http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2013Kansas City Star World 60 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:36:41 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/18/4242949/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/18/4242949/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 18 May 2013 11:54 CDT IED kills three soldiers in Afghanistan. Another drowns in combat there. 681996 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/11/4230415/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/11/4230415/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 11 May 2013 12:21 CDT IED kills five in Afghanistan. Aircraft crash in Kyrgyzstan kills three. Two Marines die in combat in Afghanistan. 681996 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/04/4218063/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/04/4218063/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 04 May 2013 14:31 CDT A vehicle crash killed two soldiers. An MC-12 crash killed four Air Force personnel. An IED killed a soldier. 681996 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253772/canada-qatar-gives-up-bid-to-relocate.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253772/canada-qatar-gives-up-bid-to-relocate.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 10:20 CDT Canada's foreign minister says Qatar has abandoned its bid relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Montreal to the tiny emirate. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253462/kerrys-focus-on-peace-talks-not.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253462/kerrys-focus-on-peace-talks-not.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 06:15 CDT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253604/niger-government-no-hostages-in.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253604/niger-government-no-hostages-in.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 06:55 CDT With the help of French special forces, Niger's military on Friday killed the last two jihadists holed up inside a dormitory on the grounds of a military garrison in the desert town of Agadez, and freed at least two soldiers who had been held hostage by the extremists, according to French and Nigerien officials. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253290/earthquake-hits-russias-far-east.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253290/earthquake-hits-russias-far-east.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 01:40 CDT A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253629/explosion-hits-heart-of-afghan.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253629/explosion-hits-heart-of-afghan.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 07:20 CDT A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. The explosion was followed by an hours-long gunbattle in the central district. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253664/uk-military-jet-launched-to-probe.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253664/uk-military-jet-launched-to-probe.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 08:30 CDT Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said. The incident further rattled the U.K. just days after a British soldier was brutally killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253453/kerry-blasts-iranian-election.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253453/kerry-blasts-iranian-election.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 06:10 CDT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry harshly criticized Iranian authorities on Friday for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates, suggesting that Tehran is standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253735/third-term-begins-for-ecuadors.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253735/third-term-begins-for-ecuadors.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45 CDT Ecuador's Rafael Correa is starting a third term as president under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253358/syria-govt-to-take-part-in-peace.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253358/syria-govt-to-take-part-in-peace.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:00 CDT The Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United States, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253638/un-nuke-agencys-iran-probe-driven.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253638/un-nuke-agencys-iran-probe-driven.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 07:30 CDT The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253270/suspected-kashmiri-rebels-kill.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253270/suspected-kashmiri-rebels-kill.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 00:40 CDT Four Indian army soldiers and a suspected rebel were killed in fighting in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Friday, officials said. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253476/top-swiss-negotiator-in-tax-disputes.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253476/top-swiss-negotiator-in-tax-disputes.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 06:50 CDT Switzerland's top negotiator in talks to resolve disputes over tax evasion with Europe and the U.S. is stepping down. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253435/abe-on-1st-trip-to-myanmar-by.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253435/abe-on-1st-trip-to-myanmar-by.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 05:15 CDT Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Myanmar on Friday on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Tokyo bids to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of frosty relations with the previous military regime. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253387/foreign-preacher-takes-rare-turn.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253387/foreign-preacher-takes-rare-turn.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 04:15 CDT The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253671/kenyas-mental-hospital-drugs-confines.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253671/kenyas-mental-hospital-drugs-confines.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 08:35 CDT Patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them in a comatose-like state, factors that may have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients, an advocacy group said Friday. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253289/police-suicidal-jumpers-fall-kills.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253289/police-suicidal-jumpers-fall-kills.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 01:30 CDT South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253630/egypt-3-women-killed-in-honor.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253630/egypt-3-women-killed-in-honor.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 07:15 CDT An Egyptian security official says 10 male relatives have killed a mother and her two daughters on suspicion of moral offenses - so-called "honor killings." 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253417/no-guarantee-of-peace-nkorean.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253417/no-guarantee-of-peace-nkorean.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00 CDT A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253753/3-al-qaida-members-2-soldiers.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253753/3-al-qaida-members-2-soldiers.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00 CDT A security official says al-Qaida gunmen attacked a military position in a southern province, touching off fighting that left three militants and two soldiers dead. 681997 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253365/emergency-landing-closes-both.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/24/4253365/emergency-landing-closes-both.html#storylink=rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:25 CDT A British Airways jet made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport Friday after developing a technical problem after takeoff. TV footage showed smoke streaming from one of the engines. 681997