Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Mubarak reform pledge rejected

Mubarak reform pledge rejected


Mubarak reform pledge rejected

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:37 PM PST

Galvanized by the emotional words of a freed Google executive, thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, dismissing the embattled regime's pledges of constitutional reforms.

South Korea agrees to humanitarian talks with North

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 08:28 PM PST

North and South Korea wrapped up working-level military talks Tuesday with no conclusion and agreed to resume discussions on Wednesday.

U.S. presses Pakistan to release diplomat

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 01:52 PM PST

The top U.S. envoy in Pakistan is pressing the country's president to release a jailed American diplomat who allegedly shot and killed two men, a U.S. embassy spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Guardian reporter expelled from Russia

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:37 AM PST

The Guardian newspaper in Britain says its Moscow reporter, Luke Harding, has been expelled from Russia.

Police: 3 men arrested in attempt to lure officers into bomb attack

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:43 AM PST

Police in Northern Ireland said Tuesday they had arrested three men in connection with an attempt to lure officers to their deaths in a bomb attack last month.

ASEAN pushes Thailand-Cambodia talks to resolve temple dispute

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 03:55 PM PST

The chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Tuesday pushed for talks between Thailand and Cambodia to end deadly clashes that have erupted over a temple along the border.

Fallout of Juarez violence felt in El Paso, Texas

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 11:21 AM PST

At one time, teens Carlos Gonzalez, 16, and Juan Carlos Echeverri, 15, were classmates at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas.

Border police, customs officials detained in smuggling raids

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:05 AM PST

After a nearly six-month investigation, authorities launched 70 raids at border crossings and other sites in western Romania Tuesday and detained as many as 100 border police, customs officials and suspected smugglers, police and prosecutors said.

Pakistan bomb blasts kill four and destroy NATO oil tanker

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:56 AM PST

Three bomb blasts in northwest Pakistan killed four security personnel Tuesday and destroyed an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, police told CNN.

Hitler card game maker faces German prosecution

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 03:45 AM PST

Prosecutors in Germany have begun proceedings against a company that makes a card game featuring Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, among others, they said Tuesday.

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