Politics

Peru's Shining Path leader pens his autobiography - 09/12/2009

LIMA - Abimael Guzman, the once feared leader of the Shining Path insurgency that shook Peru in the 1980s and 1990s, has written an autobiography that goes on sale Saturday. The 408-page book, to...

Riot police quell clashes at 9/11 demo in London - 09/12/2009

LONDON, Guy Jackson - Riot police arrested 10 people Friday as they intervened to quell clashes between Muslims and anti-Islamic protestors outside a London mosque on the anniversary of the September...

Tensions in Chinese province prompt US travel warning - 09/12/2009

WASHINGTON - The State Department on Friday warned Americans to carefully weigh any travel to a Chinese province where tensions between Han Chinese and ethnic Uighurs have resulted in violent...

US welcomes Slovenia-Croatia deal - 09/12/2009

WASHINGTON- The United States on Friday welcomed a deal between Croatia and Slovenia aimed at resolving a border row and at lifting a block on Croatian talks to join the European Union. "The...

Arab remark sparks racism row for key Sarkozy minister - 09/11/2009

PARIS, Rory Mulholland- France's interior minister sparked a storm of protest and accusations of racism Thursday after a video showed him making an apparently derogatory joke about French citizens of...

Porn, fireworks, diamonds made with child labor: US - 09/11/2009

WASHINGTON - Children are used to produce everything from pornography in Ukraine to fireworks in the Philippines and diamonds in Sierra Leone, the US Department of Labor said in a report published...

Mideast Quartet to meet in New York: Erakat - 09/10/2009

RAMALLAH - The Middle East diplomatic Quartet will meet in New York in two weeks time, the chief Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erakat announced on Wednesday. The Quartet -- the European Union,...

Britain hails hero soldier killed in Afghanistan - 09/10/2009

LONDON - Britain hailed the courage Wednesday of a British soldier killed in a raid to free a New York Times reporter held by the Taliban in Afghanistan, while lamenting the death of his Afghan...

Berlusconi confesses his love for 'beautiful women' - 09/09/2009

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi professed his love for "beautiful women" on Wednesday as he pointed to his high popularity rating to brush aside a new sex scandal. Berlusconi said...

Brazil to weigh extradition of Italian ex-militant Battisti - 09/09/2009

RIO DE JANEIRO, Claire de Oliveira - Brazil's supreme court will on Wednesday start weighing an extradition demand for Cesare Battisti, a fugitive Italian ex-militant wanted in his homeland for...
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