By Sheera Frenkel McClatchy Newspapers JERUSALEM – A man reportedly threatened Tuesday night to kill himself and several hostages at the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv before security personnel overpowered and captured him. Nadim Injaz, […]
Anna Tomforde London (dpa) – If all publicity is good publicity, Tony Blair should count himself lucky that his decision to donate millions from his forthcoming book launch to injured soldiers has placed him – […]
Kathrin Lauer Bucharest (dpa) – Romania ordered a Russian diplomat out of the country Tuesday in a tit-for-tat expulsion for the arrest of an alleged Romanian spy in Moscow. The foreign ministry said the first […]
By Mark Magnier Los Angeles Times NEW DELHI – India’s BlackBerry users breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday as word spread that their beloved smart-phone devices would keep beeping after Aug. 31, the deadline New […]
By Dion Nissenbaum McClatchy Newspapers KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., arrived in Kabul on Tuesday for another tough diplomatic mission to smooth over newly strained relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and […]
By Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times JOHANNESBURG – A former university librarian on Thursday said he wanted to kill as many Americans as possible in bomb attacks that killed 76 people in the Ugandan capital […]
By Jacel Lepiarz dpa WARSAW – Polish police said Thursday that a suspected Israeli Mossad agent accused of helping obtain a fake passport used in the killing of a Hamas leader has been extradited to […]
By Matt Helms, Gina Damron, Zlati Meyer and Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press FLINT, Mich. – Police have a man in custody in connection with the serial stabbings that left as many as five dead, […]
Jeff Black, Helen Maguire Berlin (dpa) – The impending online availability of Google’s novel Street View mapping technology for 20 of Germany’s largest cities has unleashed a wave of unease – in a country long […]
By Lennart Simonsson dpa STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s anti-corruption unit has received six complaints into wedding gifts received by Princess Victoria and her husband on their recent honeymoon, the unit told the German news agency dpa […]
By Jim Souhan Star Tribune (Minneapolis) HAVEN, Wis. – He’s never looked weaker, not when limping around Torrey Pines or even while holding ersatz news conferences as his personal life imploded. Tiger Woods walked off […]
By Batsheva Sobelman and Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – In the most gripping testimony yet before a commission investigating the deadly commando raid on a Gaza Strip bound humanitarian aid flotilla, Israel’s chief […]
Ksenija Prodanovic Sarajevo/Belgrade (dpa) – Bosnian officials said Wednesday that the remains of 20 bodies had been found in the manmade lake of Perucac, located between Bosnia and Serbia. The head of the Bosnian Institute […]
By Rachel Bernstein Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – Patients with brain tumors don’t have many good options – surgery and radiation can damage crucial parts of the brain, and chemotherapy drugs don’t easily cross […]
McClatchy-Tribune News Service As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long held that people born on U.S. soil become citizens – with the notable exception of the period when slavery was legal. But […]
Mike McCarthy Washington (dpa) – The United States is drawing up a 30-billion-dollar sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia despite Israeli concerns about the proposed package, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The centerpiece of […]
By Richard A. Serrano Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – The youngest prisoner at the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is scheduled to stand trial Tuesday on allegations of killing a U.S. soldier and […]
By Benedikt Von Imhoff dpa MOSCOW – The battle against forest and peat bog fires around Russia continued Sunday, with new fires at one nuclear research site just after firefighters had succeeded in securing another […]
Helen Maguire Warsaw/Prague/Berlin (dpa) – At least nine people died during a weekend of floods in the region straddling Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, authorities reported Sunday. Heavy rainfalls swelled rivers in the border regions […]
BEIJING – At least 80 people died in rain-triggered landslides north-western China county, state media reported Sunday. About 2,000 people were still missing after the landslides, which occurred overnight in Zhouqu County, in a Tibetan […]
By Saeed Shah McClatchy Newspapers KARACHI, Pakistan – The Pakistan government’s poor response to the worst floods in the country’s history has damaged its fragile democracy, while the powerful military establishment has gained stature with […]
By Alistair Barr MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO – Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said Wednesday that 40 of America’s richest people publicly pledged to give away at least half their money to charity, a move that […]
Washington (dpa) – The United States was “extremely concerned” about the clash Tuesday between the Israeli and Lebanese militaries and urged both sides to exercise restraint along the border. Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire […]
By Jeannine Stein Los Angeles Times The fascination with low-carb versus low-fat diet continues; the latest news comes from a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine released Monday that found that people on both […]
By Frank Michael Russell San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion – aiming to stay ahead of manufacturers of rival devices such as Apple’s iPhone – on Tuesday unveiled […]
The Hartford Courant MANCHESTER, Conn. – Nine people are dead in a workplace shooting at a family-owned beer and wine wholesaler, police said. Sources said Omar S. Thornton, 34, was a driver for Hartford Distributors […]
By Margaret Talev McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday declared that at month’s end the U.S. will end its combat mission in Iraq “as promised and on schedule,” and he pledged to […]
By Ken Dilanian Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – Efforts to reduce civilian casualties by restricting U.S. airstrikes and other uses of force in Afghanistan are also sparing American troops from attack, according to a new […]
By William Weir The Hartford Courant HARTFORD, Conn. – When Sonic Drive-in opened its first Connecticut franchise in Wallingford last month, it came just in time to serve the fast-food chain’s newest menu item, the […]
By Jon Hilkevitch Chicago Tribune OSHKOSH, Wis. – An electric airliner? Imagine a hyper-efficient aircraft as large as a Boeing 737, although weighing much less. It would run quieter and cleaner than any other commercial […]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – A small model airplane flew into Israel from Lebanon two weeks ago and crashed close to the border, an Israeli Defence Force (IDF) spokesman announced Sunday night. The 50 centimetre-long plane […]
By Edmund Sanders Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – Israel moved Sunday to deport the offspring of hundreds of migrant workers, mostly small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their […]
By Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times CAIRO, Egypt – Citing concerns that terrorists and criminals could exploit telecommunications traffic in the Arab world’s financial hub, the United Arab Emirates said Sunday that it would suspend […]
Paris (dpa) – Investigators in northern France dug up the remains of eight infants in a garden, after a tip from the new owner of a house, justice sources said Wednesday. The grisly find came […]
Washington (dpa) – President Barack Obama has not received an invitation to former first daughter Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, and he said on a daytime talk show Thursday that he agrees with that decision. This weekend, […]
By Jeff Black dpa BONN, Germany – A 90-year-old man has been charged with taking part in the murder of some 430,000 Jews at a Nazi-run death camp during World War II, prosecutors said Wednesday. […]
By Noelle Phillips McClatchy Newspapers You do it. Your co-workers do it. Heck, even Russ Pate does it. And he runs marathons. “You send an e-mail to someone two doors down at the office,” Pate […]
Wellington (dpa) – Patrick Lam had never seen, let alone eaten, a pie when he arrived in New Zealand as a refugee from Cambodia 13 years ago. Today, he is the nation’s undisputed Pie King […]
By Borzou Daragahi Los Angeles Times BEIRUT, Lebanon – The European Union formally adopted harsh and unprecedented restrictions on trade with Iran on Monday in an effort to pressure Tehran to comply with international demands […]
The American Cancer Society recently reported some good news: Cancer is still on the run. Although men and women continue to get the disease in large numbers, the big change is found in cancer deaths. […]
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