President Barack Obama has accused some members of Congress of focusing on next year’s elections, instead of passing legislation to help the American people. The president spoke at a rural economic forum in the state of Iowa Tuesday on the second day of a three-day bus tour of the U.S. midwest. In an apparent reference […]
Obama Calls on US Lawmakers to Focus on American People
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 3:00 pm (UTC-5)
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Israel Charges Al-Jazeera Journalist with Belonging to Hamas
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 2:40 pm (UTC-5)
Israel is holding a journalist for the al-Jazeera television network on charges that he belongs to the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Al-Jazeera’s Kabul bureau chief Samer Allawi appeared before an Israeli military judge Tuesday and was told of the accusations. He denied the charges. Al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language network says Israeli authorities arrested Allawi on August 10 […]
Obama Calls on US Lawmakers to Focus on American People
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 2:25 pm (UTC-5)
President Barack Obama has accused some members of Congress of focusing on next year’s elections, instead of passing legislation to help the American people. The president spoke at a rural economic forum in the state of Iowa Tuesday on the second day of a three-day bus tour of the U.S. midwest. In an apparent reference […]
Female Afghan Government Worker Gunned Down in South
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 1:05 pm (UTC-5)
Afghan officials say a female provincial government worker has been gunned down outside her home in the southern city of Kandahar. A government spokesman says the woman, Rabia Sadat, was shot and killed by a gunman on a motorcycle as she walked to her car on Tuesday morning. Her driver was wounded in the attack. […]
European Economic Growth Slows Markedly
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 11:50 am (UTC-5)
Economic growth slowed markedly in the April-to-June period in the 17-nation European bloc that employs the common euro currency, stoking new fears of another global recession. The European Union reported Tuesday that the economy in the euro region grew just two-tenths of one percent in the second quarter, a quarter of the rate in the […]
Palestinian President to Submit Statehood Proposal to U.N. Chief
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 10:45 am (UTC-5)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says an application for Palestinian statehood will be submitted to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in September. Mr. Abbas made the announcement in Sarajevo Tuesday as he completed a trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he pressed government officials to support a Palestinian bid for statehood. He planned to travel on to Lebanon, […]
US Stocks Fall in Early Tuesday Trading
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 10:10 am (UTC-5)
U.S. stock indexes fell in early trading Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is off seven-tenths of one percent, while the broader S&P 500 fell nine-tenths of a point. The NASDAQ dropped one percent. European markets were also down in afternoon trading. London’s Financial Times 100 index is down seven-tenths of a percent, the CAC-40 […]
India Detains Anti-Corruption Activist Ahead of Planned Hunger Strike
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 9:05 am (UTC-5)
Indian police have arrested a prominent social activist just hours before he was preparing to push ahead with a public hunger strike to demand tougher anti-corruption legislation. Anna Hazare was detained by plain-clothes police officers early Tuesday at a New Delhi apartment as he prepared to lead a procession to a public park to begin […]
Death Toll Mounts As Syria Pounds Coastal City
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 8:40 am (UTC-5)
Syrian security forces are pounding the port city of Latakia for a fourth straight day as part of the government’s widening crackdown on dissent. Activists and residents say at least five people were killed Tuesday in Latakia. They say security forces have killed at least 35 people in the city since Saturday. A U.N. agency […]
US: Gadhafi Fires First Scud Missile of Conflict
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 8:25 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. military official says Libyan government forces have fired a scud missile for the first time in their conflict with anti-government rebels. The official, who asked not to be named, said the missile landed in the desert about 80 kilometers outside Brega. Libyan forces and the rebels have battled over the strategic oil port […]
