Police kill 7 gunmen in central Mexico shootout

Monday, January 16, 2012

MEXICO CITY –  Seven gunmen are dead following a pre-dawn shootout with police on a highway in the city of Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City.A federal police officer is recovering from a gunshot wound to the foot following the confrontation.The prosecutors office in the central Mexican state of...

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Car bombs kill 11 in Iraq

Monday, January 16, 2012

BAGHDAD –  Car bombs ripped through two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least 11 people, Iraq officials said, in the latest attacks targeting the country's Shiites a month after the U.S. military withdrawal.Violence has surged across Iraq since the last American troops left the country. A string...

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Egypt's transition to democracy grows messier

Monday, January 16, 2012

CAIRO –  Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei's surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt's transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand over power.In less than two weeks on Jan. 25, Egyptians will mark a year since the...

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Pakistan Taliban Leader Reportedly Killed in U.S. Drone Strike

Monday, January 16, 2012

ISLAMABAD –  Intercepted militant radio communications indicate the leader of the Pakistani Taliban may have been killed in a recent U.S. drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said Sunday. A Taliban official denied that.The report coincided with sectarian violence — a bomb blast in eastern...

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Iran warns Arabs not to replace Iranian oil if it's embargoed

Monday, January 16, 2012

TEHRAN, Iran –  An Iranian pro-reform newspaper says the country's OPEC governor has warned the country's Arab neighbors that Tehran will view any increase in crude production to counterbalance a potential embargo on Iranian oil as an unfriendly act.A Sunday report by Shargh daily quotes Mohammad...

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Several suspects in custody in killing of Iranian nuclear scientist

Monday, January 16, 2012

TEHRAN, Iran –  An Iranian news website is reporting several suspects are in custody over last week's killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist.Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said the suspects are being interrogated, and the investigation is continuing. He talked to Iran's state...

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Nigeria labor says no agreement to end fuel strike

Monday, January 16, 2012

ABUJA, Nigeria –  Nigeria's government and labor unions failed Saturday night to end a paralyzing nationwide strike over high gasoline costs, potentially sparking an oil production shutdown in a nation vital to U.S. oil supplies.It was not immediately clear early Sunday whether a major oil workers'...

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Afghan official: 3 killed in helicopter crash

Monday, January 16, 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan –  A civilian helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing all three people on board, an Afghan official said.Marjan Haqmal, police chief of Nad Ali district in Helmand province, said the Russian-made aircraft probably went down because of a technical malfunction.NATO...

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Bomb targeting religious procession kills 13 in Pakistan

Monday, January 16, 2012

MULTAN, Pakistan –  A bomb blast ripped through a religious procession in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 13 people and wounding at least 20 in the latest sectarian attack in the country, police said.Hundreds of Pakistani Shiites had gathered in the town of Khanpur in Punjab province for a...

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India reports new TB strain resistant to all drugs

Monday, January 16, 2012

Indian doctors are reporting the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.It's not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy and Iran....

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Death toll in Beirut building collapse rises to 20

Monday, January 16, 2012

BEIRUT –  Using cranes, bulldozers and their bare hands, Lebanese rescue workers searched the rubble Monday of a five-story residential building that collapsed after days of heavy rains, killing at least 20 people.Most of the dead were foreign workers living in Lebanon. The owner of the building...

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Third person found alive after search for survivors of deadly shipwreck resumes

Monday, January 16, 2012

PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy –  Firefighters worked Sunday to rescue a crew member with a suspected broken leg from the overturned hulk of the luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia, 36 hours after it ran aground while carrying more than 4,200 people.Spokesman...

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Israeli PM: Palestinians not interested in peace talks

Monday, January 16, 2012

JERUSALEM –  Israel's prime minister says the Palestinians have no interest in restarting peace negotiations.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's observation comes just days after negotiators met for the first time in more than a year.Netanyahu told Israeli lawmakers Monday that the Palestinians...

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Large-scale Israeli-US war games postponed

Monday, January 16, 2012

JERUSALEM –  The Israeli and U.S. militaries have postponed large-scale war games, in part to avoid aggravating mounting tensions between the international community and Iran over its disputed nuclear program, Israeli defense officials said Monday.The missile defense exercise, dubbed "Austere...

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Pakistan's Supreme Court begins contempt proceedings against Prime Minister

Monday, January 16, 2012

Pakistan's top court initiated contempt proceedings Monday against the prime minister for failing to carry out the court's order to open a corruption probe into the president, ramping up the pressure on the beleaguered civilian government.The Supreme Court ruling open up the possibility that Prime Minister...

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Syria's President Assad grants amnesty for crimes committed during unrest

Monday, January 16, 2012

BEIRUT –  Syria's state news agency says President Bashar Assad has granted a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest of the past 10 months.SANA says the amnesty issued Sunday covers those who have peacefully demonstrated, those who have carried unlicensed weapons and those who hand...

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Nigeria labor announces suspension of fuel strike

Monday, January 16, 2012

LAGOS, Nigeria –  Unions suspended their nationwide strike on Monday, hours after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan partially reinstated subsidies to keep gasoline prices low and deployed soldiers in the streets to halt widening demonstrations.Union leaders described their decision as a victory...

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Series of suicide attacks strike western Iraq

Monday, January 16, 2012

RAMADI, Iraq –  A series of car and suicide attacks struck the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday as gunmen stormed a police building.Four car bombs were detonated at a mosque and police building in the city, 60 miles west of Baghdad, and two suicide bombers struck inside the police building.Gunmen...

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Rescue team resumes search of stricken Italian cruise ship

Monday, January 16, 2012

GIGLIO, Italy –  The rescue operation on the cruise liner shipwrecked off the Italian coast resumed Monday afternoon after a brief suspension, as fears grew for the 16 people -- including an American couple and a five-year-old child -- who remained missing.The...

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Mexico police back down after impounding toy motorcycle, arresting 6-year-old driver

Monday, January 16, 2012

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico –  Police in this border city repented over ticketing a 6-year-old boy for reckless driving, driving without a license and not having his vehicle registered after he drove his miniature motorcycle into an SUV.The boy's mother, Karla Noriega, said police impounded the miniature...

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Al Qaeda in Yemen captures town south of capital

Monday, January 16, 2012

SANAA, Yemen –  A band of Al Qaeda militants seized full control of a town 100 miles south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, overrunning army positions, storming the local prison and freeing at least 150 inmates, security officials said.The capture...

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Protesters gather for fourth straight day in Romania

Monday, January 16, 2012

Romanian police take position in the center of Bucharest on January 15, 2012 during a demonstration against the government's austerity program and Romanian President Traian Basescu.Protesters gather in Bucharest and 18 other Romanian citiesIt was the fourth...

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Rescuers brave elements to scour ship

Monday, January 16, 2012

Divers inspect the Costa Concordia on Sunday. The death toll from the disaster off the Tuscan island stands at five.NEW: Rescue work is temporarily suspendedSix are dead, about 16 are still missing, officials sayWater has become rescuers' biggest obstacle...

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The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions

Monday, January 16, 2012

To understand the drug war, accept that it's impossible to keep track of all its players. Accept that there are no white hats or black hats. There's only grey. Fog.There is, however, agreement among experts about when war was declared: In late 2004 in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, 10 minutes from...

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Egypt's transition to democracy grows messier

Monday, January 16, 2012

Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei's surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt's transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand over power.View the original article hereEgypts,t...

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Americans rise in rank inside Somalia jihadi group

Monday, January 16, 2012

The October Al Qaeda video shows a light-skinned man handing out food to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the masked man is not Somali, or even African -- he's a Wisconsin native who grew up in San Diego.View the original article hereAmerican...

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Bomb targeting religious procession kills 13 in Pakistan

Monday, January 16, 2012

Police say a bomb has struck a religious procession, killing 13 people in eastern Pakistan.View the original article heretargeting,religious,procession,kills,Pakis...

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Luxury cruise ship's captain being held for questioning

Monday, January 16, 2012

A top Costa executive, Gianni Onorato, said Saturday the Concordia's captain had the liner on its regular, weekly route when it struck a reef.View the original article hereLuxury,cruise,ships,captain,being,question...

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Taiwan's China-friendly president wins re-election

Monday, January 16, 2012

Taiwan's president won re-election Saturday, paving the way for a continuation of the China-friendly policies that have delighted Beijing and Washington, and caused consternation among some in Taiwan worried about the durability of their de facto independenceView...

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Iraq: Death toll from attack on pilgrims now 53

Monday, January 16, 2012

A bomb killed at least 53 Shiite pilgrims near the southern port city of Basrah on Saturday, an Iraqi official said. It was the latest in a series of attacks during Shiite religious commemorations that have killed scores of people and threaten to further...

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Egypt's ElBaradei pulls out of presidential race

Monday, January 16, 2012

Egypt's reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday he is pulling out of the country's presidential race to protest the military's failure to put the country on the path to democracy.View the original article hereEgypts,ElBaradei,pulls,president...

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Series of suicide attacks strike western Iraq

Monday, January 16, 2012

A series of car and suicide attacks struck the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday as gunmen stormed a police building.View the original article hereSeries,suicide,attacks,strike,west...

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