‘National tragedy’ in Guatemala as landslides kill dozens ( September 6th, 2010 )
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP)
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a “national tragedy” on Sunday after landslides killed at least 36 people and left rescuers digging in the mud for dozens still missing.
Colom declared a state of emergency as fears grew the eventual toll from scores of landslides across the country set off by weeks of torrential [...]
Netanyahu seeks ‘new solutions’ to Palestinian conflict ( September 6th, 2010 )
JERUSALEM (AFP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that creative thinking was needed to end the decades-old conflict with the Palestinians.
Washington meanwhile announced that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would travel to the region later this month for the first of twice-monthly meetings between Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
And the Palestinians warned [...]
Emotional ceremony for Chile miners as one month marked ( September 6th, 2010 )
COPIAPO, Chile (AFP)
In an emotional ceremony Sunday full of song, music and tears, relatives of 33 trapped workers marked one month since a cave-in at a Chilean mine entombed their loved ones deep underground.
Flags for the 32 Chileans and one Bolivian were placed in the ground, and at 1:45 pm (1745 GMT), the estimated time [...]
ETA declares ceasefire in Basque independence battle ( September 6th, 2010 )
MADRID (AFP)
Basque separatist fighters ETA declared a ceasefire Sunday in their flagging, decades-long campaign of bombing and shooting for a homeland independent of Spain.
ETA, blamed for the deaths of 829 people over more than 40 years, said in a video it had decided several months ago that it “will not carry out armed offensive actions.”
The [...]
Focus of Gulf oil disaster shifts to finding the culprit ( September 5th, 2010 )
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP)
With a key piece of evidence raised from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico and BP’s Macondo well ruled a threat no longer, the focus shifts to what went wrong and who is to blame.
Had it functioned properly, the blowout preventer would have sealed off the well after the explosion that [...]
ETA declares ceasefire in Basque independence battle ( September 5th, 2010 )
MADRID (AFP)
Basque separatist fighters ETA declared a ceasefire Sunday in their flagging, decades-long campaign of bombing and shooting for a homeland independent of Spain.
ETA, blamed for the deaths of 829 people over more than 40 years, said in a video it had decided several months ago that it “will not carry out armed offensive actions.”
The [...]
Netanyahu seeks ‘new solutions’ to Palestinian conflict ( September 5th, 2010 )
JERUSALEM (AFP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that creative thinking was needed to end the decades-old conflict with the Palestinians.
Washington meanwhile announced that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would travel to the region later this month for the first of twice-monthly meetings between Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
And the Palestinians warned [...]
US troops fire back as suicide bombers kill 12 in Baghdad ( September 5th, 2010 )
BAGHDAD (AFP)
American troops were among those who fired back to repel a coordinated suicide attack on an Iraqi army complex that killed 12 people on Sunday, days after US forces officially ended combat operations in the country.
The attack occurred in the morning at Rusafa military command headquarters, which only three weeks ago was hit by [...]
US troops fire back as suicide bombers kill 12 in Baghdad ( September 5th, 2010 )
BAGHDAD (AFP)
As many as five suicide bombers killed 12 people on Sunday at an Iraqi army complex in Baghdad, with US troops among those who fired back in a bid to repel the coordinated attack.
American involvement in the response was the first such engagement for US forces in Baghdad since they declared an end to [...]
Three killed, scores hurt in Dagestan suicide bombing ( September 5th, 2010 )
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AFP)
A suicide bomber rammed a Russian military base Sunday, killing three people and wounding some thirty more in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, law enforcement sources said.
The explosives-packed car targeted a firing range used by the motor rifle brigade at Dalny near the city of Buynaksk, 40 kilometres (30 miles) west of [...]