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| | | | |  Afghan officials say gunmen have shot and killed a senior member of the Afghan peace council, dealing the latest blow to peace negotiations. Authorities say an unidentified gunman in a car opened fire on Arsala Rahmani Sunday morning in Kabul as he was on his way to work. Rahmani was a former Taliban official who became a top member of the Afghan peace council set up by President Hamid Karzai to negotiate a peaceful end to more than 10 years of war. He served as deputy minister ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Tens of thousands of Spaniards protested in the streets of cities across Spain Saturday, rising against the country's austerity measures in a run-up to the one-year anniversary of the start of a movement that spread across the region. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol plaza, the birthplace of the protests against economic injustice. Tens of thousands more demonstrated in Barcelona, with smaller protests in other cities. The protesters ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The European Union and the United States have endorsed Algeria's parliamentary elections as an important step toward reform, even as some opposition forces expressed suspicion that the vote was fraudulent. The head of the EU observer team there, Jose Salafranca, criticized Algeria Saturday for not giving foreign observers free access to the nationwide electoral roll. He said officials running the elections had pledged more transparency. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Yemeni officials say at least 16 militants and 12 government soldiers were killed Sunday as troops backed by warplanes and heavy artillery launched a major offensive to retake the al-Qaida-held southern city of Zinjibar. The attacks pounded areas of Ayban province including the city of Jaar, where al-Qaida has maintained control since March 2011. If the military can reclaim Jaar, it will have surrounded Zinjibar, the provincial capital. ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  HOLLYWOOD - A Soap Opera from the 1960s gets a makeover in director Tim Burton's new horror-comedy Dark Shadows features his favorite lead actor, Johnny Depp. In the 1770s, a curse turned Barnabas into a vampire. In 1972, a construction crew digs up his coffin and the denizen of the dark finds his way back to what remains of the Collins estate. His cousin Elizabeth, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, thinks he can restore the Collins line to its former greatness. ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | NATO says two men wearing Afghan police uniforms have turned their weapons on coalition troops in southern Helmand province, leaving two service members dead. A NATO statement said the incident took place Saturday. It said one of the shooters was killed when coalition forces returned fire, while the second managed to escape and was being pursued. NATO did not release the nationalities of the victims, but the French news agency cited Afghan sources as saying the ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home from Cuba late Friday following 11 days of cancer treatment, calling his latest radiation therapy a success. After arriving in Caracas, the 57-year-old socialist leader said he must rigorously follow medical advice in coming days in order to continue recuperating. Chavez began treatments in March following operations in February and last June to remove tumors from his pelvic area. President Chavez has yet to ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Mitt Romney, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee, drew rousing support Saturday at a conservative Christian university as he defended traditional marriage between a man and a woman. Romney, often viewed with skepticism by the most conservative ranks of the Republican party, stressed the importance of personal faith and commitment to families in a speech to the graduating class at Liberty University in the eastern U.S. state of Virginia. "Marriage is a ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The United Nations is reporting that malaria has dropped from being the leading cause of death among refugees living along the Sudan border. Among the locations where the new malaria-reducing strategies are being employed is the Kakuma Camp for Sudanese refugees in northern Kenya. Not long ago, malaria killed more Sudanese refugees than any other disease. But now, while it is still deadly, the U.N. reports it is only the fifth leading cause of death among the estimated 38,000 Sudanese ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  ABUJA, Nigeria - The international aid group Doctors Without Borders says at least 4,000 children are suffering from lead poisoning as a result of artisanal gold mining in Zamfara State in Nigeria. The group says emergency federal funds are needed to prevent many of these children from dying. Activists say the funding has been approved, but none of it has been made available to help the people in Zamfara. Zamfara State is literally sitting on a gold mine. Nigeria's ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | BRONX, NY - What's it like to be stuck between worlds - to feel like you're neither one thing nor another? That's the situation Pete Pin finds himself in. Pin, a Cambodian-American photographer based in New York, is currently working on a long-term project to chronicle the lives of Cambodians in America. Called Displaced , the project, he says, is an exploration of psychological disconnection and the legacy of the Khmer Rouge. At 30, Pin is on a quest. The ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | The United States is the only country to have qualified the maximum of 16 fencers for the London Olympic Games that begin in late July. U.S. fencers are preparing for the competition not only physically, but mentally and emotionally. Nzingha Prescod trains at the Fencers Club in New York City. The Columbia University student began fencing at the age of nine, and is trying to contain her excitement about going to the Olympics. "I don't think I want to ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  International surfing officials and the Guinness Book of World records have officially confirmed a giant wave caught by a U.S. surfer off the coast of Portugal last November was the biggest wave ever ridden. The officials have awarded Hawaiian surfer Garret McNamara the Billabong Global Big Wave Awards prize after reviewing the feat - riding a wave that measured 23.7 meters high. The 44-year-old surfer was dragged out to the wave on a tow rope, a type of jet ski. ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Security officials in Pakistan say a roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle killed one police officer and wounded at least 12 other people Saturday in the northwest city of Peshawar. A deputy police superintendent told reporters that the attack occurred as a police vehicle was escorting a van carrying prisoners from a local police station. The officer said the bomb was detonated as the two vehicles reached an overpass. He said the bomb disposal squad reported the ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  t least seven people were killed in anti-government-related unrest across Syria Saturday, as more United Nations observers arrived in the country. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government shelling and security force raids left at least three civilians dead, while the government said four security force members were killed near the capital, Damascus. It blamed "armed terrorists" for the attacks. Video of march ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Greece's president has summoned leaders of the country's fractious political parties to a Sunday meeting in a last-ditch effort to form a new coalition government. Greek President Karolos Papoulias said Saturday he would meet with conservative leader Antonis Samaras, radical left chief Alexis Tsipras and socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos after all three failed to gather enough support to create a new government. Mr. Papoulias' office also said he would meet separately ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Search teams in Indonesia have begun retrieving the bodies of passengers who were on a jetliner that slammed into the side of a volcano Wednesday but the cause of the crash remains a mystery. Family members of victims gathered at a Jakarta hospital on Saturday as remains of victims arrived in body bags. Investigators believe there were no survivors after the Russian-made jet carrying at least 45 passengers crashed into the nearly vertical cliff of Mount Salak. Officials say the ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  As repeated bombing attacks hit Syria, concerns are rising that al-Qaida terrorists may be opening a dangerous new chapter in a conflict that has killed thousands of people. Protesters flee gunfire in the Syrian town of Aleppo. And near Damascus, amateur video shows United Nations peace monitors edging their vans through anti-government protesters. The protests came after massive car bombs Thursday killed more than 50 people. The bombs raise fears that the Syrian conflict ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Greek political leaders have failed to form a coalition that would resolve a political impasse and avert the need for new elections. Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos made the announcement Friday after the Radical Left Coalition, or Syriza, refused to join the Socialists and conservatives due to a disagreement on the country's economic austerity program. The Socialist and conservative New Democracy parties have proposed a gradual phasing out of the tough measures ... | | | | | |
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