| Arab nations want to end revolt Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:10 PM PDT BEIRUT -- Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the ... |
| London riots get bigger Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:11 PM PDT LONDON -- A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country’s worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. In ... |
| Troops killed in Afghanistan were targeting Taliban leade Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:17 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan -- The 30 U.S. troops and eight Afghans who died in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan were on a mission targeting a Taliban leader when an insurgent with a rocket-propelled grenade reportedly fired on the chopper and shot i ... |
| Somalis starving for help Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:17 PM PDT DADAAB, Kenya -- Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President J ... |
| Asia to keep buying US debt despite downgrade Posted: 09 Aug 2011 02:09 AM PDT BEIJING -- China and other governments have little choice but to keep buying U.S. Treasury debt to store swelling foreign reserves even after Washington's credit rating was cut by Standard & Poor's.Some governments such as Germany and Australia h ... |
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