U.S. President Barack Obama has praised American workers on the country’s Labor Day holiday, while calling on his opponents to join him in supporting new spending to fix roads and bridges and extend a national payroll tax cut. The president made his comments Monday during a speech before a friendly audience in Michigan. The state […]
Obama Previews Jobs Plan Ahead of Speech to Congress
Posted September 5th, 2011 at 6:36 pm (UTC-5)
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Bodies of Missing Germans Found in Afghanistan
Posted September 5th, 2011 at 5:25 pm (UTC-5)
Afghan authorities say the bodies of two Germans who disappeared last month while hiking in the Hindu Kush mountains north of Kabul have been found. Police chief of Parwan province, Sher Ahmad Maladani, said a rescue team found the bullet-riddled bodies late Monday in a remote area near the Salang Pass. German Foreign Minister Guido […]
Mubarak Trial Resumes With Mayhem, Police Testimony
Posted September 5th, 2011 at 2:10 pm (UTC-5)
A senior police officer has testified in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that he was not aware of any order to shoot live ammunition at protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the uprising that led to the president’s ouster. General Hussein Moussa said at the resumption of Mr. Mubarak’s trial Monday that […]
Syria Grants Red Cross Access to Prison
Posted September 5th, 2011 at 1:05 pm (UTC-5)
The International Committee of the Red Cross says Syria has given the humanitarian organization access to a detention facility in the country for the first time since opposition activists launched a pro-democracy uprising in March. ICRC chief Jakob Kellenberger said Monday the Syrian government allowed a Red Cross delegation to visit the Damascus central prison. […]
Four Million in Crisis in Somali Famine
Posted September 5th, 2011 at 12:25 pm (UTC-5)
said Monday the enormous needs of the Somali people are not being met, and the next four months will be critical to stablizing the situation. He added that that UN workers have been able to increase activities in recent weeks because of increased funding from donor countries. The UN has appealed for $1.1 billion to […]
European And Asian Stocks Fall Sharply
Posted September 5th, 2011 at 11:15 am (UTC-5)
European stock markets were sharply lower in afternoon trading. London’s Financial Times 100 index lost 3.4 percent, the CAC-40 in Paris fell 4.5 percent, and the DAX in Frankfurt plunged 5.2 percent. Earlier in Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei index dropped 1.9 percent to close at 8,784. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost nearly three percent to […]
Asian, European Markets Sink on Fears of US Recession
Posted September 5th, 2011 at 5:40 am (UTC-5)
Asian and European markets suffered heavy losses Monday as anxiety spreads about disappointing job creation figures from the United States. The downturn began in Asia, where South Korea’s main stock index lost almost 4.4 percent on the day. The pain continued when trading moved to Europe, where Paris and Frankfurt opened with losses of more […]
Typhoon Death Toll in Japan Rises
Posted September 4th, 2011 at 9:40 pm (UTC-5)
The death toll from a powerful typhoon in Japan has risen to at least 24, while more than 50 people remain missing. Police and firefighters Monday continued searching for the missing in several parts of Japan hit by Typhoon Talas. Officials say floods and landslides are hampering rescue efforts. Floods and landslides swept away houses […]
Libyan Negotiations for Bin Walid Fail: Anti-Gadhafi Representative
Posted September 4th, 2011 at 3:20 pm (UTC-5)
A spokesman for Libya’s anti-Gadhafi fighters says negotiations aimed at peacefully ending a standoff at one of the remaining strongholds of former leader Moammar Gadhafi have failed. Negotiator Abdullah Kanshil told reporters Sunday that talks about the surrender of Bani Walid broke down after those loyal to Mr. Gadhafi insisted that anti-Gadhafi fighters enter the […]
Afghan Taliban Releases 4 Kidnapped Turkish Engineers
Posted September 4th, 2011 at 2:30 pm (UTC-5)
Afghanistan’s Taliban movement has released four Turkish engineers who were kidnapped last December in the eastern province of Paktia. The insurgent group handed over the four Turks to the International Committee of the Red Cross in neighboring Ghazni province late Saturday into early Sunday. The Taliban said it freed the men as a humanitarian gesture […]
