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L ’AQUILA, Italy | The failure to agree on swift, concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the summit meeting of the world’s most advanced economies pointed to hard bargaining ahead on global warming — especially on the politically sensitive issue of who should go first. President Barack Obama and his counterparts in the Group of Eight, who on Wednesday began two days of meetings in this central Italian mountain town, announced broad agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat rising global temperatures over the next four decades.
K ABUL | U.S. Marines trapped Taliban fighters in a residential compound and persuaded the insurgents to allow women and children to leave. The troops then moved in — but discovered that the militants had slipped out, dressed in women’s burqa robes. The insurgents, who may owe their lives to the new U.S. commander’s emphasis on limiting civilian casualties, were among hundreds of militants who have fled the offensive the Marines launched last week in southern Helmand province.
MOSCOW | After reaching out to the Islamic world in speeches in Turkey and Egypt, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought once more to speak directly to a hostile audience — the Russian public. Obama said Tuesday that America and Russia “share common interests” in building a secure, free and flourishing world.
MOSCOW | Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev on Monday agreed to cut up to a third of the nuclear warheads in their strategic arsenals but acknowledged that disagreements linger about a proposed U.S. missile defense shield. Obama and Medvedev stressed that the proposal marked a turn away from post-Cold War lows of the past few years.
URUMQI, China | Ethnic Uighurs scuffled with armed police today in a fresh protest in Xinjiang, where at least 156 people have been killed and more than 1,400 people arrested in western China’s worst ethnic violence in decades. Most of the group of about 200 Uighurs were women protesting the arrests of their husbands in the crackdown on members of the Muslim minority by Chinese authorities since the violence was sparked Sunday in the Xinjian provincial capital.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras | Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the main Honduras airport Sunday because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside. His Venezuelan pilots circled the airport and decided not to risk a crash.
MEXICO CITY | The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades appeared to be making a comeback in Sunday’s midterm congressional elections, scoring big with voters for the first time since it lost the presidency in 2000. Early returns with about a fifth of the ballots counted showed the Institutional Revolutionary Party winning about 35 percent of votes for the lower house of Congress, against about 27 percent for President Felipe Calderon’s conservative National Action Party.
NAWA, Afghanistan | Taliban militants were nowhere in sight as the columns of U.S. Marines walked a third straight day across southern Afghanistan. But the desert heat proved an enemy in its own right, with several troops falling victim Saturday to temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The Marines carry 50-100 pounds on their backs. But because they are marching through farmland on foot, they can’t carry nearly as much water as their thirst demands.
KABUL, Afghanistan | A U.S. soldier who inexplicably walked off his barren military base earlier this week was captured by Taliban militants hours later, military officials said Thursday. It’s believed to be the first time insurgents here have captured a U.S. serviceman in the almost-eight-year war.
C ANCUN, Mexico | Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico. World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan and health ministers from around the globe huddled Thursday in Cancun for a two-day summit to design strategies for battling the pandemic. Nations attending include the United States, Canada, China, Britain and Brazil.
NAWA, Afghanistan | U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001.
Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early today. The operation represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military’s new counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
TEHRAN, Iran | In fresh displays of defiance, Iran’s opposition leader told supporters Wednesday “it’s not yet too late” to push for their rights. Embattled opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi defied warnings from Iran’s leaders that no further protests would be tolerated following official certification of the results that declared victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras | Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated Wednesday for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest. Meanwhile, thousands more rallied in favor of the military-backed government.
The Pentagon said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest a coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a move that suggests the U.S. could further curtail dealings with the new Honduran government.
Elia Quiroz was about to go to bed in his home near the railroad station in this Tuscan seaside town when the train rumbled by. His kitchen table started shaking.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.
M ORONI, Comoros | Teams searching the Indian Ocean after the crash early Tuesday of a Yemeni passenger jet rescued a girl who appeared to be the sole survivor of the 153 people on board. The jetliner — an aging Airbus 310 flying the last leg of a Yemenia airlines flight — crashed as it attempted to land amid severe turbulence and howling winds.
BAGHDAD | Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad’s background track.
There’s jubilation in the streets of Iraq this week as U.S. forces turn over control of the cities to Iraqi forces. Iraqis see the move as a step toward full independence. American efforts that made this milestone possible should not be underestimated.
A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China Thursday evening, injuring at least 336 people and collapsing 10,000 homes, state media said. The magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province's Yao'an county, damaged another 30,000 homes, the Xinhua News Agency said.
Pakistan will allow some 2 million people who fled an army offensive against the Taliban in Swat Valley to return home next week, the prime minister announced Thursday, saying the region was now secure and essential services restored.
A truck filled with explosives that police believe may have been destined for Kabul blew up on a highway Thursday, killing 25 people - more than half of them children walking to school. Two American soldiers died in combat as the U.S. military reported the number of roadside bombs in Afghanistan last month was nearly three times the figure for Iraq.
Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said.
U.S. forces on Thursday released five Iranian officials detained in January 2007 in northern Iraq on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants, Iranian and Iraqi officials said.
Peru's government doesn't provide adequate care for pregnant women in the impoverished highlands and jungle, a failure reflected in one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the hemisphere, a human rights group said Thursday.
U.S. military authorities on Thursday released four Iranian diplomats it had held prisoner for the past two years as anti-government insurgents staged mass bombings for a second consecutive day, killing dozens and wounding about 100.
Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country - and possibly the world - to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.
Police in western Mexico have found four hacked-up bodies in plastic bags on the side of a highway.
There is no Palestinian leadership, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest advisers declared in a report published Thursday, raising new questions about how Israel intends to proceed with efforts to renew stalled peace talks.
Despite a request for a wives' boycott of this week's G-8 summit to protest the personal behavior of the Italian prime minister, first lady Michelle Obama and other spouses came as planned - and found themselves touring with a former topless model-turned-government minister filling in as the official hostess for the prime minister's soon-to-be ex-wife.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's latest public appearance is spurring fresh speculation that his health might be worsening, almost a year after he reportedly suffered a stroke.
The United States deported a key figure in Bolivia's last military dictatorship back home Thursday to serve a 30-year prison sentence for crimes including genocide and political assassinations.
It started with some boys fighting over fireworks. It wound up as a clash between hundreds of villagers from two competing ethnic groups.
An appeals court found insufficient evidence to warrant the trial of a Guatemalan whose Twitter message led to his arrest on charges of inciting financial panic.
Michelle Obama and other first spouses toured the center of L'Aquila on Thursday to see the destruction wrought by an earthquake in the Italian city hosting world leaders for the Group of Eight summit this week.
From superstars to tribal dancers, thousands of African artists are celebrating their troubled continent's culture and potential in an epic festival - and looking back at what they've accomplished and squandered in four decades of freedom from colonial rule.
Egyptian authorities arrested 25 people on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil pipelines and ships in the Suez Canal, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but Johann Sebastian Bach was the one the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.
Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.
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