World News

  • Abbas supporters in West Bank urge him not to quit

    Reuters - 1 hour 47 minutes ago

    By Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh

  • US investigators believe gunman acted alone

    AFP - 2 hours 8 minutes ago

    FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) - - US investigators believe the army doctor accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage at a Texas military base acted alone, but his motive for the massacre was unclear, officials said.

  • An undated handout photo picture released by the Yemeni army's media office shows a Yemeni soldier in position allegedly during clashes with Shiite rebels in Saada province, about 240 kms north of Sanaa. Shiite rebels said Saudi Arabia bombed their positions inside Yemen again, six days after a cross-border fighting pulled Riyadh into its neighbour's campaign against the insurgents.

    Saudi 'bombs' rebels inside Yemen again

    AFP - Monday, November 9

    JIZAN, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - - Shiite rebels said Saudi Arabia bombed their positions inside Yemen again on Sunday, six days after a cross-border fighting pulled Riyadh into its neighbour's campaign against the insurgents.

  • The control room of the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities, south of Tehran. Proposals from world powers to supply nuclear fuel for a research reactor in Iran are still on the table, a leading MP said a day after suggesting that Tehran could reject the deal.

    UN-proposed nuclear deal still on table: Iran MP

    AFP - Monday, November 9

    TEHRAN (AFP) - - Proposals from world powers to supply nuclear fuel for a research reactor in Iran are still on the table, a leading MP said on Sunday, a day after suggesting that Tehran could reject the deal.

  • Thousands of Japanese protest U.S. base plan

    Reuters - Sunday, November 8

    By Isabel Reynolds

  • Today in History - Nov. 8

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    Today is Sunday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2009. There are 53 days left in the year.

  • Obama to attend memorial for Fort Hood victims

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as "all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable" because it occurred on the nation's largest Army post.

  • Mexican army makes large opium seizure

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    MORELIA, Mexico - The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.

  • Haiti's new prime minister wins confirmation

    Reuters - Sunday, November 8

    By Joseph Guyler Delva

  • The construction site where a bridge collapsed in Massana near Andorre-la-Vielle. A bridge collapse in Andorra Saturday killed at least three workers, left seven badly hurt and one missing, feared buried under the rubble, the government said.

    Three killed in Andorra bridge collapse

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    ANDORRA LA VELLA (AFP) - - A bridge collapse in Andorra Saturday killed at least three workers, left seven badly hurt and one missing, feared buried under the rubble, the government said.

  • Saudis take mountain from Yemen rebels

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's assistant defense minister says his forces have taken control of a mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels.

  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) speaks during an interview with German journalists at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow. Medvedev said Saturday that his

    Yushchenko to blame for Russia-Ukraine spat: Medvedev

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    MOSCOW (AFP) - - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that his "Russophobe" Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko was the sole reason for the decline in relations between the two countries.

  • Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

  • Saudi won't bar hajj pilgrims over swine flu fears

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not bar anyone considered high-risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year, though he urged countries where pilgrims set out from to take precautions.

  • Bruni-Sarkozy tells of 8 years in psychoanalysis

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    PARIS - During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.

  • US tourist dies 'car surfing' in Puerto Rico

    AP - Sunday, November 8

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.