The bodies of 72 Ukrainian miners have been recovered in what is believed to be the worst mining accident in the country’s history. Rescuers are searching for another 30 miners still trapped hundreds of metres underground. More than 360 miners made it to the surface alive after the methane blast in the […]
Uncertainty clouded a bid by a group of Spanish investors for Spain’s flag carrier Iberia Monday after Basque bank BBK said it was still deciding if it would participate and investment fund Omega Capital said it was not involved in the deal.In a statement sent Thursday to stock market regular CNMV, Iberia said it had […]
Al Qaeda fighters fleeing Baghdad and Anbar have moved into Iraq’s volatile north, making that region the country’s most violent, a U.S. commander said on Monday.Army Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, commander of forces in areas north of Baghdad, said that while violence has declined throughout the country, the number of attacks in his region is […]
Partial official results on Monday confirmed victory for the Democratic Party of ex-guerrilla Hashim Thaci in the parliamentary election of Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province, setting up coalition talks.The Central Election Commission said Thaci’s opposition PDK had won 34 percent in Saturday’s ballot, beating the once-dominant Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) into second place.
The LDK saw […]
One of the UK’s most-wanted men, who has spent more than 13 years on the run after murdering an off-duty police officer, has been arrested in the Netherlands, police said today.Dutch police arrested 45-year-old James Hurley, who was jailed for life in 1989 after shooting the policeman during a bank robbery in Hertfordshire, on November […]
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be in Moscow for two days next week for the so-called “two-plus-two” meetings to discuss several bilateral issues with their Russian counterparts, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.
Daniel Fried, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, […]
At least 28 people were killed and 73 others wounded, with 15 of the injured in critical condition after a bus crash with a train in Eastern Cuba late Saturday.
The collision occurred in a small town in the province of Granma at a railroad crossing, 500 miles east of Havana, CNN reports.
The report said that […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will end her three-nation African tour with a visit to the West African Nation of Liberia where she is due to meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. This follows a visit to South Africa where she used her trip to urge President Thabo Mbeki to persuade Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to end […]
International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda announced a $25-million program to help feed people in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
The money will be used to fund the purchase of grain and cooking oil in areas hard hit by Taliban militants.
Canadian officials say this year alone 8,700 tonnes of food have been distributed to about 400,000 people.
Ms. Oda […]
Typhoon Krosa has weakened to a tropical storm after hitting China’s southeast coast with winds of over 120 km an hour. More than 1 million people had been evacuated within the densely populated provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian. No injuries or damage have been reported. Krosa was travelling in land from Taiwan where it left […]