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Last Updated: November 20 2009, 5:51 PM
UN human rights committee votes to censure Iran
A United Nations committee has approved a Canadian-led resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of its disputed presidential elections.
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Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:34 PM
1 in 10 Americans deliquent in paying mortgage
New statistics indicate one in 10 American homeowners is now delinquent by at least one mortgage payment and one in seven is now either delinquent or in foreclosure.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:12 PM
Hundreds rescued from U.K. flooding
Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, forcing hundreds to evacuate.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 8:47 AM
Suicide bomb kills 16 people in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on motorcycle killed 16 people and wounded 23 others on Friday in the city of Farah in western Afghanistan.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:03 AM
Peru gang accused of killing to sell human fat
Three members of a Peruvian gang have confessed to killing people and draining the fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, according to police officials.
Last Updated: November 21 2009, 12:33 AM
China says 23 dead, 90 trapped in mine explosion in country's north
BEIJING - A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 23 people and trapping another 90 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said.
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Last Updated: November 20 2009, 11:09 PM
US police say thieves killed 5 in rural Arkansas for expensive wheel rims, televisions
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions, court documents show.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 11:08 PM
California judge: Enough evidence to try late porn mogul's son in ex-girlfriend's death
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - The son of a late San Francisco pornography mogul will stand trial on accusations he crushed his ex-girlfriend's skull with a baseball bat.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:44 PM
Teenager pleads guilty to murdering US Border Patrol agent during robbery try
SAN DIEGO - A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:40 PM
Resort island Saipan reeling after gunman opens fire; 2 children among dead
After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and witness accounts.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 7:44 AM
U.S. gov't may say recession over, but not job losses
WASHINGTON — It's about to become official: The recession is over -- but not the pain.
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Last Updated: October 27 2009, 10:11 AM
Japan warship collides with commercial vessel
TOKYO — A Japanese navy destroyer has collided with a commercial vessel off southern Japan, starting fires on both ships and injuring three crew members, defense officials said Tuesday.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 10:42 AM
October deadliest month in Afghan war for U.S. troops
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. forces say eight American troops have been killed in multiple bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan. The deaths make October the deadliest month of the war for American troops since it began in 2001.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 11:18 AM
2 U.S. men charged in alleged Danish paper terror plot
CHICAGO — Prosecutors in Chicago have charged two men in connection with the planning of terrorist acts against overseas targets, including a Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 6:05 AM
Al Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility for Iraq bombings
BAGHDAD — An al Qaeda linked group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people as Iraq's political leadership on Tuesday stepped up efforts to agree on new voting guidelines ahead of January elections.
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Last Updated: November 20 2009, 11:07 AM
British lawyer appointed for Karadzic war crimes trial
A British lawyer has been appointed the stand-in counsel for Radovan Karadzic at his war crimes trial in The Hague.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 5:21 PM
Bomb plot ringleader sentenced to 13 years
The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices has been sentenced to 13½ years in prison.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 2:06 PM
Afghan detainee issue makes news in China
Allegations that detainees in Afghanistan transferred by Canadians were likely tortured made headlines in China on Thursday, just weeks before Prime Minister Stephen Harper's first visit to the economic superpower.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 10:56 AM
Canada backs Karzai on inauguration day
Canada's Conservative government joined several other countries in backing Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he was sworn in for a second term on Thursday.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 11:22 AM
Computer glitch disrupts U.S. flights
Travellers in the U.S. were scrambling to sort out airport departures and connections after a computer glitch led to the cancellation and delay of many flights.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 3:28 PM
Proposed energy corridor step closer
The plan to put an energy corridor through Maine cleared a hurdle Wednesday.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 4:29 PM
British woman finds her attacker on Facebook
A 20-year-old British woman who was attacked at a bar tracked down her assailant on Facebook after police proved to be of little help.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 1:20 PM
Atlantis astronauts on 1st spacewalk
Astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis began their first of three scheduled spacewalks Thursday morning.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 9:22 AM
Russian court extends ban on death penalty
Russia's Constitutional Court has ruled that the government must extend a moratorium on the death penalty until the nation moves to fully ban executions.
Last Updated: November 19 2009, 7:05 PM
Ménard is new commander in Afghanistan
There is a new man in charge of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, as Brig.-Gen. Daniel Ménard took over on Thursday.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:39 PM
US court rules against Oregon school teacher who wants to take her gun to class
MEDFORD, Ore. - The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a request by a high school English teacher to carry a handgun at school, the latest legal setback for the teacher who says she needs the gun for protection from her former husband.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 9:37 PM
Chinese activist who tried to meet Obama was detained and questioned twice
WASHINGTON - A leading Chinese human rights lawyer who tried unsuccessfully to meet with President Barack Obama in Beijing this week was detained and interrogated twice during Obama's visit to China, a U.S. lawmaker and an American-based Chinese activist said.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 9:05 PM
Floods batter UK's Lake District, policeman dies, hundreds rescued; Ireland also hard hit
Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 8:53 PM
Pro-government mob hits, shouts down husband of top Cuban dissident blogger
HAVANA, Cuba - The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 8:26 PM
Army relents, will allow media at Palin event despite concerns about anti-Obama politics
RALEIGH, N.C. - The U.S. Army has reversed its position and now says it will open former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media despite fears the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 7:58 PM
Italian prosecutor: US student 'harboured hatred' for Briton; killed her in sex game
PERUGIA, Italy - An American student accused of fatally stabbing her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor contended Friday in closing arguments at her murder trial.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 7:45 PM
US senator says Fort Hood probe may reveal more troubling emails involving alleged shooter
WASHINGTON - There may be additional emails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 7:17 PM
Suburban Denver billboard links Obama with jihadists
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 6:52 PM
Retired State Department worker and wife plead guilty to plotting to spy for Cuba
WASHINGTON - A retired State Department worker and his wife, accused of a decadeslong plot to spy for Cuba, pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him in jail for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom after six years.
Last Updated: November 20 2009, 6:51 PM
UN children's convention at 20: Indian boy embodies the plight of millions of downtrodden kids
NEW DELHI - Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 6:12 AM
Two Tibetans executed in China over riots last year
BEIJING — Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known executions for the violence, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 6:20 AM
Immigrant boat sinks in Greece, at least 8 drown
ATHENS, Greece — Four adults and at least four children drowned in the eastern Aegean Tuesday when a small boat carrying 18 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan hit rocks and sank, Greek authorities said.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 7:31 AM
Israel withholds water from Palestinians: Amnesty
JERUSALEM —
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 8:51 AM
42 militants killed as Pakistan presses offensive
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army pushed deeper into a Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border Tuesday, claiming to have killed 42 militants in the latest stage of an offensive against extremists blamed for relentless attacks in recent weeks .
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 6:20 AM
Wayward pilots were focused on laptops, not cockpit
WASHINGTON — Two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew 240 kilometres past their destination because they were focused on laptop computers instead of cockpit displays may have opened a new avenue of concern for safety regulators -- distracting personal electronic devices on the flight deck.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 8:18 AM
Nazi hit man goes on trial in Germany
BERLIN — Heinrich Boere has admitted to gunning down three men as part of a Waffen SS death squad -- civilians killed in retribution for partisan attacks in Holland as the tide of World War II turned against the Nazis.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 7:44 AM
French fraud conviction for Church of Scientology
PARIS — A Paris court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than C600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday but stopped short of banning the group as prosecutors had demanded.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 7:44 AM
Police on high alert at disputed Jerusalem shrine
JERUSALEM — Hundreds of Israeli police patrolled Jerusalem's most volatile holy site on Monday, a day after fierce clashes with Palestinian protesters turned the quiet hilltop compound into a battleground.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 7:44 AM
British hacker given time to appeal extradition to U.S.
LONDON — Britain's Home Office says a hacker has two weeks to appeal against his planned extradition to the United States to face charges of breaking into military computers.
Last Updated: October 27 2009, 7:44 AM
2 helicopter crashes kill 14 Americans in Afghanistan
Fourteen Americans were killed in helicopter accidents in Afghanistan on Monday, marking one of the deadliest days since the U.S. entered the fight.
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Last Updated: November 20 2009, 11:22 AM
Floods batter Britain's Lake District, policeman feared dead; Ireland also hard hit
Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more as floods on Friday swamped northern England's picturesque Lake District. One police officer died after a bridge was swept away by the surging waters.
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Last Updated: November 10 2009, 6:57 PM
World Food Program: 10,000 Salvadoran flood victims need urgent food assistance
VERAPAZ, El Salvador - At least 10,000 Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid after floods and mudslides destroyed huge swaths of crops during harvest season, the U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday.
Last Updated: November 10 2009, 5:13 PM
Landslide triggered by heavy rains kills 42 in southern India
NEW DELHI - A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 42 people, an official said Tuesday.
Last Updated: November 10 2009, 7:03 AM
Weather-tested Gulf Coast residents stay put as tropical storm Ida approaches
GULF SHORES, Ala. - Weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents refused to retreat from a rare late-season tropical storm that weakened as it crept toward shore Tuesday, bringing heavy rain, stiff winds and some flooding.
Last Updated: November 9 2009, 12:05 PM
Rescuers search for survivors in town covered by mudslide; 124 dead across El Salvador
VERAPAZ, El Salvador - Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 124 people in El Salvador.
Last Updated: November 9 2009, 4:01 AM
Series of rain-triggered landslides bury houses, kill 14 on Indonesia's Sulawesi island
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.
Last Updated: November 9 2009, 1:59 AM
Powerful quake in central Indonesia kills two, hurts dozens
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong undersea earthquake killed two people and damaged buildings on the remote island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, officials said Monday.
Last Updated: November 8 2009, 10:47 PM
2 dead, 5,000 evacuated as annual monsoon flash floods hit northern Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed two people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes in northern Malaysia, officials said Monday.
Last Updated: November 7 2009, 6:41 PM
Warnings issued in Mexico, Cuba as Tropical Storm Ida strengthens over Caribbean
CANCUN, Mexico - Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.
Last Updated: November 6 2009, 7:25 PM
Ida drenches Central America, forecasters say it might regain force, head toward US
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the United States.