Police on Tuesday detained a former Serbian diplomat for questioning about allegations he helped a Serbian college student leave the United States to avoid assault charges stemming from a barroom brawl.
Igor Milosevic is accused of providing emergency travel documents to Miladin Kovacevic, who is alleged to have severely beaten schoolmate Bryan Steinhauer on May 4.
Kovacevic, […]
Hurricane Hanna stalled for hours over the southeastern Bahamas on Monday, lashing the islands with fierce winds and rain. Forecasters said it could threaten the southeast United States by midweek.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Ike emerged as a new threat in the open sea, as the National Hurricane Center in Miami monitored three weaker weather systems moving […]
Pakistan said Sunday it was suspending a military operation against insurgents in a tribal region for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan but warned any provocations in the area would bring immediate retaliation.
A Taliban spokesman welcomed the decision to halt the strikes in the Bajur tribal region, a rumored hide-out of Osama bin Laden near […]
Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.
Gustav hit the Isla de la Juventud south of the Cuban mainland just short of a top-scale Category 5 hurricane with screaming 140 […]
Government forces fought Tutsi rebels on Thursday in the fiercest clashes for months in eastern Congo, threatening a struggling peace process, the defence minister said on Thursday.
Mortar fire erupted between rebels loyal to renegade Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and government soldiers in North Kivu province on Thursday morning, Congo’s United […]
Nigeria’s most prominent armed group said Thursday it had located an Israeli national who was kidnapped earlier in the week in the country’s oil-rich but dangerous south.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) also said it was withdrawing an earlier offer to try and help secure his release until an Israeli […]
Sudan’s security apparatus has seized copies of a local English-language newspaper, the latest episode in months of threats and seizures, its chief editor said on Thursday.
William Ezekiel said copies of the Sudan Tribune were confiscated on Wednesday for the 17th time this month and that he had been summoned by national security forces.
“They want to […]
Darfur rebels claimed to have shot down a Sudanese military spy plane in a wild mountainous area of the war-torn region on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army told AFP from London that its forces shot down the unmanned drone — which appeared to be Chinese — in eastern Jebel Marra, in West Darfur […]
Even in China, a country where provocative campaigns are the exception to the rule, animal rights activists PETA says there’s scope for edgy, sexy stunts.Pictures of naked activists crouching in cages to protest animal rights issues are almost passe in the West, but Chinese authorities prevented Olympian swimmer and PETA supporter Amanda Beard from holding […]
Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the sixth time on Friday over fraud and bribery allegations, a police spokesman said.
Detectives arrived at his official home around 10 am (0700 GMT), in what has become a familiar weekend pattern since the scandal broke in May. It led last month to Olmert announcing he would […]