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I SLAMABAD | Pakistan’s powerful military rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts. The dismissal complicates American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan border.
KAMPALA, Uganda | A top suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of thousands of people in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has been captured, police said Tuesday. The fugitive, former Rwandan intelligence officer Idelphonse Nizeyimana — who is accused of organizing the slaughter of children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly ceremonial queen — was arrested Monday in Uganda. He had been on the run for year.
WASHINGTON | President Barack Obama won’t walk away from the war in Afghanistan, the White House declared Monday. “I don’t think we have the option to leave,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. “That’s quite clear.”
ROME | Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin — revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb — and say the experiment proves the relic was manmade, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday. The shroud bears the figure of a crucified man, complete with blood seeping out of nailed hands and feet.
TEHRAN, Iran | The visiting head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog set Oct. 25 as the date for his inspectors to check Iran’s newly revealed uranium enrichment site and struck an upbeat note Sunday, saying Tehran’s confrontation with the West is shifting gears to more cooperation and transparency. Although the United Nations has no “concrete proof” of an ongoing nuclear weapons program, the chief of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said he has “concerns about Iran’s future intentions.”
KABUL | An Afghan wearing a police uniform shot and killed two American soldiers and wounded two others during a patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, Afghan officials said. The man escaped. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said officials were investigating whether the attacker was a police officer or a militant dressed as one.
MANILA, Philippines | Police say landslides caused by Typhoon Parma have killed 12 people in two northern Philippines villages. The death from the storm is now at least 16. Senior Superintendent Loreto Espineli said today that a family of five died when their home in a village in Benguet province was buried. An additional seven people were killed when a house was buried in a nearby town.
BAGHDAD | Iraqi security forces have detained more than 100 suspects in sweeps through Mosul to try to cripple the country’s last major stronghold of Sunni insurgents, a commander said Saturday. The offensive, which began early last week, is the latest attempt to break the networks of al-Qaida in Iraq and other groups in the Mosul region in northern Iraq. The insurgents have bounced back each time with little apparent damage to their ability to strike Iraqi and U.S. troops and their allies.
P ADANG, Indonesia | The death toll from Indonesia’s massive earthquake will likely double as officials on Saturday reached rural communities wiped out by landslides that buried more than 600 people — most of them guests at a wedding celebration. Virtually nothing remained of four villages that had dotted a western hillside just three days ago.
L EONE, American Samoa | The village of Leone is a picturesque enclave that has been a mainstay of the Samoas for centuries. It is a place where residents gather under beach meeting houses for rituals that are sacred to the local culture. Today, much of the village is a bleak landscape of rubble.
PADANG, Indonesia | Ratna Kurniasari Virgo lay surrounded by death for 40 hours. She was trapped with a broken leg between the collapsed walls of her college and the bodies of her dead friends. Her rescue Friday was a rare tale of survival two days after a massive Indonesian earthquake killed at least 770 people and left nearly 3,000 missing under the rubble of tens of thousands of buildings.
G ENEVA | Iran agreed Thursday to ship most of its enriched uranium to Russia for refinement, in what Western diplomats called a significant, but interim, measure. The deal eases concerns over Tehran’s nuclear program because it provides a measure of certainty that the uranium will not be used to make weapons.
PADANG, Indonesia | As rescue workers searched for survivors in the wreckage of a four-story school Thursday, Mira Utami’s mother clawed away, too. She was looking for the shoes missing from her daughter’s body.
A second powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia on Thursday as rescuers struggled to reach survivors of the previous day's quake, which killed more than 500 people and left thousands trapped under collapsed buildings.
Samoans searched flattened homes and debris-filled swamps Thursday as more military ships and planes began arriving on the disaster-stricken Pacific islands after an earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 150 people.
An Italian prosecutor in the first trial anywhere scrutinizing the CIA's extraordinary renditions asked a Milan court on Wednesday to sentence 26 Americans to jail terms ranging from 10 to 13 years for the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili had no justification under international law when he ordered a military incursion into the breakaway South Ossetia region last year that included missile barrages on civilian areas, according to a European Union-commissioned report released Wednesday.
PADANG, Indonesia | A powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia on Wednesday triggered landslides and trapped thousands of people under collapsed buildings — including two hospitals, officials said. At least 200 bodies were found in one coastal city, and the toll was expected to be far higher. A powerful aftershock struck today.
APIA, Samoa | Police in green reflective vests searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of the earthquake and tsunami that killed 119 in the South Pacific. Military transports flew medical personnel, food, water and medicine to the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, which were devastated by the wall of water triggered by Tuesday morning’s undersea earthquake. One cargo plane from New Zealand brought in a temporary morgue and a body identification team. Officials expect the death toll to rise as more areas are searched.
A church dormitory collapsed Wednesday in eastern Nepal after attendees at a Christian conference went to sleep on its roof, killing at least 24 people and injuring an additional 62, police and church officials said.
A man accused of throwing his 4-year-old daughter off of a Melbourne bridge has pleaded not guilty to her murder.
Taiwan's High Court on Friday upheld its earlier decision to keep former President Chen Shui-bian in detention after the Supreme Court ordered it to hold a hearing on the matter, an official said.
The U.S. military says American and Afghan forces accidentally killed a child during a raid on a Taliban compound in eastern Afghanistan.
Pakistan's U.S.-backed government questioned Thursday why the powerful military publicly criticized a billion-dollar American aid bill, highlighting tensions in the country as the army prepares for an expected offensive against the Taliban and al-Qaida along the border with Afghanistan.
Police and politicians say Irish Republican Army dissidents have shot a Northern Ireland man in both legs in a so-called "punishment" attack, and police who responded were attacked with bricks, bottles and other makeshift weapons. One policeman was hospitalized with a head wound.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday he will go on TV and appear in courtrooms to prove that corruption and tax fraud charges in two trials against him are false.
Guinea's leader says there will be an independent commission set up to investigate why troops opened fire on protesters at a pro-democracy rally.
Russian news agencies say Russia's top cultural official has vowed to fight the construction of a glass-clad skyscraper in St. Petersburg.
Nigeria's main militant group vowed to resume attacks after a cease-fire expires next week, while the government said Thursday that more than 8,000 militants had disarmed as part of an amnesty program.
While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum seeks to remind us there was more method than madness to his style.
Egypt's decision to cut ties with the Louvre museum had nothing to do with the loss last month in the country's bid to head the Paris-based UNESCO, the country's chief archaeologist said Thursday.
The Dutch are about to learn how Italian police catch speeders.
In an Oct. 7 story about the disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat identified an Iranian who disappeared in Georgia as a second nuclear scientist. Asharq Al-Awsat said the man was believed to be an arms dealer.
An Australian variety show host has apologized for a skit in which singers parodying the Jackson Five performed in blackface.
A Moscow court began hearings Thursday in a libel suit brought by Stalin's grandson against a Russian newspaper that he claims called into question the Soviet dictator's honor and dignity.
Honduras' coup-installed leader is resisting calls by diplomats from across the hemisphere to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, at one point angrily telling the visitors they "don't know the truth or don't want to know it."
Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse.
When a powerful storm inundated the Philippines last month, most people rushed to save their homes or their lives. Employees of one museum, however, grabbed the shoes.
The Hawaiian woman whose recovery from lung cancer was called miraculous says the Belgian-born priest she prayed to is already a saint, even before the pope canonizes him Sunday.
A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the bustling center of the Afghan capital Thursday, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city in less than a month. The Afghan Foreign Ministry hinted at Pakistani involvement - a charge Pakistan denied.
