Category: World

By Farrukh Azeem – ISLAMABAD — A U.S. drone strike killed a senior al-Qaida figure and at least five other Islamist insurgents in northwestern Pakistan, an intelligence official said Tuesday. Abu Kasha

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — They’re calling it the swat heard ’round the world — and its echo is still reverberating. On Monday night, the school board in

By Mel Frykberg, McClatchy Newspapers – CAIRO — The Libyan man who purportedly discovered former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hiding in a drainage pipe in his hometown died Tuesday after Gadhafi’s supporters kidnapped

New York ~ Monday, September 24, 2012 Mr. President; your Excellencies.   I am honored to represent the United States at this historic meeting on the rule of law – and I

By Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers – NEW YORK — President Barack Obama will use an address Tuesday at the United Nations to press back against Republican criticism that he’s mishandling the U.S. relationship

By James Asher And Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers – NEW YORK — On what is expected to be his last visit to the United States as president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to a suspended one-year jail term and a $20,000 fine in the high-profile corruption case

By Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Curiosity rover has reached out and made personal contact with a Martian rock. Last week, the Mars rover team decided to inch

By Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has extended temporary protected status for Haitians living in the United States for another 18 months, beginning Jan.

By Marco Mierke and Anne Walters – WASHINGTON — The newborn panda cub at Washington’s National Zoo has died, the zoo said Sunday, just one week after its birth drew front page

By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – BAB AL HOWA, Syria — When members of the Farouq Battalions first began to wear distinctive green T-shirts with their fighting unit’s logo in the spring, you

By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times – ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s government on Sunday distanced itself from remarks made by a federal minister who offered up to $100,000 to anyone who would kill the

By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney tangled over their varying approaches to foreign policy in dueling “60 Minutes” interviews that

By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — The announcement by Pope Benedict XVI has been dubbed the “Bombshell by the Bay.” Next week, a key player in

By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A Muslim man suing the U.S. government over his terrorist status has an unlikely ally in the legal fight: Quakers. The American Friends Service

By Sandy Kleffman, Contra Costa Times – Scientists seeking a cause for the deadly hantavirus outbreak among Yosemite National Park visitors over the summer are investigating whether a spike in the deer mouse

Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – HIGHMORE, S.D. — Bruce Roseland runs cattle here in the heart of the South Dakota grasslands, in the same place where his great-grandfather ranched more than a

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — China has canceled a ceremony scheduled for this week to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Japan in anger over Tokyo’s

WASHINGTON – In light of recent press reports of White House personnel involvement in the Colombia prostitution scandal that plagued the Secret Service last spring, Senator Chuck Grassley is pressing for answers

Dave Rasdal, CR Gazette – As warm summer air gives way to crisp fall temperatures, an Iowa countryside filled with the aroma of burning leaves is now clearly becoming a sign of

By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald  – MIAMI — The Obama administration on Friday named 55 captives who the government has cleared for release from the prison camps in Guantanamo if they

By Tiaa Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — A 400-pound Siberian tiger named Bachuta soon will be back on display at the Bronx Zoo after a man jumped from the

By Patrick McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — The rebel Free Syrian Army said Saturday that it was shifting its command headquarters from Turkey to inside Syria, a move meant to

By Mark K. Matthews, Orlando Sentinel – WASHINGTON — Top NASA officials have picked a leading candidate for the agency’s next major mission: construction of an outpost that would send astronauts farther

By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — In response to a recent investigation that found “substantial” levels of arsenic in rice and many rice-based products, a group of Democrats

By Andrew Tangel, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — More checks are in the mail for financier Bernard Madoff’s victims, nearly four years after his epic Ponzi scheme collapsed. Irving Picard, the

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Well-armed militants from the Sinai Desert infiltrated Israel on Friday and attacked a military outpost, killing one Israeli soldier and wounding another. The

By Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The State Department is poised to remove a militant Iranian dissident group from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, the culmination of a long,

By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times – The charter plane ferrying Ann Romney from Omaha, Neb., to Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday was forced to make an emergency landing in Denver after

By Tresa Baldas and Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press – DETROIT — “Let’s get us some money.” “No deal without me.” “It’s my time to get paid.” “These are the words of

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — A man was in critical condition Friday after apparently leaping from a monorail into the tiger den at the Bronx Zoo, where

By Nancy A. Youssef and Suliman Ali Zway, McClatchy Newspapers – BENGHAZI, Libya — A protest Friday against Libya’s dependence on ragtag militias for security turned into an attack on militia headquarters

By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The CIA wants to keep its lethal drones secret, but the Obama administration keeps touting their successes. The resulting conflict could shed more light on

By Mel Frykberg, McClatchy Newspapers – CAIRO — Libya’s second-largest city, Benghazi, was reported tense Thursday ahead of two major rallies called for Friday, one to show support for the United States

By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — Six Mexican police have been assassinated in two separate incidents in the drug-battleground states of Durango and Tamaulipas, government officials reported Thursday.

By Alan Boswell, McClatchy Newspapers – NAIROBI, Kenya — Four Somali journalists have been killed in the last two days in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in what appears to be a

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Fierce clashes were reported Thursday in an area of north-central Syria where anti-government rebels earlier seized a border post across from neighboring

By Kathleen Hennessey and Danielle Ryan, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Myanmar’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, met privately with President Barack Obama after accepting Congress’ highest honor in an