Ethiopian troops killed 15 rebels in the country's restive east and arrested two Swedish journalists who were with them, an Ethiopian official said yesterday.
Allies of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn have said he could make a political comeback in France now that he has been freed from house arrest in the US.
CHISINAU (AP):Six people have been detained for smuggling an unspecified amount of the form of uranium that can be used to make a nuclear weapon, an official reported yesterday.Interior Ministry official Vitalie Briceag said the uranium-235 was brought...
QUITO (AP):A court in Ecuador has convicted six police officers of security crimes for taking part in a protest in which the president was briefly detained.The officers include the former chief of security ...
KAMPALA (AP):Ugandan officials say 22 students and a teacher died after lightning struck their school in the country's midwest.Local police spokeswoman Zura Ganyana said yesterday that 51 students between the ages of 7 and 16 were injured Tuesday.
SEOUL (AP):North Korea's military vowed yesterday to retaliate for anti-Pyongyang signs posted at front-line South Korean army units, as rare talks between the rivals on a stalled joint tourism project broke down.North Korea also has been releasing...
MBABANE (AP):Cash-strapped Swazi-land's state hospitals have only two months' supplies of AIDS drugs, the country's health minister has told parliament in an assessment that AIDS patients and activists took as a death sentence.State media yesterday...
WASHINGTON (AP): Clean, cook, chill, separate. That's the message of a new United States government campaign to raise awareness of safe food handling in the wake of a European E. coli outbreak that has killed almost 50 people...
CARACAS (AP):Venezuelan authorities have arrested a prison warden for allegedly supplying arms and explosives to inmates staging deadly riots over the past 11 days.Warden Luis Aranguren was arrested Friday along with National Guard Captain Gamalier José...
MUMBAI (AP):Police have arrested seven suspects in the murder of a Mumbai crime reporter, including four people who allegedly gunned down the reporter and then escaped on motorcycles, officials said yesterday.A court ordered yesterday that all seven...
MEXICO CITY (AP): A priest says armed men stormed a northbound train and kidnapped at least 80 illegal Central American migrants.Alejandro Solalinde runs a migrant shelter in the state of Oaxaca.
Taipei (AP):Taiwan's Supreme Court has reduced former President Chen Shui-bian's prison sentence from 12 to 11 years in a bribery case and sent three of his other graft convictions back to a lower court for review.
HONG KONG (AP):Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries, an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP): A United States diplomatic cable released by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks says former Chinese Finance Minster Jin Renqing was fired in 2007 for having a sexual relationship with a suspected Taiwanese spy.The reported affair...
