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7 defendants convicted in Portugal sex abuse trial

By BARRY HATTON 2010-09-03T13:21:47Z
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- A Portuguese court found six men and one woman guilty Friday of crimes relating to child sex abuse in a major trial that lasted nearly six years, a prosecution lawyer said....
48 min ago By BARRY HATTON

Crowds attack home of Iranian opposition leader

By NASSER KARIMI 2010-09-03T12:34:24Z
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of an Iranian opposition leader with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to keep him from attending a key rally on Friday....
2 hr ago By NASSER KARIMI

Police say attacks on Pakistani minorities kill 44

By ABDUL SATTAR and RIAZ KHAN 2010-09-03T13:31:04Z
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Suicide bombings targeting religious minorities killed at least 44 people in Pakistan on Friday, sharply driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding....
39 min ago By ABDUL SATTAR and RIAZ KHAN

Small signal, big meaning? Castro in military duds

By PAUL HAVEN 2010-09-03T13:22:52Z
HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro dusted off his full military uniform for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance....
47 min ago By PAUL HAVEN

After 17 years, fugitive tycoon shows in UK court

By 2010-09-03T12:59:44Z
LONDON (AP) -- A Turkish Cypriot businessman who voluntarily returned to Britain after 17 years to face fraud charges learned Friday that he will have to wait more than a year for the trial he insists will vindicate him....
1 hr ago

Gates sees progress in tour of Afghan war zone

By ANNE GEARAN 2010-09-03T13:02:04Z
COMBAT OUTPOST SENJERAY, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he saw and heard evidence that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province....
1 hr ago By ANNE GEARAN

Kenya allows Int'l Criminal Court to open office

By TOM MALITI 2010-09-03T12:38:51Z
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya on Friday allowed the International Criminal Court to open an office in the country, a development that comes after Kenya's commitment to the court came into question when the nation hosted Sudan's indicted leader last week....
2 hr ago By TOM MALITI

Suicide blast kills Tajik policeman, wounds 25

By OLGA TUTUBALINA 2010-09-03T12:23:00Z
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) -- A suicide car bomb blast tore through police offices in Tajikistan's second-largest city Friday, killing one policeman and injuring 25 people, local officials said....
2 hr ago By OLGA TUTUBALINA

Judges: Karadzic trial could take extra 2 years

By MIKE CORDER 2010-09-03T12:11:21Z
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Judges warned Friday that Radovan Karadzic's genocide trial could stretch into 2014 - two years longer than expected - if prosecutors and the former Bosnian Serb leader do not speed up the case....
2 hr ago By MIKE CORDER

Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in troubled border state

By MARK WALSH 2010-09-03T10:47:38Z
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war....
3 hrs ago By MARK WALSH

 

 

 

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