Venezuela’s government says Chavez is conscious and responding to treatment...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s government says President Hugo Chavez is conscious and responding to treatment for a respiratory infection at a Cuban hospital. Information Minister Ernesto Villegas...
View ArticleThe newly-appointed Georgian Ambassador to Costa Rica has presented copies...
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the United States of Mexico, Mr. Malkhaz Mikeladze, paid an official visit to the Republic of Costa Rica from the 1st to the 3rd of...
View ArticlePhilippines begins 150-day nationwide gun ban to prevent violence in May...
MANILA, Philippines — A nationwide 150-day ban on the carrying of firearms outside residences in the Philippines has begun to prevent violence ahead of May 13 congressional and local elections....
View ArticleVenezuela opposition to challenge court ruling on Chavez swearing-in before...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan opposition politicians say they’re preparing to present a case before a regional human rights court to challenge a Supreme Court decision that permits the indefinite...
View ArticleUS sailor arrested in trespassing in Japan despite curfew amid anger over...
TOKYO — Japanese police have arrested a U.S. sailor for alleged trespassing near Tokyo during a nighttime curfew imposed after recent crimes linked to American servicemen. Kanagawa police said Richard...
View ArticleIraq officials: Insurgent attacks kill 4, including 7-year-old boy
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say insurgent attacks in separate parts of the country have killed four people including a 7-year-old boy and wounded five others. Police officials say that the first attack...
View ArticleSyrian warplanes hit suburbs of Damascus as regime tries to counter rebel...
BEIRUT — Activists say Syrian fighter jets have bombed Damascus suburbs as part of a government offensive to dislodge rebels from strategic areas around the capital. The Britain-based Syrian...
View ArticleInfluential Israeli rabbi released from hospital, easing political concerns...
JERUSALEM — An Israeli religious party says its powerful spiritual leader has been released from hospital after a minor stroke, easing concerns his health could affect the party’s fortunes ahead of...
View ArticleTens of thousands take to Taipei streets to protest Taiwan’s China-friendly...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators have taken to the streets of Taipei to protest the policies of Taiwan’s China-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou. Sunday’s demonstration is...
View ArticlePakistani Shiites continue protest, blocking road with coffins as they await...
QUETTA, Pakistan — Thousands of Shiites are continuing to protest for a third day in southwestern Pakistan, pressing their demands for greater security by blocking a main road with dozens of coffins...
View Article115-year-old Japanese woman dies less than a month after becoming world’s...
TOKYO — A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world’s oldest living female just last month has died at 115. Koto Okubo died Saturday at a nursing home in Kawasaki City,...
View ArticleFrench rally against gay marriage brings hundreds of thousands to Paris
PARIS — Hundreds of thousands of protesters are mobilizing against the French president’s plan to legalize gay marriage, streaming into Paris by bus, car and specially reserved high-speed train....
View ArticleThousands to march through Moscow to protest Russia’s ban on American...
MOSCOW — Thousands of people are gathering in central Moscow for a protest against Russia’s new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children. They are carrying posters of President Vladimir...
View ArticlePeople stay indoors as air pollution in notoriously polluted Beijing goes...
BEIJING — People refused to venture outdoors and buildings disappeared into Beijing’s murky skyline as the capital’s air quality went off the index. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring...
View ArticleAfghan government: 7 civilians killed by blast while digging through rubble...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials say an explosion has killed seven civilians as they tried to pull bodies of insurgents killed from the rubble of a village mosque after a night raid by NATO and...
View ArticleCivilians arm themselves to police 2 Mexican towns, leading officials to...
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Several hundred civilians have taken up arms in two towns in a southwestern Mexico state and are arresting people suspected of crimes and imposing a curfew, leading authorities to...
View ArticleMother of Indian rape victim calls for death penalty for all suspects
NEW DELHI — The mother of a 23-year-old student who died after being brutally gang-raped in a moving bus in the Indian capital says all six suspects, including one believed to be a juvenile, deserve...
View ArticleArsonists attack throw firebomb at house of Greek government spokesman’s...
ATHENS, Greece — Police say arsonists have attacked the home of the brother of government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou with a firebomb. The arsonists broke down the door with a sledgehammer and threw a...
View ArticleReport: Iran confiscates over a ton of narcotics a day
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s media are reporting that police confiscate over a ton of narcotics a day from smugglers. Gen. Ali Moayedi, head of Iran’s anti-narcotics police, is quoted by newspapers Sunday as...
View ArticleEgyptian court grants Hosni Mubarak’s appeal of his life sentence, orders...
CAIRO — An Egyptian court has granted Hosni Mubarak’s appeal of his life sentence, ordering a retrial of the ousted president. Mubarak was convicted and sentenced to life in June for failing to...
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