Ahmadinejad wants to attend London Olympics
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that he is eager to attend the Olympic Games in London to support Iranian athletes but that Britain doesn’t want to host him. Continue Reading →
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Plane crash in Himalayan mountains kills 15 ; 6 survive
A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal on Monday, killing 15 people and injuring six, some critically. Continue Reading →
Prince Charles: Your TV weatherman
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, both took a shot at being a weather forecaster on BBC Scotland Thursday. Continue Reading →
Amanda Knox’s slander trial postponed in Italy
Knox faces a charge of slander in Perugia for publicly accusing police of physically and verbally abusing her during questioning after the 2007 slaying of her British roommate. A court on Thursday suspended the case until Feb. 5. Continue Reading →
Russia foils terror plot in Sochi, host city of 2014 Olympics
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the secret service agency FSB had discovered ten caches of weapons and ammunition on May 4 and May 5 in Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia, a region near Sochi. Continue Reading →
Russian plane with 50 aboard missing in Indonesia
A new Russian-made civilian plane carrying 50 people went missing in Indonesia while flying over mountains Wednesday during a demonstration flight for potential buyers and journalists, officials said. Continue Reading →
CIA thwarts new underwear bomb plot against U.S. jetliner
The Associated Press has learned the CIA thwarted a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Continue Reading →
China re-investigates claims of infant flesh in capsules
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Al Qaida hostage pleads to Obama for release
“My life is in your hands, Mr. President,”Warren Weinstein said in the video. “If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t accept the demands, then I die.” Continue Reading →
Gary Locke at center of diplomatic flap with China
U.S. diplomats spent much of Thursday trying to confirm that Chen Guangcheng and his family wanted to leave, and they eventually said they would try to help him. Continue Reading →