http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2012Kansas City Star World 60 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:53:48 CST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/04/3409700/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/04/3409700/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:00 CST The U.S. Defense Department's latest identifications of fatalities in Afghanistan: 681996 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/28/3396815/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/28/3396815/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:00 CST The U.S. Defense Department's latest identifications of fatalities: 681996 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/21/3383502/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/21/3383502/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:00 CST The U.S. Defense Department's latest identifications of fatalities from Afghanistan: 681996 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/14/3370493/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/14/3370493/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:00 CST The U.S. Defense Department's latest identifications of fatalities in Afghanistan: 681996 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418559/thai-prime-ministers-party-seeks.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418559/thai-prime-ministers-party-seeks.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:46 CST Thailand's ruling party has proposed a controversial plan to amend the country's constitution, which was drafted after a 2006 coup that ousted Thaksin Shinawatra from power. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418467/mexican-army-finds-15-tons-of.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418467/mexican-army-finds-15-tons-of.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:41 CST Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419053/9-sentenced-for-london-stock-exchange.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419053/9-sentenced-for-london-stock-exchange.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:41 CST A British judge on Thursday sent nine men to prison for al-Qaida inspired plots to bomb the London Stock Exchange and set up a terrorist training camp. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418816/us-envoy-urges-renewed-bahrain.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418816/us-envoy-urges-renewed-bahrain.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:46 CST The U.S. State Department's top human rights envoy is urging Bahrain's Sunni monarchy and Shiite-led opposition to resume talks aimed at ending yearlong unrest in the strategic Gulf nation. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418660/jordan-holds-ex-intelligence-chief.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418660/jordan-holds-ex-intelligence-chief.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:51 CST A Jordanian prosecutor says he has ordered a powerful former intelligence chief to be detained for 14 days pending a probe on charges of embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and abuse of office. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418569/us-embassy-to-improve-processing.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418569/us-embassy-to-improve-processing.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:28 CST The U.S. Embassy in China is promising to streamline visa requests and hire more people to process applicants as part of President Barack Obama's push to boost tourism to the United States. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418516/china-says-syria-opposition-delegation.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418516/china-says-syria-opposition-delegation.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:21 CST China's Foreign Ministry says that a Syrian opposition delegation visited Beijing and met Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3418379/mexican-army-finds-15-tons-of.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3418379/mexican-army-finds-15-tons-of.html#storylink=rss Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:21 CST Mexico's army says its troops seized 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419005/somalias-al-shabab-joins-al-qaida.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419005/somalias-al-shabab-joins-al-qaida.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:16 CST The Somali militant group al-Shabab has formally joined al-Qaida, according to a video translation released Thursday of a message from al-Qaida's leader. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418779/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-wants.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418779/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-wants.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:16 CST Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called Thursday on the ruling generals to sack the military-appointed government, saying it has failed to manage the deteriorating security and economic situation in the country. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418594/gorbachev-putin-exhausted-himself.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418594/gorbachev-putin-exhausted-himself.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:16 CST Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has "exhausted" his potential as Russia's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev declared Thursday, saying Putin's inability to change the Kremlin's political system might prompt more massive anti-government protests. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418560/parliament-to-vote-on-romanias.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418560/parliament-to-vote-on-romanias.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:46 CST Romania's Parliament approved a new government led by a former spy chief on Thursday, and he promised to keep up the austerity measures the country imposed to win international loans but to raise public-sector salaries as soon as he can. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3417520/mexico-road-project-sets-up-fight.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3417520/mexico-road-project-sets-up-fight.html#storylink=rss Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:46 CST The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419070/pardoned-moroccan-clerics-say.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419070/pardoned-moroccan-clerics-say.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:51 CST Three conservative clerics whose arrests nine years ago heralded the beginning of Morocco's crackdown on Islamists called on Thursday for a new investigation into their country's worst terrorist attack. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418820/surgery-kit-said-to-be-nazis-withdrawn.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418820/surgery-kit-said-to-be-nazis-withdrawn.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:56 CST A surgical kit advertised as belonging to a Nazi concentration camp commandant has been withdrawn from sale, and questions have been raised about its origins. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418661/polands-leaders-honor-nobel-poet.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418661/polands-leaders-honor-nobel-poet.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:51 CST A funeral held for Nobel-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska drew more than 1,000 people to a snowy cemetery on Thursday, and Poland's president praised her for producing verse that allowed readers to see the "tiniest particles of beauty" in everyday life. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418572/uganda-govt-distances-itself-from.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3418572/uganda-govt-distances-itself-from.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:31 CST Uganda's government does not support a parliamentarian's decision to reintroduce a bill that originally proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts, the government said in responding to renewed criticism by rights activists who oppose the bill. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3417825/prince-harry-qualifies-as-apache.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3417825/prince-harry-qualifies-as-apache.html#storylink=rss Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:06 CST Britain's defense ministry says Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, graduating as the best co-pilot gunner in his class after 18 months of training. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3418389/china-syria-veto-wont-hurt-cooperation.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/08/3418389/china-syria-veto-wont-hurt-cooperation.html#storylink=rss Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:31 CST U.S. outrage over Beijing's veto of a U.N. Syria resolution won't affect cooperation on other international issues, a top Chinese diplomat said Thursday, as Beijing announced it had recently hosted a leading Syrian opposition figure. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419020/syrian-forces-renew-bombardment.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/09/3419020/syrian-forces-renew-bombardment.html#storylink=rss Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:26 CST Between blasts of rockets and mortar fire, Syrians used loudspeakers to call for blood donations and medical supplies Thursday in the stricken city of Homs, where a weeklong government offensive has created a deepening humanitarian crisis. 681997