Pakistani police say the head of an anti-Taliban committee has been killed by a suicide blast in the country’s northwest. Police officials say the suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying committee chief Fateh Khan Saturday in restive Buner district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The attack also killed three guards and wounded several other people. Buner district […]
Head of Anti-Taliban Group Killed in Pakistan
Posted November 3rd, 2012 at 8:20 am (UTC-5)
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5 Kidnapped Aid Workers Freed in Niger, 1 Killed
Posted November 3rd, 2012 at 8:00 am (UTC-5)
Officials in Niger say five African aid workers who were kidnapped by suspected al-Qaida militants last month have been freed. The aid groups BEFEN and Health Alert say the workers were freed on Saturday near Niger’s border with Mali. They say a sixth worker who had been kidnapped with the group was shot during the […]
Syrian Rebels Launch Assault for Airbase
Posted November 3rd, 2012 at 7:05 am (UTC-5)
Syrian activists say opposition forces and government troops are fighting for control of a northern airbase. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels launched an offensive Saturday morning to take the Taftanaz airbase. On Friday, the Observatory said rebels had taken control of a strategic northern town crucial to the government’s fierce campaign against […]
New York Continues to Recover From ‘Superstorm’
Posted November 3rd, 2012 at 6:30 am (UTC-5)
Many New Yorkers Saturday are still without critical resources, including power, heat and food, in the wake of the devastation caused by “superstorm” Sandy that thrashed the U.S. East Coast. Some New Yorkers were surprised that Mayor Michael Bloomberg had initially given the go-ahead for Sunday’s New York Marathon, when so many of the city’s […]
Former Ivory Coast President Fit To Stand Trial
Posted November 2nd, 2012 at 5:05 pm (UTC-5)
The International Criminal Court says former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is well enough to stand trial for crimes against humanity. The court in the Hague made the decision Friday after considering the assessment of three doctors who evaluated Mr. Gbagbo’s health. ICC judges said some special measures could be taken during the trial to […]
Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes Final Voyage to Permanent Home
Posted November 2nd, 2012 at 1:30 pm (UTC-5)
After traveling about 200-million kilometers during 33 trips into space, the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis is making one final voyage. Early Friday morning, the last of NASA’s three surviving space shuttles to be retired from service left the Kennedy Space Center’s huge Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida for a relatively short 16-kilometer ride to the […]
Armed Demonstrations Subside Outside Libya’s Parliament
Posted November 2nd, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC-5)
Armed militiamen and protestors appear to be winding down demonstrations at Libya’s national assembly building in Tripoli following protests over the country’s newly approved cabinet. The dissent erupted Wednesday evening shortly after parliament endorsed the 30-member cabinet chosen by Prime Minister-designate Ali Zeidan. The protestors say some members of the Cabinet, most notably the foreign […]
Romney: Higher Unemployment Shows US Economy at ‘Virtual Standstill’
Posted November 2nd, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is using the one-tenth-of-a-point increase in the nation’s unemployment rate to criticize his rival, President Barack Obama, as the candidates move into the closing days before Tuesday’s election. The former Massachusetts governor called the 7.9 percent October jobless rate “a sad reminder that the economy is at a virtual […]
Attack in SW Pakistan Kills 18
Posted November 2nd, 2012 at 11:05 am (UTC-5)
Officials in southwest Pakistan say at least 18 people have been killed after gunmen opened fire on a passenger van at a fuel station, triggering a massive fire. The vehicle was stopped in the Khuzdar district of Baluchistan province Friday, when gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed the driver and then fled. The gunfire sparked […]
Greek Transit Workers Strike
Posted November 2nd, 2012 at 10:55 am (UTC-5)
Greek transit workers struck Friday in the first of what labor officials say will be a new wave of protests against austerity measures the Athens government is seeking to impose. Subway and suburban rail service in Athens was halted as engineers protested labor reforms that Greece’s lenders are demanding in exchange for handing the country […]
