World News

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Last news: January 2, 2009 21:51:12

AP - A Tuareg rebel group claimed responsibility for the abduction of a U.N. envoy on the outskirts of Nigers capital, saying Tuesday saying the veteran Canadian diplomat was in good health. - [Read more]

AP - A splinter group of prominent African National Congress politicians launched a new party Tuesday in the first major challenge to the movement since it took power nearly 15 years ago after toppling South Africas apartheid government.

AP - President Evo Morales says he will no longer hold press conferences for Bolivian reporters — only the "more responsible" international press. - [Read more]

AP - Three Guantanamo prisoners were flown to Bosnia Tuesday and released to their families in the first detainee transfer ordered by a U.S. federal judge, according to local police and an attorney for the men.

AP - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday stressing that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process initiated by the United States last year is irreversible and urging intensified efforts to achieve peace throughout the Middle East. - [Read more]

AP - The British Broadcasting Corp. complained Tuesday that Chinese authorities were blocking access to its Chinese language Web site. - [Read more]

AP - Greek protesters pushed their way into television and radio studios Tuesday, forcing broadcasters to put out anti-government messages in a change of tactics after days of violent street protests.

AP - A British-Iraqi doctor was convicted of conspiracy to murder Tuesday for failed car bomb attacks upon young nightclubbers and rescue workers in London and airport travelers in Scotland. Prosecutors said he plotted to kill hundreds in revenge for the deaths of loved ones in Iraq.

AFP - Angry protests erupted in Australia on Tuesday as environmentalists accused the government of "surrendering" by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by only five percent by 2020.

AP - On a trip that was probably her last firefighters dash into the worlds flare-ups, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rices emergency diplomacy in South Asia ended without concrete accomplishments.

AP - The annual list of Switzerlands richest people shows even the Alpine tax havens super-wealthy arent immune from the financial meltdown. - [Read more]

AFP - A moderate 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Japans largest island on Saturday but there was no risk of a tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, and no immediate reports of damage.

AP - The mothers of two men killed in the Sept. 11 attacks are traveling to Guantanamo Bay this weekend hoping to look into the eyes of the man who says he is responsible for the worst terrorist strike on U.S. soil.

AP - Georgias leaders ousted the defense minister and foreign minister Friday in a shake-up some observers saw as reflecting dissatisfaction with the West as the country struggles to recover from its disastrous war with Russia. - [Read more]

AP - The military is beginning a big building effort in Afghanistan to house the roughly 20,000 additional troops who are expected to begin pouring in early next year, a top military officer said Friday.

AP - Former President Bill Clinton said Friday the U.S. government has no choice but to spend its way out of its worst economic crisis in decades. - [Read more]

AP - Armed robbers — some disguised as women — snatched euro85 million ($108 million) worth of diamond rings, necklaces and luxury watches from a Harry Winston boutique on a posh Paris avenue in one of the largest jewel heists in history, officials said Friday.

AP - Fishermen on Friday found two men on a boat that had been lost more than three weeks at sea, the Dominican Navy said. The other 49 migrants who had been aboard were believed dead. - [Read more]

AP - Iraq launched an unprecedented public campaign Friday to attract investment from international oil companies, rolling out a red carpet — literally — for executives from as far away as Russia and Japan. - [Read more]

AFP - Finlands Jari-Matti Latvala, driving a Ford Focus, led Sebastian Loeb at the end of the first day of the Rally of Great Britain on Friday.