Indian immigrants cross through Mexico Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT LOS FRESNOS -- Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two l ... |
N. Koreans fail World Cup tests Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:47 PM PDT FRANKFURT, Germany -- North Korea officials blamed traditional musk deer gland medicine used after a lightening strike for five positive tests for steroids at the Women's World Cup, the biggest soccer doping scandal at a major tournament in 17 year ... |
Murdoch issues apology through ad campaign Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:07 PM PDT LONDON -- "We are sorry" the full-page ad began Saturday, as Rupert Murdoch tried to halt a phone-hacking scandal that has claimed two of his top executives with a gesture of atonement and promises to right the wrongs committed by his now-shuttered ... |
Man in Afghan army uniform kills 1 Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:07 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- A man in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed a NATO service member Saturday, and the Taliban said the assailant was a sleeper agent who had infiltrated the Afghan military.Cases of foreign troops being attacked by rogue polic ... |
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Jerusalem parking lot Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:50 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) -- Police are preventing hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews from blocking a main street in protest against a Jerusalem municipal parking lot that is open on the Jewish Sabbath. Ultra-Orthodox activists have repeatedly staged protests s ... |
Georgia says photographer admits spied for Russia Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:47 PM PDT TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- The last of three photographers charged with espionage confessed Saturday to spying for Russia, Georgia's Interior Ministry said -- a claim that surprised the photographer's own lawyer. Ramaz Chinchaladze, lawyer for photo ... |
Brazil begins building four conventional submarines Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:46 PM PDT RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil has begun building four diesel-powered submarines as part of a 2008 agreement with France that includes the future construction of Latin America's first nuclear submarine. President Dilma Rousseff attended Saturday's ... |
Mideast roundup Posted: 16 Jul 2011 05:07 PM PDT Latest developments in Arab world's unrest: Syria Tens of thousands of Syrians shouting "We want freedom!" carry slain protesters through the streets as opposition figures meeting in Turkey call for a united front to bring down the 40-year ruling d ... |
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