Published: March 2, 2010
Cuba TV report denies gov't let hunger striker die
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HAVANA, Cuba – Cuba devoted nearly a third of its official newscast Monday night to denying that state doctors purposely let a jailed dissident die from a hunger strike.
It claimed the case, which sparked an international outcry, began because the victim wanted television and other comforts in his prison cell.
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died Feb. 23 [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Under blockade, coastal Gaza now a fish importer
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Under a sea blockade, the coastal Gaza Strip has now become a seafood importer. Its desperate fishermen — cut off from plentiful fishing grounds by Israeli patrol boats — have turned to sneaking into Egyptian waters in tiny motorboats to buy their catch and bring it home.
Others bring in fish [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tsunami swept away fleeing bus full of retirees
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PELLUHUE, Chile – The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile’s powerful earthquake struck.
They didn’t make it. The tsunami came in three waves, surging 200 meters (yards) into this Pacific Ocean resort town and dragging away the bus they’d piled into, [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Chile quake death toll hits 708 as rescue ramps up
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CONCEPCION, Chile – Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile’s shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting. The death toll climbed to 708 in one of the biggest earthquakes in centuries.
In the hard-hit city of Concepcion, firefighters pulling survivors from [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Some scientists defend tsunami warnings
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HONOLULU – The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that “urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.”
But the devastating tidal surge predicted after Chile’s magnitude 8.8-earthquake for areas far from [...]
Published: March 1, 2010
Man, daughter fall 13 floors in Chile quake
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CONCEPCION, Chile – When their 13th-floor apartment began to shake, Alberto Rozas pulled his 7-year-old daughter into the bathroom doorway and waited for it to stop.
Instead, they fell.
Plummeting as their brand-new apartment building toppled like a felled tree, they hugged each other all the way down.
Rozas had no idea which way was up until he [...]
Published: February 27, 2010
Colombia court blocks Uribe from seeking 3rd term
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BOGOTA – Colombia’s Constitutional Court shut the door Friday on President Alvaro Uribe’s aspirations for a third straight term, ruling unconstitutional a law that would have let voters decide in a referendum whether he could run again.
The high court’s 7-2 decision is not subject to appeal.
The court ruled on a law passed by Congress that [...]
Published: February 27, 2010
Philippines: Suspected Abu Sayyaf attack kills 11
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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines – Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants raided a village in the southern Philippines early Saturday, killing 11 people in the country’s worst militant attack on civilians in nine years.
Gunmen believed to be members of the extremist Abu Sayyaf group and backed by other armed groups attacked the militia detachment in the center of the village [...]
Published: February 22, 2010
Finally, a glimmer of hope for US in Afghan war
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KABUL – The arrests of key Taliban leaders in Pakistan and slow but steady progress on the battlefield of Helmand province have offered the first flicker of hope in years that the U.S. and its allies may be able to check the rise of an insurgency that seemed unstoppable only a few months ago.
That’s a [...]
Published: February 22, 2010
Striking Lufthansa pilots to suspend their walkout
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FRANKFURT – Lufthansa and its pilots are set to return to the cockpit after the German airline and a key union agreed to halt a four-day strike that disrupted travelers and was poised to go on through Friday.
The four-day walkout ended less than 24 hours after it began after two hours in a Frankfurt labor [...]
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