Atlanta Journal-Constitution: World
- UN chief to raise human rights in Iran meetings
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 02:26 PMUNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to tell Iran's leaders on the sidelines of a summit of nonaligned nations that the human rights situation in the country is critical.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israel calls Iran the greatest nuclear threat
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:02 PMVIENNA - Muslim nations and Israel are heading for a confrontation at a 154-nation nuclear meeting next month over an Arab initiative to criticize Israel's secretive atomic program.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egypt: 32 migrants survive sinking boat
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:31 PMCAIRO - An Egyptian diplomat in Libya says 32 missing Egyptians survived a sinking boat and were smuggled into Libya.
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Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:51 PMPUNTO FIJO, Venezuela - Venezuela's biggest oil refinery remained offline Tuesday after firefighters extinguished a blaze that raged for more than three days following an explosion that killed at least 41 people.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Prominent Sufi dies in Dagestan suicide bombing
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:41 PMMAKHACHKALA, Russia - Thousands of mourners converged on a cemetery in Russia's republic of Dagestan on Tuesday night for the burial of a top Muslim religious leader who was killed in a suicide bombing hours earlier, Russian news agencies said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Argentines plan to shoot gulls to save the whales
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:41 PMBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Saving the whales is something Argentines take so seriously that authorities are planning to shoot seagulls that have developed a habit of attacking the huge marine mammals.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Goal of united Syrian opposition still elusive
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:51 PMAZAZ, Syria - In the foreign halls of power, the strategy is clear: Syria's opposition should unite to present an alternative to Bashar Assad's rule - a step France's president says would lead to diplomatic recognition.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cuba: Cholera outbreak over; 417 cases, 3 dead
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:06 AMHAVANA - Cuba says a cholera outbreak on the island has run its course with more than 10 days since the last confirmed case of the infectious disease.
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Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:26 AMBRUSSELS - Belgian court approves early release of accomplice in 1990s child rapes and killing spree.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gambia confirms execution of 9 death row inmates
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:51 AMBANJUL, Gambia - The government of Gambia has confirmed that it has executed nine inmates who were on death row, saying in a statement issued by the Ministry of Interior that the prisoners were killed by firing squad on Sunday.
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- 1 dead in Kenya riot over Muslim cleric's killing
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 02:51 PMMOMBASA, Kenya - Rioting in Kenya's second-largest city over the killing of a radical Islamic cleric extended into a second day Tuesday as police fought running battles with youths and one man died when a grenade was hurled into a truck carrying security forces.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Syrian opposition leader criticizes US
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:21 PMBEIRUT - The head of the main Syrian opposition group seeking to oust President Bashar Assad criticized U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Salvador quake destroys 45,000 rare turtle eggs
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:46 PMSAN SALVADOR - Wildlife authorities say a strong earthquake in the Pacific Ocean late Sunday destroyed more than 45,000 endangered sea turtle eggs on the coast of El Salvador.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 7 killed in attacks targeting Iraq security forces
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:56 PMBAGHDAD - Attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Tuesday killed seven people, including six soldiers, authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - France opens murder inquiry into Arafat's death
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:41 PMPARIS - French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, his widow's lawyer said, after she and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Italian police: Pope John Paul II relic stolen
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:41 PMROME - A trio of thieves aboard a train stole a priest's backpack containing a vial of the late Pope John Paul II's blood on Tuesday, but police recovered the relic a few hours later, authorities said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Correction: Britain-Mass Slaying story
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 09:56 AMLONDON - In a story Aug. 24 about a mass slaying on the British Channel Island of Jersey, The Associated Press erroneously reported the charge for which Damian Rzeszowski was convicted.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Arsonists blamed in major fire in central Spain
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:11 AMMADRID - Arson was suspected in a wildfire that forced the evacuation of 2,000 people just west of Madrid, while firefighters in Bosnia used military helicopters Tuesday to battle blazes there.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Markets stall as traders await US Fed chief speech
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:46 AMPARIS - Stock markets retreated Tuesday due to global worries about the impact of the eurozone debt crisis and as investors awaited a key speech by the U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israeli court rejects US activist's family lawsuit
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:56 AMHAIFA, Israel - An Israeli court ruled Tuesday that the military was not at fault for killing a U.S.
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- Court orders resumption of work on Brazilian dam
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 02:41 PMSAO PAULO - Construction on a mammoth hydroelectric dam in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rain forest resumed Tuesday, hours after the country's Supreme Court ordered a resumption of work on the project that has been strongly opposed by Indian groups and environmentalists.
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Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:31 PMBRUSSELS - Accomplice of child killer in Belgium leaves for convent after being freed from prison.
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Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 03:46 PMDUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian officials have made no secret about their massive ambitions for this week's nonaligned nations' gathering, with a guest list including leaders such as Egypt's president and U.N.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Libya interior minister withdraws resignation
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:01 PMTRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's interim interior minister returned to work Tuesday, two days after he resigned following attacks by hardliners on Sufi Muslim shrines as police watched, prompting harsh criticism from the country's newly elected parliament.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Typhoon pounds South Korea, smashes ships; 9 dead
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:41 PMSEOUL, South Korea - A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain Tuesday, killing nine and churning up rough seas that smashed two Chinese fishing ships into rocks and forced the coast guard to perform a daring rescue of survivors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AP Exclusive: Syria defectors live in secret camp
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 04:42 PMMAFRAQ, Jordan - In an isolated stretch of Jordanian desert, a heavily guarded, secret compound houses 1,200 senior police and army officers who defected from nearby Syria.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Typhoon pounds South Korea, smashes ships; 9 dead
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 09:46 AMSEOUL, South Korea - A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain Tuesday, killing nine and churning up rough seas that smashed two Chinese fishing ships into rocks and forced the coast guard to perform a daring rescue of survivors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - European court nixes Italy embryo screening ban
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:16 AMROME - The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italy's ban on screening embryos for disease before they are implanted in a womb has violated the rights of a couple whose first child was born with cystic fibrosis.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fire extinguished at Venezuela refinery
Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:46 AMPUNTO FIJO, Venezuela - All fires have been extinguished at Venezuela's biggest oil refinery after raging for more than three days following a deadly explosion, officials said Tuesday.
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Tuesday - 08/28/2012 - 10:56 AMThe price of oil rose to above $96 a barrel on Tuesday as weather forecasters said Tropical Storm Isaac, which was causing oil production cuts in the Gulf of Mexico, could soon gain intensity and turn into a hurricane.
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