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by By ALEXANDRA OLSON 2 Sep 2010 at 10:43pm By ALEXANDRA OLSON 2010-09-03T03:43:24Z MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels.... by By YURI KAGEYAMA 2 Sep 2010 at 10:15pm By YURI KAGEYAMA 2010-09-03T03:15:58Z TOKYO (AP) -- Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea Shepherd said Friday. A town official said none were killed.... by By BINSAR BAKKARA 2 Sep 2010 at 10:13pm By BINSAR BAKKARA 2010-09-03T03:13:40Z TANAH KARO, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian volcano sent a new, powerful burst of hot ash high into the air early Friday, violently shaking homes and trees along the slopes and sending panicked villagers scurrying back to safety.... 2 Sep 2010 at 10:10pm By 2010-09-03T03:10:38Z BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Suspected leftist rebels killed 14 police officers and wounded seven in an ambush of a five-truck convoy in southern Colombia, a police commander said Thursday.... by By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER 2 Sep 2010 at 10:27pm By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER 2010-09-03T03:27:17Z CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- An electoral official accused President Hugo Chavez and his allies of breaking campaign laws by using state-run media to berate rivals and praise friends ahead of this month's legislative elections.... by By SANGWON YOON 2 Sep 2010 at 9:02pm By SANGWON YOON 2010-09-03T02:02:52Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The death toll from Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, rose to five in South Korea, an official said Friday.... by By MARK WALSH 2 Sep 2010 at 10:47pm By MARK WALSH 2010-09-03T03:47:32Z MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Soldiers killed 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has seen a surge in drug gang violence, the military said.... by By GONZALO SOLANO 2 Sep 2010 at 10:29pm By GONZALO SOLANO 2010-09-03T03:29:51Z QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- One of two known survivors of a drug gang's massacre in northern Mexico of 72 undocumented Central and South American migrants said in an interview broadcast Thursday that they were killed because they refused to work for the traffickers.... by By IBRAHIM BARZAK AND JOSEF FEDERMAN 2 Sep 2010 at 3:06pm By IBRAHIM BARZAK AND JOSEF FEDERMAN 2010-09-02T20:06:54Z GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.... by By DONNA BRYSON 2 Sep 2010 at 5:21pm By DONNA BRYSON 2010-09-02T22:21:33Z JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A few pennies' increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry - and erupting in anger - in the world's poorest countries.... |
2 Sep 2010 at 8:00pm In an online statement, the Animal Liberation Front says it carried out the attacks last week near the towns of Kastoria and Siatista, in the heart of Greece's fur industry. 2 Sep 2010 at 3:51pm Acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking's new book, The Grand Design , has not even released yet, but it has already caused a stir. 2 Sep 2010 at 1:55pm The power of the Internet is still being shown in the efforts to track down the "puppy throwing girl," the one who threw a number of live puppies into a river, on camera, in a horrific video. 2 Sep 2010 at 11:50am One of the most poorly kept secrets in recent memory, Samsung officially announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab on Thursday in Berlin at the 2010 IFA electronics show. 2 Sep 2010 at 9:43am Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu is investing $1.4 billion in renovating a run down section of Mexico City known as the Plaza Carso. 2 Sep 2010 at 9:40am Two American troops died in fighting in Afghanistan on Thursday, while NATO and local officials said coalition and Afghan forces killed dozens of insurgents in a series of ground and air engagements. 2 Sep 2010 at 9:40am A shopkeeper was battered to death in his own store as he tried to protect his "hard-earned money" from a gang of robbers, a jury has been told. 2 Sep 2010 at 9:40am VENICE, Italy -- Darren Aronofsky sees his newest film "Black Swan" as the companion piece to "The Wrestler." "Black Swan" made its world premiere as the opening film at the Venice Film Festival's 67th edition on Wednesday, bringing the American director back to the Lido, where "The Wrestler" won the top Golden Lion prize two years ago. 2 Sep 2010 at 7:09am Estelle Gonzales Walgreen: "I am practically blind from all the holy water thrown at me" As one of 33 million Catholic Latinos in the U.S. I am well versed on the rosary, novenas, penance and the versatile uses of holy water when one is in hot water. 2 Sep 2010 at 5:41am A four-year-old boy has gone missing with two adults who were looking after him. 2 Sep 2010 at 3:37am Typhoon Kompasu struck South Korea early Thursday, killing three people while it knocked over streetlights and scaffolding in what was called the strongest tropical storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years. 2 Sep 2010 at 2:37am American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs. 2 Sep 2010 at 12:31am An 11-year-old girl injured when a jetliner carrying 131 people crashed on Colombia's San Andres Island last month has died, raising the accident's death toll to two. 1 Sep 2010 at 8:17pm A 10-year-old girl was taken to hospital after she was bitten by a dog in the second attack of its kind this week in Scotland. 1 Sep 2010 at 7:12pm Struggling to break decades of hostility, President Barack Obama convened an ambitious new round of Mideast peace talks Wednesday and told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they faced a fleeting chance to settle deep differences. |
Wash Post World by William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service 2 Sep 2010 at 9:46pm President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Thursday that an increasingly bloody war with powerful drug trafficking organizations continues to pose "the central threat" to Mexico. by William Wan 2 Sep 2010 at 8:00pm BEIJING - If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan Province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank. 2 Sep 2010 at 8:00pm by Greg Jaffe 2 Sep 2010 at 6:25pm KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out angrily Thursday against the arrest of one of his closest aides this summer on corruption charges, saying that the detention iwas conducted in a manner "exactly reminiscent of the Soviet presence in Afghanistan" and that the investigation was illeg... by Juan Forero 2 Sep 2010 at 10:07am BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - He was once one of London's best-known '60s-era rogues, dressed flamboyantly, spinning around town in a Mini Cooper and using a bodyguard known as "the butcher" to threaten his rivals. by Andrew Higgins, David Nakamura and Ernesto Londo??o 2 Sep 2010 at 9:20pm As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown. by Leila Fadel 2 Sep 2010 at 3:26pm BAGHDAD - As President Obama declared Tuesday that it was "time to turn the page" in Iraq, Mahmoud Othman - tuning in to the Oval Office address here at 3 a.m. - listened in shock.  by David Nakamura and Andrew Higgins 1 Sep 2010 at 11:00pm KABUL - With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation's biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to Afghanistan's economy but also to the battle against the Taliban. by Ellen Nakashima and Peter Finn 1 Sep 2010 at 10:16pm The sergeant who supervised Bradley E. Manning, the Army private accused of leaking classified material to the online site WikiLeaks, was so concerned about the soldier's mental health that he disabled Manning's weapon late last year, the private's attorney said Wednesday. by Chico Harlan 1 Sep 2010 at 10:02pm Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, on the job for just 85 days, could soon be knocked from power by his chief rival, Ichiro Ozawa, who is seeking to regain political prestige that Kan had helped to undermine.  by David Nakamuraand Andrew Higgins 2 Sep 2010 at 7:03am KABUL - With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation's biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to Afghanistan's economy but also to the battle against the Taliban.  by Scott Wilson 2 Sep 2010 at 8:42pm Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton officially inaugurated a new Middle East peace process Thursday urging patience and leadership from the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, who soon after agreed to meet in less than two weeks for a second round of talks. by Spencer S. Hsu and William Branigin 1 Sep 2010 at 2:14pm The U.S. government designated the Pakistani Taliban a terrorist group Wednesday and accused its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, of involvement in a December suicide bombing that killed seven Americans at a forward CIA post in eastern Afghanistan. by Scott Wilson 1 Sep 2010 at 1:22pm As President Obama convenes the first direct Middle East peace talks in 20 months, the question many observers here and in the region are asking is what, if anything, makes this round any more hopeful than the last.  by Greg Jaffe and Leila Fadel 1 Sep 2010 at 10:03pm BAGHDAD - The U.S. military's war is officially over in Iraq, even as the future of the country remains undecided. The signs of the end were everywhere Wednesday, despite the presence of about 49,000 American troops who remain mostly sequestered on large U.S. bases. |
NYT > World by By MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER 2 Sep 2010 at 9:01pm Middle East negotiators agreed to keep talking, but the issue of West Bank settlements threatens to derail the negotiations. by By ETHAN BRONNER 2 Sep 2010 at 9:01pm Simon Wiesenthal, who ran a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, worked for Israel’s spy agency, a new biography claims. by By DEXTER FILKINS 2 Sep 2010 at 10:31pm Afghanistan’s top bank official tried to calm fears of a meltdown at Kabul Bank, while scores of Afghans were unable to withdraw money from the bank. by By CHOE SANG-HUN 2 Sep 2010 at 10:14pm North Korea’s leader is to convene a ruling party meeting where it is expected that his son will be given an official post, a step on the road to leadership. by By NIDA NAJAR 2 Sep 2010 at 10:00pm Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room. by By JOSH KRON 2 Sep 2010 at 10:10pm Aid officials expected that number to rise in the four-day attack by Congolese and Rwandan rebels. by By SEBNEM ARSU 2 Sep 2010 at 10:01pm “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine” is built around the unsuccessful attempt in May by a six-boat Turkish flotilla to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. by By REUTERS 2 Sep 2010 at 9:01pm Attackers smashed windows and damaged security cameras at the home of Mehdi Karroubi a day before a rally that the authorities worry might reignite antigovernment protests. by By CLIFFORD J. LEVY 2 Sep 2010 at 10:00pm Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin announced Thursday that Russia’s ban on grain exports would be extended well into next year because of continued uncertainty over production. by By MICHAEL SLACKMAN 2 Sep 2010 at 9:47pm Thilo Sarrazin, a former official who has been criticized as espousing racist views, has set off a discussion about Germany’s immigration policy. by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2 Sep 2010 at 9:10pm Mexico’s military says 25 suspects have been shot dead by soldiers in a gunbattle near the U.S. border. by By REUTERS 2 Sep 2010 at 1:50pm The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence. by By JOHN F. BURNS 2 Sep 2010 at 10:10pm The foreign secretary rejects speculation that he had a relationship with an aide, and focuses instead on his relationship with his wife. by By BENJAMIN DIERKS 2 Sep 2010 at 9:21pm The government of Abu Dhabi, with the help of a German consultant, is working on a plan to extend its emergency freshwater reserves from 48 hours to 90 days. by By BENJAMIN WEISER 2 Sep 2010 at 10:30pm A judge will review if a government witness can testify in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, charged with plotting the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa. |
