Baby Sitter, 11, Charged With Murdering 2-Year-Old
An 11-year-old girl helping her mother baby-sit has been charged with murdering a 2-year-old, who suffered blunt-force trauma to the head, torso and buttocks, Georgia authorities say. Police in Sandy...
View ArticleObama urges new ways to tackle poverty
President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global poverty and said his administration would focus its help to the poor on promoting economic growth and fighting corruption....
View ArticleObama Presses Hu on Yuan as Trade Imbalances Divide G-20
President Barack Obama pressed his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on allowing faster currency appreciation to help narrow trade imbalances that threaten to trigger protectionism and imperil the global...
View ArticleU.S. Wields Less Clout at Summit
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and DAMIAN PALETTA SEOUL—President Barack Obama headed toward the close of the Group of 20 summit, weakened by an anemic economic recovery and an election drubbing that have left...
View ArticleProtestors in Haiti attack UN peacekeepers in cholera backlash
Crowds hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest over the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis
View ArticleNATO summit a turning point in Afghan war: U.S. envoy
(Reuters) - The NATO summit in Lisbon this weekend will mark a turning point in the prosecution of the war in Afghanistan as it lays out a roadmap to end combat operations by 2014, the top U.S. envoy...
View ArticleMilitants in Nigeria abduct 7 Exxon Mobil workers
The main militant group in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, said Tuesday it kidnapped seven local workers from an Exxon Mobil Corp. offshore rig...
View ArticlePM insists he'll win support for freeze; no J'lem deal yet
“My fellow ministers will accept [the freeze and incentives package],” says Netanyahu; talks continue with Washington on language. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced confidence on Thursday night...
View ArticleAP Interview: Richardson has hope for Koreas
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Fresh off a peacekeeping trip to the Korean peninsula, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson warned violence between North and South Korea could flare anew if the South continues its...
View ArticleFormer Liberian President Boycotts War Crimes Trial
PARIS — Expectations that an important war crimes trial would conclude this week were upended on Tuesday when Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia, and his defense lawyers boycotted the...
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