Monday, April 2, 2012

Official: Attacks in Thailand linked

Official: Attacks in Thailand linked

Official: Attacks in Thailand linked

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:50 AM PDT

A series of deadly car bombings in two southern Thai provinces over the weekend are linked, officials said Sunday.

Power back to ship off Indonesia

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:52 AM PDT

Engineers have restored propulsion power to a cruise ship carrying about 1,000 people after it was left adrift off Indonesia by an engine fire, cruise company Azamara Club Cruises said.

CNN exclusive: Escape from Homs

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Footage exclusive to CNN documents British photographer Paul Conroy's dramatic escape weeks ago from Homs, Syria.

Falklands war wounds still fresh, 30 years later

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT

The war itself lasted for less than three months. But 30 years on, wounds from the Falklands war are fresh, and Britain and Argentina are still at odds over the chilly, windswept island chain in the South Atlantic.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Do you know where this photo was taken?

Fiji floods leave hundreds homeless

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:33 AM PDT

Severe flooding in the Pacific island nation of Fiji has killed four people and left 800 people seeking shelter in evacuation centers, a government official said Monday.

Bin Laden relatives jailed in Pakistan

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:41 AM PDT

A Pakistani judge on Monday sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters to a month and a half in prison for illegally living in Pakistan, the widows' lawyer said.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Do you know where this photo was taken?

2 kids killed in Afghanistan acid attack

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:36 AM PDT

Two children have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, the provincial police chief said Saturday.

Officials: 3 killed as human sacrifices

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:40 AM PDT

Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Sonora have arrested eight people accused of killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for Santa Muerte -- the saint of death -- officials said Friday.

Suu Kyi victory could bring Myanmar in from cold

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Long-imprisoned Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's political party claimed victory Monday in parliamentary elections in Myanmar, a dramatic development in the southeast Asian country's efforts to end its international isolation.

Quake-hit area in Mexico shaken again

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 01:17 PM PDT

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck southern Mexico on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Bin Laden relatives jailed in Pakistan

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:41 AM PDT

A Pakistani judge on Monday sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two daughters to a month and a half in prison for illegally living in Pakistan, the widows' lawyer said.

Officials: Death toll in March lowest in Iraq since U.S. invasion

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 04:55 AM PDT

Violence in Iraq killed 112 people in March, the lowest monthly death toll since the U.S-led invasion in 2003, officials said Monday.

Dozens dead in Siberia plane crash

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:07 AM PDT

A twin-engine plane carrying 43 people crashed soon after takeoff in Siberia on Monday, killing all but 12 people on board, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said.

4 dead, hundreds displaced in Fiji floods

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:07 AM PDT

Severe flooding in the Pacific island nation of Fiji has killed four people and left 800 people seeking shelter in evacuation centers, a government official said Monday.

Israel places high-profile prisoner in solitary

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 10:17 AM PDT

Israel has placed high-profile prisoner Marwan Barghouti in solitary confinement following his public call for Palestinians to participate in popular resistance against Israel's occupation of lands Palestinians claim, the Israeli Prisons Authority said Monday.

Police: Two children killed in Afghanistan acid attack

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:36 AM PDT

Two children have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, the provincial police chief said Saturday.

Racial abuse by London police?

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:42 AM PDT

First came the physical assaults, said the young man arrested by London police during last summer's riots.

Hungary leader quits over plagiarism

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 07:26 AM PDT

Hungarian President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday, the prime minister's press office said, days after vowing he would not quit over allegations that he plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation.

Far-right rally in Denmark

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:53 AM PDT

Clashes broke out Saturday as far-right groups from across Europe gathered in Denmark for a rally they said was meant to make their governments act against the threat of Islamic extremism.

FARC readies to release hostages

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:17 AM PDT

Two Brazilian military helicopters landed in Colombia Monday, waiting for word from rebels to begin a long-awaited mission.

Ex-Mexican president dies

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:48 AM PDT

Miguel de la Madrid, Mexico's president as the country struggled through an economic crisis in the 1980s, died Sunday. He was 77.

Officials: 3 killed as human sacrifices

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:40 AM PDT

Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Sonora have arrested eight people accused of killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for Santa Muerte -- the saint of death -- officials said Friday.

Muslim Brotherhood to enter Egypt race

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:46 AM PDT

The political arm of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has announced plans to run one of its leaders in the country's presidential elections in May, reversing an earlier pledge to stay out of the race.
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