Chile mine destroys Peruvian car

Chile mine destroys Peruvian car


Chile mine destroys Peruvian car

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:58 PM PDT

A Peruvian car is destroyed and its occupants killed by a landmine in northern Chile after crossing the border illegally.


Finnish rooftop gunman seems not to be extremist

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:24 PM PDT

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finnish town centre in the early hours of Saturday, killing two people and wounding several others, police said.


Georgia's Saakashvili opens new parliament

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:33 PM PDT

Pro-West president inaugurates building on independence day in industrial city Kutaisi some 220km from capital Tbilisi.


UK soldier killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:20 PM PDT

A soldier from 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh, dies in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan.


Warsi fails to reveal rent income

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:40 PM PDT

The co-chair of the conservative party, Baroness Sayeeda Wasri, admits not fully declaring rental income from a flat she owns in West London.


Power Shortages Set Off Small Protests in Myanmar

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:33 AM PDT

Numerous protests have arisen in Myanmar over persistent power shortages as the past year's democratic reforms have led to rising expectations from a long-suppressed population.


Double blasts wound five in north east Kenya

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:56 AM PDT

ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - Two separate suspected grenade attacks at a hotel and a refugee camp in northeastern Kenya wounded at least five people on Saturday, police said, days after a similar strike in the region.


Islamists walk out of Algeria parliament in protest

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:02 PM PDT

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Islamist lawmakers walked out of the inaugural session of Algeria's parliament on Saturday to protest against an election they say was rigged to hand a majority to the ruling elite's party.


Reporting from a perilous landscape in Afghanistan

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Ten-year-old Khaili Jan lurched toward me from his family's tent in the desert. He had two crutches that sank into the sand with each step, and two plastic prosthetic legs stuffed into oversized sandals.

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Guinea-Bissau's ex-army chief 'arrested'

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Military leader Jose Zamora Induta, who fled in aftermath of last month's coup, detained in Senegal's Casamance region.


PKK says it carried out Turkey suicide car bomb

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:18 AM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Saturday for a suicide car bomb attack in central Turkey that killed one policeman, and media reports said the bombers had entered Turkey from Syria.


The Former Met Bob Ojeda Relives Both Glory and Pain

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Starting when he was 12 and lasting through 15 major league seasons as a pitcher, including time with the Red Sox and the Mets, Bob Ojeda has had an intense relationship with pain.


Democrat Challenges Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:28 AM PDT

Marisa DeFranco is a step away from getting on the primary ballot to challenge Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic front-runner.


Many Claim to Be Memorial Day Birthplace

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:52 AM PDT

Memorial Day originated after the Civil War, an effort at reconciliation in the aftermath of a young nation's most savage years. But where? That is a more complicated question.


A look at the season of hot-weather activities ahead in New

Posted: 26 May 2012 11:07 AM PDT

A look at the season of hot-weather activities ahead in New York, including swimming in the McCarren Park pool.


Chile riot over smelly pig plant

Posted: 26 May 2012 10:38 AM PDT

Chile is evacuating nearly half a million pigs from one of the largest meat processing plants in Latin America after the foul smell sparked riots.


Ethiopia detains, quizzes U.S. journalist: VOA

Posted: 26 May 2012 10:38 AM PDT

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian authorities briefly detained a journalist for Voice of America (VOA) and his translator as he covered a dispute between Muslims and the government in the capital Addis Ababa, the U.S. broadcaster said on Saturday.


At War Blog: Sketching the Wounds of War

Posted: 26 May 2012 09:57 AM PDT

War is one of art's oldest muses. A work of art can both bear witness and rewrite history; it can also be a plea not to repeat the past.


Strauss ton leads England charge

Posted: 26 May 2012 10:19 AM PDT

Captain Andrew Strauss hits his second century of the series as England close day two on 259-2, trailing West Indies by 111.


VIDEO: Inside Google's lair

Posted: 25 May 2012 03:28 AM PDT

Click's Sumi Das reports from inside Google on the company's quest to perfect workplace efficiency by going the extra mile for their employees.


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