Afghan and U.S. forces battled insurgents in central Wardak province Sunday, near the site where a U.S. army helicopter went down a day earlier, killing 30 U.S. troops, including special force Navy SEALs, eight Afghan commandos and an interpreter. The fighting was ongoing as NATO teams tried to recover the wreckage of the twin rotor […]
Fighting at Site of US Helicopter Crash in Central Afghanistan Continues
Bahrain Releases Two Former Lawmakers After Unrest
Bahrain has released a group of detainees, including two former Shi’ite lawmakers, who were arrested in the wake of widespread anti-government protests in the Gulf State earlier this year. The official Bahrain News Agency says lawmakers Jawad Fairooz and Matar Matar, former MPs from the kingdom’s largest Shi’ite party, Wefaq, were released from jail on […]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Will Stay On
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told President Barack Obama that he will stay on in his position, as experts predict a negative impact on the stock market after a downgrade in the U.S. credit rating. The Treasury Department Sunday said Geithner will remain in his post for the present, to deal with the country’s […]
Israeli FM: Palestinians Plan Unprecedented ‘Bloodshed’ Next Month
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is accusing the Palestinian Authority of planning unprecedented “bloodshed” next month, to coincide with its diplomatic bid to gain U.N. membership for an independent Palestine. In comments to reporters Sunday, Lieberman said the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is organizing marches in which thousands of people will try to […]
Anti-China Protest Again Staged in Vietnamese Capital
At least 100 people protested Sunday in the Vietnamese capital against Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea — the latest in a string of anti-China protests in Hanoi in the past two months. Witnesses say police allowed flag-waving demonstrators to march, as they filmed the procession and redirected traffic to allow it to […]
Burmese Democracy Leader Plans Political Foray Outside Rangoon
Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to make a political visit outside Rangoon next week, despite a notice from the pro-military government warning her and her supporters to halt all political activities. An opposition spokesman, Nyan Win, said the Nobel laureate will visit a region north of Rangoon on August 14 to […]
Official: U.S. Credit Rating Could Downgrade Further
The managing director of Standard and Poor’s credit rating agency says there is a one in three chance that the U.S. credit rating will downgrade further over the next six months to two years. John Chambers said on U.S. television Sunday that the credit rating, which the agency downgraded from triple-A to double-A-plus on Friday, […]
Europe Banking Officials Discuss Debt Crisis
HEAD: Europe Banking Officials Discuss Debt Crisis DATE: 08/07/11 NUMBER: 1230040 TYPE: CN )) Officials from the European Central Bank are engaged in urgent telephone negotiations over the debt crisis facing both Europe and the United States. They are discussing the possibility of purchasing Italian government bonds in order to shore up that country’s economy […]
Militant Commander Killed in Indian Kashmir
Indian security forces says two senior militant commanders were killed during separate gunfights in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Officials say Abu Usman, a commander for the militant Lashkar-e-Taiba, was killed during a clash Sunday in southern Poonch district. Another senior militant was killed during a separate operation in northern Kashmir. Muslim separatists have been fighting for Kashmir’s […]
Iraq Bombing Kills Six
Iraqi police say insurgent attacks in several parts of the country have killed eight people, including six family members whose home was blown up in central Iraq. Police say several bombs exploded around the house before dawn Sunday in the town of Iskandariyah, also damaging a nearby residence. Two of those killed in the attack […]