More World ↓
Fight over poaching escalates
World Comments Updated: Apr 25, 2013 12:06amBy CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG — A U.S. firm recently gave smart phones to some game rangers in South Africa to help them track poachers who kill rhinos for their...
Police clash with rebels in Xinjiang
World Comments Updated: Apr 25, 2013 12:06amBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press
BEIJING — A violent clash between authorities and assailants described as a terrorist gang left 21 people dead in China’s restive northwestern...
Guatemalan genocide trial to restart
World Comments Updated: Apr 25, 2013 12:06amAssociated Press
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s highest court on Tuesday ordered that the genocide trial against one of the Central American country’s former dictators be taken over by a judge...
Famed Syrian minaret ruined
World Comments Updated: Apr 25, 2013 12:06amBy RYAN LUCAS
Associated Press
BEIRUT — The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo’s old quarter collapsed Wednesday as rebels...
Suspect in Canada terror plot denies charges
World Comments Updated: Apr 24, 2013 12:06amBy BENJAMIN SHINGLER
and ROB GILLIES
Associated Press
TORONTO — A man accused of plotting with al-Qaida members in Iran to derail a train in Canada rejected the charges and said...
French protest against gay marriage turns violent
World Comments Updated: Apr 24, 2013 12:06amBy LORI HINNANT
and SYLVIE CORBET
Associated Press
PARIS — France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation...
Car bomb at French Embassy in Libya wounds 3
World Comments Updated: Apr 24, 2013 12:06amBy ESAM MOHAMED
and MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya — A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside the French Embassy in Tripoli, wounding three people and partially...
Kerry pushes Turkey-Israel rapprochement
World Comments Updated: Apr 22, 2013 12:06amBy MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press
ISTANBUL — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Turkey to speed up and cement an American-brokered rapprochement with Israel, and he...
China recovering after Sichuan quake
World Comments Updated: Apr 22, 2013 12:06amBy GILLIAN WONG
Associated Press
LUSHAN, China — Sitting near chunks of concrete, bricks and a ripped orange sofa, Luo Shiqiang told how his grandfather was just returning from feeding...
Officials: At least 185 killed in Nigeria attack
World Comments Updated: Apr 22, 2013 12:06amBy HARUNA UMAR
Associated Press
BAGA, Nigeria — Fighting between Nigeria’s military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation’s far...
