At least 23 killed in Bangladesh landslides (AP) |
- At least 23 killed in Bangladesh landslides (AP)
- Iraq's new parliament convenes
- U.S. news digest for Tuesday, June 15
- Germany, France present united front on policy (Reuters)
- UN warns rival Koreas against escalating tension (AFP)
- Germany, France present united front on policy
- Scores dead in Mexico violence
- Indonesian jailed for hotel attacks
- Rural outreach to Afghans snags on technology and fear (Reuters)
- Rural outreach to Afghans snags on technology and fear
- N.Ireland families await Bloody Sunday probe findings (AFP)
- Japan central bank keeps interest rates unchanged (AP)
- Regional bloc led by Russia plans to send equipment to violence-torn Kyrgyzstan
- One year later, China's crackdown after Uighur riots haunts a homeland
- Pakistan rejects report saying nation's intelligence agency aids Afghan Taliban
- Washington objects to China-Pakistan nuclear deal
- UN warns rival Koreas against escalating tension
- Alliance between African radical groups poses danger
- N.Ireland families await Bloody Sunday probe findings
- US puts Singapore on human trafficking watch list
| At least 23 killed in Bangladesh landslides (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:03 PM PDT AP - Officials say landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 23 people and left several others missing in southeastern Bangladesh.
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| Iraq's new parliament convenes Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:07 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament convened on Monday for the first time since a March election, cloaked by heavy security a day after gunmen and suicide bombers raided the central bank in a sign of continued lawlessness and instability.
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| U.S. news digest for Tuesday, June 15 Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT A Sunday school teacher who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering a neighbor girl in Northern California was sentenced to prison Monday for the rest of her life. 
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| Germany, France present united front on policy (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 10:49 PM PDT Reuters - Germany and France on Monday moved to mend fences on policy splits, agreeing the European Union needs economic governance by all 27 member states, not just euro zone nations, as Paris had previously proposed.
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| UN warns rival Koreas against escalating tension (AFP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 10:46 PM PDT
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| Germany, France present united front on policy Posted: 14 Jun 2010 10:49 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France on Monday moved to mend fences on policy splits, agreeing the European Union needs economic governance by all 27 member states, not just euro zone nations, as Paris had previously proposed.
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| Scores dead in Mexico violence Posted: 14 Jun 2010 10:23 PM PDT Prison riots leave 29 dead, while another 13 police officers die in separate attacks.
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| Indonesian jailed for hotel attacks Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:49 PM PDT Court sentences man to eight years over twin suicide bombings of Jakarta hotels in 2009.
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| Rural outreach to Afghans snags on technology and fear (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:34 PM PDT Reuters - Mortally wounded after setting off an improvised bomb, the boy might have survived. But rather than use the hotline provided them by Canadian troops, fellow villagers carried him out for treatment.
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| Rural outreach to Afghans snags on technology and fear Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:34 PM PDT KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Mortally wounded after setting off an improvised bomb, the boy might have survived. But rather than use the hotline provided them by Canadian troops, fellow villagers carried him out for treatment.
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| N.Ireland families await Bloody Sunday probe findings (AFP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:07 PM PDT
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| Japan central bank keeps interest rates unchanged (AP) Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:25 PM PDT AP - Japan's central bank has voted to keep its interest rate unchanged at 0.1 percent as widely expected.
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| Regional bloc led by Russia plans to send equipment to violence-torn Kyrgyzstan Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN -- A regional security bloc led by Russia on Monday weighed appeals to send peacekeeping troops to stop ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan and prepared a plan to provide helicopters and other equipment as refugees fleeing the violence flocked to the border.
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| One year later, China's crackdown after Uighur riots haunts a homeland Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT URUMQI, CHINA -- A hulking shell of a department store towers over this city's Uighur quarter, a reminder of what can be lost here by speaking up.
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| Pakistan rejects report saying nation's intelligence agency aids Afghan Taliban Posted: 14 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Pakistani officials on Monday angrily dismissed a report published this weekend alleging that the nation's primary intelligence agency finances, trains and at least partially controls the Afghan Taliban insurgency.
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| Washington objects to China-Pakistan nuclear deal Posted: 14 Jun 2010 04:40 PM PDT The Obama administration has decided to object to a lucrative deal in which a state-owned Chinese companies would supply Pakistan with two nuclear reactors, U.S. officials said.
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| UN warns rival Koreas against escalating tension Posted: 14 Jun 2010 06:24 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has warned South and North Korea against escalating regional tension after hearing briefings by both sides on the sinking of a South Korean warship which Seoul blames on the North.
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| Alliance between African radical groups poses danger Posted: 14 Jun 2010 06:21 PM PDT NOUAKCHOTT -Moves by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to forge links with Nigerian Islamic radicals represent a serious threat, say analysts in Mauritania, Algeria and Europe.
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| N.Ireland families await Bloody Sunday probe findings Posted: 14 Jun 2010 06:20 PM PDT LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland -The families of those killed in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday will finally get to hear Tuesday the findings of a long-awaited, mammoth inquiry into the highly controversial 1972 shootings.
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| US puts Singapore on human trafficking watch list Posted: 14 Jun 2010 08:53 AM PDT WASHINGTON -The United States has put allies Singapore and Thailand as well as Vietnam on a human trafficking watch list, accusing them of failing to prevent women from being forced into prostitution.
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