president was sworn into office and immediately urged coastal residents to move to higher ground in case of a tsunami. The strongest aftershock, with a magnitude of 6.9, ...
Lesbian teen faces classmates after school cancels dance over her request to bring girlfriend
March 11, 2010 - 3:32 pm
JACKSON, Miss. - An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student says she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she returned to school after officials cancelled the senior prom because of her request to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. Constance McMillen says she didn't want to ...
Recovered body of Cyprus' former president reburied 3 months after its theft
March 11, 2010 - 3:31 pm
NICOSIA, Cyprus - The body of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos was reburied on Thursday, three months to the day after it was dug up from its grave and stolen in an apparent extortion bid. Orthodox Christian priests offered prayers during the 30-minute reburial ceremony as ...
Sweden labels mass World War I killing of Armenians genocide with 1-vote margin
March 11, 2010 - 3:30 pm
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Swedish news agency TT said Turkey recalled its ambassador from Sweden to protest the surprise decision, which was taken in a 131-130 vote ...
Religious hatred, politics and poverty weave tapestry of violence across central Nigeria
March 11, 2010 - 1:36 pm
JOS, Nigeria - Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria's fertile central belt, buying each other's goods in mixed neighbourhoods and cultivating each other's farms across a sun-baked plateau. But growing religious hatred, political and ethnic rivalries, and ...
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Suu Kyi denounces election laws that keep her out of race
March 11, 2010 - 1:33 pm
YANGON, Myanmar - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said she is surprised but undaunted at the military government's new election laws that will bar her from running for office or even voting in polls to be held this year. The Nobel peace laureate described the laws as ...
Preliminary results show Iraqi prime minister winning in 2 Shiite provinces in southern Iraq
March 11, 2010 - 11:31 am
BAGHDAD - Early results from Iraq's key election began coming in Thursday, showing a coalition led by the prime minister ahead in two southern Shiite provinces where he was opposed by hard-line religious parties with close ties to Iran. The results were the first to be officially released ...
Protesters clash with police in Athens demonstration during Greek general strike
March 11, 2010 - 10:50 am
ATHENS - Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures. Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle ...
Al-Qaida eyeing less-complex US attacks after seeing impact of Fort Hood, Dec. 25 militants
March 11, 2010 - 10:46 am
WASHINGTON - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a US-bound airliner tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing. In ...
Red Cross: After erratic rains, seed, fertilizer shortages, Zimbabwe at brink of food crisis
March 11, 2010 - 9:31 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe - An estimated 2.17 million Zimbabweans - perhaps a fourth of the country's population - are in need of food aid, the Red Cross said Thursday. In a statement, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies pleaded for international funds for urgent ...
43 Somalis killed in capital after 2 days of fighting between Islamists and government
March 11, 2010 - 9:28 am
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack, officials said Thursday. Militants attacking from ...
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