Monthly Archives: August 2011

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran says the speaker of its parliament will visit North Korea to discuss “expansion of cooperation” with Pyongyang. The trip underlines the close ties between the two nations. The U.S. has accused North Korea of providing Iran … Continue reading →

LAGOS, Nigeria – Flash flooding across Nigeria’s southwest killed at least 102 people in the last week, the country’s Red Cross said Wednesday. Some 1,500 people remain displaced by the torrential downpours, officials said. The major flood hit hardest in … Continue reading →

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile’s first lady on Wednesday reassured all 33 rescued miners that the government won’t abandon them, a day after she announced early retirement benefits for just under half of them. President Sebastian Pinera’s wife Cecilia Morel said … Continue reading →

FRANKFURT, Germany – A Kosovo Albanian man confessed Wednesday to killing two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport, saying in emotional testimony at the opening of his trial that he had been influenced by radical Islamic propaganda online. Arid Uka … Continue reading →

(LAGOS, Nigeria) – Nigeria’s secret police say that two men have been arrested in connection with a car bombing at the United Nations’ headquarters in the oil-rich nation that killed 23 people. The State Security Service issued a statement Wednesday … Continue reading →

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities investigating last week’s fatal bombing of the U.N. headquarters arrested two members of Islamist sect Boko Haram a week before the attack and said they suspect a third member with an al Qaeda connection led … Continue reading →

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian man confessed to shooting dead two U.S. airmen and wounding two more at Frankfurt airport in March, telling a packed German court Wednesday he was swayed by Islamist lies and could not undo … Continue reading →

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s blessing of a deal with ExxonMobil to extract oil and gas from the Russian Arctic sends a strong signal that he will return to the Kremlin in an election next year. Neither Putin, … Continue reading →