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Factory collapse victims buried
World Comments Updated: May 02, 2013 12:05amBy CHRIS BLAKE
Associated Press
JURAIN, Bangladesh — Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a mass funeral...
Israel says conflict over recognition, not territory
World Comments Updated: May 02, 2013 12:05amBy ARON HELLER
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister gave a cool reception Wednesday to a new Arab Mideast peace initiative, saying the conflict with the Palestinians...
Assad in rare visit to capital
World Comments Updated: May 02, 2013 12:05amBy JAMAL HALABY
Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance at a Damascus power station on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near the...
Syrian PM escapes death
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amBy ALBERT AJI
and RYAN LUCAS
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the heart of the heavily defended capital...
UN: Allow chemical weapons experts
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amBy EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Syria again Monday to allow experts into the country without delay or conditions to...
260K died in Somali famine
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amBy JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published...
Bangladesh building’s owner grilled
World Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 12:06amAssociated Press
SAVAR, Bangladesh — A Bangladesh court on Monday gave police 15 days to interrogate the owner of a building that collapsed last week, killing at least 382 people, as...
Bangladesh building collapse death toll nears 350
World Comments Updated: Apr 28, 2013 12:06amBy FARID HOSSAIN and JULHAS ALAM
Associated Press
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Police in Bangladesh took six people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed...
NKorea charges US man in plot to overthrow regime
World Comments Updated: Apr 28, 2013 12:06amAssociated Press
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to...
NATO crash kills 4; Taliban begin spring offensive
World Comments Updated: Apr 28, 2013 12:06amAssociated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — A NATO plane crash in southern Afghanistan killed four international troops on Saturday, the same day the Taliban announced its spring offensive and...
