Published: June 8, 2010
Israel military investigating deadly flotilla raid
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JERUSALEM – Israel’s military said it will have its own experts examine what caused a naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla to turn deadly, while nations led by Turkey condemned the operation and intensified demands for an international investigation.
Turkey’s president released a statement Tuesday from 21 Asian countries meeting at a security summit that said [...]
Published: June 8, 2010
Police: Dutchman confesses to killing Lima woman
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LIMA, Peru – Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room, a police spokesman said.
Peru’s chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told The Associated Press that Van der Sloot admitted under [...]
Published: June 8, 2010
Sex abuse crisis gives new momentum to dissidents
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ROME – The clerical sex abuse crisis is energizing Roman Catholic dissidents who want to open up the priesthood to women and ditch celibacy requirements.
They marched on Rome Tuesday even as Pope Benedict XVI called on priests to converge on the Vatican to cap a yearlong celebration of the priesthood. And in a sign of [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
Turkey honors 8 slain activists, including US teen
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ISTANBUL – Mourners hoisted coffins over their heads Thursday to cheers of “God is great!” as they honored activists slain during an Israeli commando raid, and the father of the lone American killed praised his teenage son as being a martyr for a just cause.
The joint funeral in Istanbul came as Israel rejected demands for [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
8 Afghan civilians killed in fighting, bombing
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KABUL, Afghanistan – A clash between Afghan forces and Taliban militants left four civilians dead in a southern district where a major NATO operation early this year was meant to reassert government control, a provincial official said Thursday.
Also, a roadside bombing in the same province killed four other civilians.
The clash happened early Wednesday after militants [...]
Published: June 3, 2010
UK police look for motive in shooting spree
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WHITEHAVEN, England – British detectives investigated Thursday whether financial troubles or a family feud triggered a taxi driver’s murderous rampage across a tranquil part of rural England, which left 12 people dead and 11 wounded.
More than 100 detectives were scrutinizing why Derrick Bird, 52, went on a three-hour shooting spree in the northwestern county of [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade
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JERUSALEM – Pro-Palestinian activists sent another boat to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Egypt declared it was temporarily opening a crossing into the Palestinian territory after a raid on an aid flotilla that ended with Israeli soldiers killing nine activists.
The raid provoked ferocious international condemnation of Israel, raised questions at [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
TS Agatha deaths rise to 179 in Central America
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GUATEMALA CITY – Rural villagers used hoes and pick axes to hunt for victims of landslides that have killed at least 179 people in Central America while officials in Guatemala’s capital tried to cope with a vast sinkhole that swallowed a clothing factory.
Thousands remained homeless and dozens still missing following the season’s first tropical storm. [...]
Published: June 1, 2010
Taliban dismiss Afghan peace meet before it starts
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KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban on Tuesday dismissed this week’s national peace conference in Afghanistan even before it had begun, threatening death to the 1,600 delegates in cassette messages distributed by the insurgent leadership.
The three-day meeting, which begins Wednesday in a giant tent at Kabul Polytechnic University, will discuss how to reconcile with the fighters [...]
Published: May 28, 2010
Suspected sabotage derails train in India; 71 dead
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SARDIHA, India – Suspected Maoist rebels derailed an overnight passenger train Friday in eastern India, triggering a crash with an oncoming cargo train that killed at least 71 people and injured about 200 more, officials said.
Survivors described a night of screaming and chaos after the derailment and said it took rescuers more than three hours [...]
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