Category: World

By Raheem Salman and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomb detonated Friday at a busy Baghdad intersection as a funeral procession was passing by, killing 32

Michael Schaffer, Daily Iowegian, Centerville, Iowa – CENTERVILLE — Between 250-300 people came to the Centerville Fire Department Thursday afternoon to take part in placing 2,200 American flags along the route the body

Diane Heldt, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – The University of Iowa has spent more than $6.3 million on dozens of tenant properties since 2001, the majority of them in the Melrose Avenue

Rod Boshart, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – DES MOINES – An already weird story took another bizarre twist Thursday when representatives for a trust based in Belize that turned in the winning

By David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a budget blueprint Thursday that cuts projected military spending by nearly half a trillion dollars, yet still calls for increasing

By John L. Micek and Andrew McGill, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — As the hearse bearing Joe Paterno passed through the community he called home for more than

By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers – MEXICO CITY — In a sign that global manufacturers are looking beyond Mexico’s security woes, Nissan said Wednesday that it will invest $2 billion in a new

By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Rejoice, those who love fried foods: eating them may not put you at higher risk for coronary heart disease — if you’re frying

By Kathy Bergen, Jeff Coen and David Heinzmann, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — The May summits of world leaders in Chicago are an unmatched opportunity to build the city’s global image and attract

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Hours after four of his town’s police officers were arrested on federal charges of harassing and abusing Latinos, East Haven, Conn., Mayor Joseph

By Jessica Testa, Cronkite News Service PHOENIX — The Republican governor who has “Scorpions for Breakfast” says she was chewed out Wednesday by the leader of the free world. Gov. Jan Brewer’s greeting

By Emily Seagrave Kennedy, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Just a year and a half after condemning officials at Arlington National Cemetery for “heartbreakingly incompetent management,” Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and

By David S. Cloud and Lutfi Sheriff Mohammed, Tribune Washington Bureau – MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Navy SEALs parachuted into the darkness, landing more than a mile from their objective: a small bush

By John L. Micek and Andrew McGill, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) – STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — As the hearse bearing Joe Paterno passed through the community he called home for more than

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated Iran’s third-largest bank, Bank Tejarat, for providing financial services to several Iranian banks and firms already subject to international sanctions for their involvement in Iran’s

By Michelle Theriault Boots, McClatchy Newspapers – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The aurora borealis streaking across Alaska skies this week captivated sky watchers who camped out in sub-zero temperatures to photograph the lights,

By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times – JOHANNESBURG — U.S. military forces carried out a dramatic helicopter rescue overnight in Somalia, freeing two Western aid workers taken hostage by pirates. Jessica Buchanan, a

Gregg Hennigan, CR Gazette – IOWA CITY – The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to tweak Iowa City’s 21-only law. The goal is to keep bars from skirting the intent of the

By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich will not serve a jail sentence following his guilty plea in the killing of 24 Iraqis in

By Henry Chu. Los Angeles Times LONDON — Time stands still for no one. In London, it doesn’t even stand straight. Big Ben, perhaps the most iconic structure in all of Britain, is

By Ron Sylvester, McClatchy Newspapers – WICHITA, Kan. — U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown has died at age 104. Brown died Monday evening at the Larksfield Place retirement community, where he had

By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — They stand at the curb, waving a red rag like an urban matador. “Hay lugar, hay lugar!” they call to passing motorists. (“There’s

By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times – JOHANNESBURG — Seventeen years ago, a humiliated U.N. peacekeeping mission left the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after a failed intervention to stem the country’s spiral into chaos

By Alexandra Zavis and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – DAMASCUS, Syria — An Arab League peace plan for Syria appeared to be near collapse Tuesday as six Persian Gulf nations announced

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – GYEONGJU, South Korea — On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim Yong-chul sat crossed-legged on the floor of a small apartment without

By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Sitting in the plant-filled patio of his home outside the capital, anti-corruption crusader Gustavo Alfredo Landaverde uttered what few people have the courage to

By Michael Logan and Mohamed Odowa – MOGADISHU, Somalia — Two hostages, an American and a Dane, have been freed from captivity in Somalia by the U.S. Navy, the Danish Refugee Council

By Lisa Demer, McClatchy Newspapers – ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An agitated moose ran down and stomped a well-known Bush pilot from Willow, Alaska, but he was saved when his wife grabbed a shovel

By Denise-Marie Balona, The Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — The four Florida A&M University students who were charged last week with hazing members of the school’s marching band have been dismissed from

By Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was blocked from boarding a flight at the Nashville airport Monday morning after refusing to consent to a body pat

By Clare Byrne PARIS — France and Turkey were headed for another diplomatic showdown Monday after the French Senate adopted a bill that makes it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered

By David Barber WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Volunteers renewed efforts Tuesday to save about 40 survivors of a pod of 99 pilot whales stranded on a remote beach at the top of

By Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — Men in pressed suits and polished shoes, some carrying holy books and sporting beards, rushed past cement barricades and hurried beneath

MCT FORUM – By Lindsay Pollard-Post – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – Americans and Afghans alike are rightly outraged over a video circulating on the Internet that allegedly shows U.S.

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – DURHAM, N.C. — A line of rare winter tornadoes roared through Alabama early Monday morning, ripping apart homes and businesses and prompting the state’s governor to

By Henry Chu and Paul Richter, Tribune Washington Bureau – LONDON — Europe slapped a boycott on Iranian oil Monday, signaling that the Islamic Republic’s second-largest market is likely to dry up as

By Chuck Williams, McClatchy Newspapers – COLUMBUS, Ga. — A Georgia judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta Thursday for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama

Gregg Hennigan, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa – By Gregg Hennigan and Jeff Raasch IOWA CITY – Talk of banning traffic cameras in the Iowa legislature has the attention of officials in Cedar

Lauren Stanforth, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. – U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona will step down from Congress this week, an announcement she made in a professionally-made video posted on YouTube Sunday. “I have more