The mayor of the South Korean capital Seoul has resigned after losing a referendum on free school lunches. Oh Se-hoon’s resignation Friday comes two days after he lost a citywide referendum that drew less than a third of the city’s eligible voters, failing a legal requirement for counting ballots. Oh, a conservative ally of President […]
Seoul Mayor Resigns After Referendum Fails
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 11:00 pm (UTC-5)
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4 NATO Troops Killed in Afghanistan
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 9:55 pm (UTC-5)
NATO has said four of its service members died Thursday in three separate incidents in southern Afghanistan. A NATO statement said three soldiers were killed by two bomb blasts, while the fourth died in an insurgent attack. More than 390 international troops have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year. Taliban insurgents are increasingly […]
Blast at Mexico Casino Kills 20
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 9:50 pm (UTC-5)
At least 20 people have been killed after armed assailants set fire to a casino in northern Mexico. Monterrey Mayor Fernando Larrazabal told reporters Thursday people remain trapped inside the burning building and rescue efforts are ongoing. Initial accounts reported the gunmen had used grenades, but state officials now say the attackers doused the casino […]
US to Release $1.5 Billion for Libya
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 8:50 pm (UTC-5)
The United States and South Africa have reportedly reached a deal to allow the release of $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets, to be used by the country’s opposition-run council for urgent humanitarian aid. Those assets had been blocked under U.N. sanctions against the government of Moammar Gadhafi. But U.S. officials said Thursday the money […]
Bomb Blast Kills 11 in NW Pakistan
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
A bomb planted in a child’s bicycle exploded at a crowded market in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province late Thursday, killing 11 people and wounding at least 14 others. Local officials said the bomb went off as people were shopping for the upcoming Muslim festival of Eid in the town of Risalpur. They said the blast […]
Study: Obesity Rising Worldwide
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 8:45 pm (UTC-5)
Health experts are warning that obesity is on the rise worldwide, especially in the United States and Britain. A new study published Friday in the medical journal, The Lancet, says 1.5 billion adults are overweight and another half-a-billion are obese. Obesity is also on the rise among the world’s children, with 170 million classified as […]
Blast at Mexico Casino Kills 6
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 8:35 pm (UTC-5)
At least six people have been killed in a grenade attack at a casino in northern Mexico. State officials said gunmen Thursday threw at least one grenade into the casino in the city of Monterrey. The blast sparked fires and witnesses reported dense smoke around the building. Some local media are reporting a higher death […]
US Court Sets Aside Conviction in Rwanda Genocide Case
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 7:50 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. judge has dismissed all charges against an elderly immigrant accused of taking part in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. The federal judge in Kansas Thursday granted a request by prosecutors to drop the case against Lazare Kobagaya. In May, a jury in Wichita found the 84-year-old Kobagaya lied on immigration forms about where he was […]
Prosecutors Return Passport to DSK
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has gotten his passport back from authorities, two days after a judge dismissed sexual assault charges against the former International Monetary Fund chief. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers said New York prosecutors returned the document Thursday, freeing the French native to return to France. The passport had been seized three months ago, when Strauss-Kahn was arrested […]
Airstrike Kills 8 Suspected Militants in Yemen
Posted August 25th, 2011 at 6:45 pm (UTC-5)
Officials in Yemen say an airstrike has killed eight militants in the country’s south. The officials said Thursday’s strike targeted a position held by militants with suspected links to al-Qaida in Yemen. On Wednesday, clashes between Yemeni forces and militants near Zinjibar in southern Abyan province killed at least 30 militants and seven soldiers. Militants […]
