U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking to rally his base of support among blue-collar factory workers as he heads to this week’s Democratic National Convention to be formally nominated for a second term in the White House. Mr. Obama is in Toledo, Ohio, in the heart of the industrialized central part of the U.S., for […]
Obama Seeks to Rally Labor Union Supporters
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC-5)
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Clinton Urges ASEAN, China to Agree Maritime Conduct Code
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has begun a visit to Indonesia by urging the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China to agree on a code of conduct for resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Speaking in Jakarta late Monday, Clinton said the United States has a national interest in maintaining stability […]
Angola Ruling Party Sweeps to Election Win
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 9:50 am (UTC-5)
Election results in Angola show the party of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos sweeping to an easy victory. Angola’s election commission says with most of the votes counted, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola had 72 percent of the vote. The leading opposition party, UNITA, won 18 percent. The new opposition Casa party […]
Suicide Car Bomb Targets US Consulate Employees in Pakistan
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 9:45 am (UTC-5)
A suicide car bomber killed at least two people and wounded 19 others in an attack on a U.S. consulate vehicle in northwestern Pakistan. The bombing occurred as the vehicle travelled Monday through an area housing various international organizations, including the United Nations, in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The U.S. embassy in Islamabad says […]
Labor Day: A Changed US Holiday
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 9:20 am (UTC-5)
Americans are celebrating the Labor Day holiday, a moment born as a salute to the nation’s unionized workers that now has often morphed into a day of family gatherings marking the unofficial end of summer. The first Monday in September became an official U.S. holiday in 1894 to celebrate a “wokingman’s holiday,” and through the […]
Korea’s Sun Myung Moon, Founder of Unification Church, Dead at 92
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC-5)
Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church and one of the most prominent Koreans in the world, has died. He was 92 years old. The Unification Church in South Korea said its founder succumbed to complications from pneumonia on Monday in a church-run hospital east of Seoul. Reverend Moon’s global business empire is worth […]
France: Chemical Weapons Would Bring ‘Massive’ Response to Syria
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 7:05 am (UTC-5)
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says Western powers would have a “massive” response to any use of chemical or biological weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Fabius said in broadcast interviews Monday there is broad agreement about such a response, calling chemical weapons “a very big danger.” His comments come as the head of […]
2 US Consulate Employees Wounded in Pakistan Blast
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 5:35 am (UTC-5)
The U.S. embassy in Islamabad says two American consulate personnel in Peshawar and two Pakistani staff members were wounded Monday in what the embassy describes as “an apparent terrorist attack.” The four were wounded when a suicide bomber’s explosive-laden car hit a consulate vehicle in the northwestern city of Peshawar, near Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal region […]
UN Syria Envoy Recognizes ‘Very Difficult Mission’
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 5:10 am (UTC-5)
The new United Nations-Arab League envoy tasked with bringing a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis says he has “no illusions” that his job will be easy. Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi said in an interview broadcast Monday by the BBC that he does not yet see any ways around the barriers that blocked the efforts […]
Pakistan’s ‘Blasphemy Girl’ Remains in Detention
Posted September 3rd, 2012 at 4:55 am (UTC-5)
The bail hearing of a Pakistani Christian girl arrested more than two weeks ago on blasphemy charges was adjourned Monday and rescheduled for Friday, leaving the girl in detention at least until then. The judge adjourned the hearing because of a lawyers’ strike. The girl, Rimsha Masih, was arrested by police after angry neighbors surrounded […]
