The first company to fly to the International Space Station has begun its first mission to deliver cargo to the orbiting lab as part of a $1.6 billion contract with the U.S. space agency NASA. The Falcon9 rocket built by California-based SpaceX lifted off from Cape Canaveral in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida late […]
SpaceX Begins 1st Cargo Delivery Mission to Space Station
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 9:35 pm (UTC-5)
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Nigerian Army Says 30 Boko Haram Terrorists Killed in Gunbattle
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 8:25 pm (UTC-5)
Nigeria’s army says soldiers on Sunday killed 30 suspected Boko Haram members during a gunfight in northeastern Yobe state. A spokesman says a senior aide to Boko Haram’s leader was among those killed. Nigerian soldiers seized a number of weapons including rifles, knives and bows and arrows. The army says it arrested 10 Boko Haram […]
Romney to Make First Major Foreign Policy Speech of Campaign
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes his first major campaign speech on foreign policy Monday. Mr. Romney will speak to students at the Virginia Military Institute in the town of Lexington — the country’s oldest military academy. So far, he has focused mostly on the economy and his plans to repeal President Barack Obama’s […]
France Beefs Up Security at Religious Sites After Anti-Jewish Attacks
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 5:25 pm (UTC-5)
French police carried out another raid Sunday in Cannes as part of a nationwide terrorist crackdown after attacks on a Jewish grocery store and a synagogue. So far, police have arrested 11 suspects in Cannes, Paris and Strasbourg, where a suspect was killed during a gunfight with police. French President Francois Hollande says he is […]
Libyan Assembly Fires PM, Prolonging Struggle to Form Government
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 5:15 pm (UTC-5)
Libyan lawmakers have fired their new interim prime minister by voting no confidence in his proposed Cabinet, prolonging the struggle to form a government capable of uniting and stabilizing the war-torn nation. Libya’s General National Congress rejected Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur’s Cabinet lineup Sunday by a vote of 125-44 with several abstentions, resulting in his […]
US Meningitis Outbreak Continues to Grow
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 4:10 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. federal health officials say the number of comfirmed fungal meningitis cases has climbed to 91, with seven deaths and perhaps thousands of others infected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says most of the cases are in Tennessee, where 32 people are sick and three have died. But authorities fear that the tainted […]
Car Bomb Kills 1 in Syrian Capital
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 2:55 pm (UTC-5)
A powerful car bomb has killed at least one person near police headquarters in Syria’s capital. Syrian state media called the blast a “terrorist attack.” The Syrian opposition denies any links to terrorists, but the Sunni extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra has claimed responsibility for bombings in the past. The explosion is the latest of several […]
Sudan Orders Borders Reopened with S. Sudan
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC-5)
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has ordered land and river border crossings with South Sudan reopened, after agreements signed last month that eased tensions between the neighboring states. Sudan’s state-run media said Sunday that Mr. Bashir “ordered the opening of all the highway or river gates on the border.” The directive came as the president met […]
Philippines, Muslim Rebels Agree to Forge Pact
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC-5)
The Philippine government says it has reached a preliminary peace deal with the nation’s largest Muslim rebel group in the country’s south, intended to end a decades-long separatist insurgency that has killed more than 120,000 people. President Benigno Aquino said in a nationally-televised announcement Sunday that the deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front – […]
Pakistan Military Blocks Anti-US Protest From Tribal Region
Posted October 7th, 2012 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
The Pakistani military has prevented a convoy of thousands of people with the goal of protesting U.S. drone strikes common in the country’s tribal areas from reaching South Waziristan. Authorities stopped the group just short of the tribal region’s border Sunday. Pakistani cricket star turned politician Imran Khan had been leading the march, which left […]
