PARIS — Four people were found shot to death on a forest road in the French Alps on Wednesday, their bodies left in and near a car with British license plates, authorities said. A girl discovered at the site with bullet wounds was hospitalized. Police combed the wooded hills around the village of Chevaline into [...]
CANGREJAL, Costa Rica — A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and neighboring countries Wednesday, sending panicked people into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami alert, but causing little damage. Authorities reported one confirmed death. “When we felt the earthquake, we held onto each other because we kept falling,” said Rosa Pichardo, 45, who [...]
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she will meet next week’s deadline to report to Congress on whether the Haqqani network should be designated as a terrorist organization. As she praised the contributions of Australia and New Zealand to the international military mission in Afghanistan, Clinton said she [...]
KABUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) – An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban. A 12-year-old boy was kidnapped and killed in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, [...]
JERUSALEM, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Israel is facing growing international pressure not to attack Iran unilaterally, with the United States in particular making clear its firm opposition to any such strike. Recent rhetoric by Israeli leaders that time is running out to halt Iran’s contested nuclear programme has raised concern that military action might be [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two suicide attackers, one driving a fuel tanker, blew themselves up near a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, officials said. The attack around dawn in the town of Sayed Abad in Wardak province, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Kabul, served as a reminder that [...]
GUATEMALA CITY — Human Rights activists in Guatemala said Friday that a joint anti-drug operation between U.S. Marines and the nation’s army threatens to revive memories of rights abuses during Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war. A team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala’s western coast this week as part of a joint agreement to catch [...]
JERUSALEM — Almost a decade after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in a Gaza Strip conflict zone, Rachel Corrie’s parents are preparing for a judge’s ruling in their high-profile civil lawsuit against the military. They hope Tuesday’s court decision will conclude a [...]
MOSCOW — Two members of the punk band Pussy Riot have fled Russia to avoid prosecution for a protest against Vladimir Putin that sent three of their band mates to prison, the group said Sunday. Five members of the feminist group took part in a provocative performance inside Moscow’s main cathedral in February to protest [...]
MEXICO CITY — A split in the leadership of Mexico’s violent Zetas cartel has led to the rise of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, a man so feared that one rival has called for a grand alliance to confront a gang chief blamed for a new round of bloodshed in the country’s once relatively tranquil central [...]
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