Pope Benedict has met with three retired cardinals who are carrying out a probe into a leaked-documents scandal that revealed a power struggle in the highest levels of the church hierarchy. The closed-door meeting with Spaniard Julian Herranz, Jozef Tomko of Slovakia and Italian Salvatore De Giorgi was scheduled for Saturday afternoon. No other information […]
Pope Meets With Cardinals On Scandal Probe
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 4:30 pm (UTC-5)
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Car Bobm Kills 26 in NW Pakistan
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 4:05 pm (UTC-5)
A bomb planted in a pickup truck ripped through a market in northwest Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 26 people and wounding more more than 50 others. Authorities say the bomb exploded near a bus stand at a crowded bazaar in Landi Kotal in the Khyber tribal district. Several buildings were damaged in the explosion. […]
UN Observers Suspend Syrian Mission; Opposition Says Mission ‘Has Failed’
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 3:05 pm (UTC-5)
Unarmed United Nations observers are will no longer be going out on patrol in Syria, where intensifying violence has made the situation too risky. U.N. observer force commander Major General Robert Mood made the announcement Saturday, saying his people can do little good monitoring a cease-fire with both the government and the opposition stoking the […]
Egypt Ends First Day of Polling in Presidential Runoff
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 3:05 pm (UTC-5)
Egyptians have wrapped up the first day of voting in a two-day presidential runoff to select the country’s first president since massive protests led to former leader Hosni Mubarak’s resignation last year. Ahmed Shafiq, a Mubarak-era prime minister, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi are vying to become president. Voter turnout was mixed in Saturday’s […]
Carlotta Weakens after Hitting Mexico as Hurricane
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC-5)
Carlotta weakened from a hurricane to a tropical depression Saturday over southern Mexico after pummeling the country’s Pacific coast with strong winds and heavy rains and causing a mudslide that killed two children. The U.S. National Hurricane Center first downgraded Carlotta to a tropical storm Saturday before downgrading it again to a tropical depression. The […]
Aung San Suu Kyi Voices Concern Over Burmese Ethnic Violence
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 12:40 pm (UTC-5)
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi voiced concern about violence in the north and west of Burma Saturday, saying despite a cease-fire with the government, hostilities among some ethnic groups continue. She noted that “communal violence resulting in arson and murder” are occurring in western Burma, where state media say some 50 people have […]
Light Turnout in 1st Day of Egypt’s Presidential Vote
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC-5)
Egyptians began casting ballots Saturday in a two-day presidential run-off that pits a prime minister from former president Hosni Mubarak’s era against a Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Ahmed Shafiq, the former prime minister, is vying with the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi to become Egypt’s first president since the huge outpouring of anti-government protests that forced Mubarak’s to […]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Dies
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC-5)
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud has died. He was in his late 70s. State media reports say Prince Nayef, the long-time interior minister who was next in line to the Saudi throne, died on Saturday. News reports say he died in Geneva. He recently traveled to the Swiss city to seek treatment […]
UN Observers Suspend Syrian Mission; Opposition Says Mission ‘Has Failed’
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 12:00 pm (UTC-5)
Escalating violence is forcing United Nations observers to suspend their mission in Syria “until further notice.” The head of the U.N. observer force announced the decision in a statement Saturday. Major General Robert Mood cited an increase in violence over the last 10 days and said operations would resume only when he sees fit. “U.N. […]
Dual Blasts Target Iraqi Pilgrims; 26 Dead
Posted June 16th, 2012 at 11:20 am (UTC-5)
Two car bombs in Baghdad scattered body parts and turned vehicles into burned-out shells, killing 26 in the latest in a wave of attacks targeting Shi’ite pilgrims. The blasts struck the city’s Shula and Kadimiyah neighborhoods Saturday, just a few kilometers from a shrine to revered Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. […]
