China’s Vice President Xi Jinping has appeared in public for the first time in two weeks. State news agency Xinhua reported Saturday that Xi had “arrived at China Agricultural University Saturday morning for activities marking this year’s National Science Popularization Day”. It gave no other details. Xi had not appeared at a number of meetings […]
State Media: China’s Xi Reappears in Public
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 10:35 pm (UTC-5)
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Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down Union Law, Governor Vows Appeal
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 9:10 pm (UTC-5)
A Wisconsin judge has struck down the state’s controversial collective bargaining law, saying the legislation championed by Governor Scott Walker unconstitutionally limits the rights of public sector workers. Friday’s circuit court ruling said the legislation, which triggered weeks of union protests last year in the state capital, violated union members’ rights to free speech. It […]
Bomb Threats Force Evacuations at 3 US Campuses
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 8:20 pm (UTC-5)
Police at three U.S. universities ordered mass evacuations Friday, after authorities received anonymous bomb threats. In one case, a caller told University of Texas-Austin officials that bombs had been place across the huge campus and that he belonged to al-Qaida. Texas officials and police at North Dakota State University later deemed both campuses safe, and […]
US Marines Killed in Attack on Afghan Base
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 7:55 pm (UTC-5)
Two U.S. Marines have been killed in an attack on a British military base in Afghanistan where Britain’s Prince Harry is stationed. Military officials say insurgents used mortars and rockets against Camp Bastion in Helmand Province early Saturday. They say Prince Harry, who is third in line to the British throne, was never in any […]
US Citizen Freed from Nicaraguan Prison
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 6:15 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. citizen sentenced last year to 22 years in a Nicaraguan prison for alleged drug trafficking has been freed. Jason Puracal, whose case became a rallying point for human rights activists, flew out of Managua Friday, a day after he and his co-defendants left the prison. Puracal has not spoken to reporters. His destination […]
Obama Attends Ceremony for Americans Killed in Libya
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 3:30 pm (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama says the United States will be resolute in protecting its embassies while attending a ceremony marking the return of the bodies of four Americans killed in Libya this week. President Obama said these are “difficult days” for the United States but he said America will never stop working for the world and […]
Protests Rage Over Anti-Muslim Film
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 2:55 pm (UTC-5)
A fourth day of protests erupted across the Muslim world Friday, where anger continues to grow over an anti-Islamic video posted on the Internet. From Tunisia to Egypt, Sudan to Yemen, protesters laid siege to embassies of the U.S. and its allies, denouncing the video and those they feel have not done enough to stop […]
World Stock Indexes Jump on US Economic Boost
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 1:40 pm (UTC-5)
Stock markets in Asia and Europe surged Friday as investors cheered the U.S. central bank’s aggressive actions to boost the sluggish American economy. The Hong Kong index advanced nearly 3 percent and the Tokyo market almost 2 percent. Stock indexes in London, Frankfurt and Paris closed higher, while key exchanges in the U.S. moved upward […]
More Anti-US Protests Over Anti-Muslim Film
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC-5)
New protests erupted across the Muslim world Friday, where anger is spreading over an anti-Islamic video posted on the Internet. The most recent protests broke out in Tunisia’s capital of Tunis, where police fired tear gas at rock-throwing demonstrators, some of whom were amble to jump over the wall surrounding the U.S. embassy. The violence […]
UN Envoy to Meet With Assad Saturday
Posted September 14th, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC-5)
The new U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is set to talk with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Saturday in Damascus as he continues his first official visit to the war-torn country. A U.N. spokesman said Brahimi met Friday with Syrian officials, U.N. staff, Red Cross officers, and envoys from Russia and China. Along with […]
