http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2008 Kansas City Star World 60 Tue, 13 May 2008 10:47:45 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@kansascity.com http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616532.html http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616532.html Tue, 13 May 2008 08:23 CDT The Sudanese government has doubled its bounty for the country's most wanted Darfur rebel leader whose troops staged a daring raid on the outskirts of the capital, state television reported Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/615833.html http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/615833.html Tue, 13 May 2008 06:03 CDT A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades. http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616217.html http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616217.html Tue, 13 May 2008 09:53 CDT Police raided the Ministry of Industry and Trade Tuesday, seizing documents in a widening corruption probe of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616968.html http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616968.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53 CDT YANGON, Myanmar | A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation. But the U.N. chief criticized the ruling military junta for its “unacceptably slow response.” http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616963.html http://www.kansascity.com/659/story/616963.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:55 CDT ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party from the Cabinet on Monday, raising doubts about government stability and Pakistan’s transition to democracy after eight years of military rule. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/617106.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/617106.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:49 CDT Across central China, the toll from Monday’s 7.9-magnitude quake rose to nearly 10,000 dead — the worst to hit the country in more than three decades. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616929.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616929.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:19 CDT WASHINGTON | The Bush administration repeatedly disregarded corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information, two former State Department employees say. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616945.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616945.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:19 CDT DHAKA, Bangladesh | Bangladesh will hold its long-delayed general election at the end of December, the interim leader announced Monday. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616946.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616946.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:19 CDT BEIRUT, Lebanon | Clashes between pro- and anti-government factions jumped to Lebanon’s north Monday. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616914.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616914.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:14 CDT JERUSALEM | President Bush sets off this week to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday, but the festivities are likely to be muted by the dimming prospects for peace during his administration’s waning months. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616341.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616341.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:05 CDT Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wasted no time in naming his new Cabinet on Monday, bringing in loyalists from the Kremlin in what was seen as an effort to shift the center of power to his new place of work. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616122.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616122.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:04 CDT President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term will survive a referendum whose peculiar rules tilt in the populist leader's favor. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616682.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/616682.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:04 CDT Haitian legislators on Monday rejected President Rene Preval's pick for prime minister, extending a monthlong period without a functioning government for the troubled nation. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615749.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615749.html Sun, 11 May 2008 22:53 CDT BAGHDAD | Fighting ebbed and residents emerged from their homes as a deal to halt fighting took effect Sunday in Sadr City. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615751.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615751.html Sun, 11 May 2008 22:53 CDT BELGRADE, Serbia | Serbia’s pro-Western president declared victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in a stunning blow to ultranationalists who tried to thwart the nation’s ambitions to join the European Union. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615646.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615646.html Sun, 11 May 2008 22:28 CDT VIENNA, Austria | At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Gulf region to Latin America recently have approached U.N. officials to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615745.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615745.html Sun, 11 May 2008 22:53 CDT YANGON, Myanmar | Myanmar’s monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615092.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615092.html Sun, 11 May 2008 21:29 CDT The runoff pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615450.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615450.html Sun, 11 May 2008 21:29 CDT Thousands of white-clad people marched silently Sunday to protest a surge of drug-related violence in a Mexican city across from Texas where the No. 2 police officer was shot dead. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615049.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615049.html Sun, 11 May 2008 21:28 CDT Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants clashed Sunday in two separate incidents in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing six people, including two civilians and a news photographer, the army said. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615020.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615020.html Sun, 11 May 2008 21:27 CDT Warplanes and artillery units destroyed key Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq - including a communications center - in a second day of raids on rebel positions, the military said Sunday. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615094.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615094.html Sun, 11 May 2008 21:26 CDT Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations against China's recent crackdown in Tibet. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615032.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615032.html Sun, 11 May 2008 21:26 CDT Sri Lanka's ruling party won control of the country's tense Eastern Province on Sunday after an election that monitors said was marred by voter intimidation and fraud. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615428.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/615428.html Sun, 11 May 2008 21:25 CDT The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear. http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/614464.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/614464.html Sat, 10 May 2008 18:35 CDT SUKHUMI, Georgia | A senior U.S. envoy traveled to the breakaway region of Abkhazia on Saturday seeking to quell spiraling tensions between the federal government and the Russian-backed province. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617302.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617302.html Tue, 13 May 2008 09:14 CDT The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/616895.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/616895.html Tue, 13 May 2008 09:28 CDT Many cyclone victims are getting spoiled food from Myanmar's junta instead of the high-quality supplies being delivered by foreign governments and charities, victims and aid workers said Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617388.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617388.html Tue, 13 May 2008 09:53 CDT A fragile cease-fire failed to stop fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City where the latest clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed 11 men and wounded 19, Iraqi hospital officials said Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617399.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617399.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:38 CDT Officials say Norway's greenhouse gas emissions rose nearly 3 percent to record levels last year. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617406.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617406.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:58 CDT A lawyer says a Pakistani court has cleared the widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of charges of smuggling artifacts. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617445.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617445.html Tue, 13 May 2008 10:43 CDT Saudi Arabia accused Iran of backing what it called a coup by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon - the clearest sign yet of rising regional tensions over the conflict. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617547.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617547.html Tue, 13 May 2008 10:33 CDT Indian police say at least six people were killed and 20 others wounded in five bomb blasts that ripped through the historic city of Jaipur. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617161.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617161.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:04 CDT To see the lingering effects of Kenya's recent post-election violence, combined with the worldwide increase in food prices, look no further than the size of the lunches served at Fatma Abdallah's small neighborhood restaurant in Nairobi's sprawling Majengo slum. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617178.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617178.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:04 CDT One day after an agreement between followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi government to end more than six weeks of fighting, the streets in parts of the vast Shiite slum of Sadr City were deserted, amidst signs of a battle. Wires snaked out of potholes and from underneath tires - signs of past or future roadside bombs; abandoned pickup trucks, destroyed by airstrikes, littered the streets, and bullets or shrapnel scarred the houses. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617183.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617183.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:04 CDT With the beleaguered Lebanese army looking on, opposition and pro-government militias traded gunfire in northern Lebanon Monday in a continuation of the fighting that's killed at least 50 people and paralyzed most of Beirut. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617362.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617362.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:36 CDT "I can't talk now, I think I'm in danger," a reporter in Myanmar whispered into the phone. Click. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617380.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617380.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:03 CDT Japan's powerful lower house of parliament voted Tuesday to allow the country's space programs to be used for national defense, the latest move by Tokyo to give more freedom to the tightly controlled military. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617401.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617401.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:43 CDT An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617407.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617407.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:58 CDT EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana says officials must use all diplomatic means to convince Myanmar's military leaders to let in more emergency aid to cyclone victims. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617458.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617458.html Tue, 13 May 2008 10:28 CDT Colombia extradited 14 top paramilitary warlords - many of them wanted on drug-trafficking charges - to the United States on Tuesday, saying they failed to comply with the peace pact under which they demobilized. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/615897.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/615897.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:35 CDT A fragile cease-fire failed to stop fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City where the latest clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed 11 men and wounded 19, Iraqi hospital officials said Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617172.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617172.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:04 CDT When Ali Ateya was killed last month at the age of 23 - a victim of an American airstrike on a block of concrete tenements in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, according to his family - there was no money for his burial. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617181.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617181.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:04 CDT Serbian voters rebuffed nationalist parties in parliamentary elections Sunday, indicating they wanted to move closer to Europe despite the recognition of Kosovo's independence by many western nations. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617265.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/617265.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:03 CDT A crowded ferry sank during a tropical storm in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 42 people and leaving more than 40 missing, officials said Tuesday.