Monday, May 21, 2012

U.S. warns N. Korea against nuclear test

U.S. warns N. Korea against nuclear test


U.S. warns N. Korea against nuclear test

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:49 AM PDT

The top U.S. envoy for North Korea warned Pyongyang Monday against a possible third nuclear test.

Pakistan restores Twitter

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:49 AM PDT

Pakistan has restored access to Twitter after blocking the popular social networking site over the posting of content it deemed an affront to Muslims, Pakistan's telecom authority said Monday.

World's oceans are 'plasticized'

Posted: 21 May 2012 08:17 PM PDT

A marine expedition of environmentalists has confirmed the bad news it feared -- the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" extends even further than previously known.

Wedding with mermaids

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:21 PM PDT

Two couples in China held their wedding ceremonies underwater in an aquarium.

Lady Gaga faces protests

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:44 AM PDT

Christian groups in the Philippines planned to protest Lady Gaga's performances there Monday and Tuesday, just after Muslim protests have cast doubt whether she will be allowed to perform in Indonesia.

Maids fall to their deaths

Posted: 21 May 2012 08:39 AM PDT

CNN's Liz Neisloss reports on efforts to improve worker safety after nine Singapore maids fell to their deaths this year.

NATO OKs Obama's Afghan timetable

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:20 PM PDT

NATO leaders signed off on U.S. President Barack Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and withdrawal by the end of 2014.

Syria troubles spill into Lebanon

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:20 PM PDT

The impact of Syria's troubles have spread to Lebanon. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports from Beirut.

Taliban take control of schools

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:21 PM PDT

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports on the Taliban's efforts to take control of rural schools in Afghanistan.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 21 May 2012 12:34 PM PDT

Do you know where this photo was taken?

12 students die in Albania bus crash

Posted: 21 May 2012 12:54 PM PDT

A bus carrying Albanian university students plunged hundreds of feet into a ravine Monday, killing at least 12 people according to police.

Four die on Mt. Everest

Posted: 21 May 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Three people died while coming down the southern slope of the mountain during the weekend after reaching Mt. Everest's 8848-meter (29,028 foot) summit, officials said.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 21 May 2012 12:34 PM PDT

Do you know where this photo was taken?

China couple marries underwater

Posted: 21 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Two couples in China held their wedding ceremonies underwater in an aquarium.

Gang rape allegations for Strauss-Kahn

Posted: 21 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT

French prosecutors have widened an investigation into former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged participation in a prostitution ring.

Suicide blast kills more than 100 Yemeni troops

Posted: 21 May 2012 05:03 AM PDT

A suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform killed at least 101 soldiers Monday at the central security headquarters in Yemen, Interior Ministry officials said.

Iran: Nuclear meetings paving way for negotiations

Posted: 21 May 2012 02:03 PM PDT

Iran's talks Monday with the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency helped lay the groundwork for progress in upcoming negotiations, the Iranian regime said.

Greece: Why wheels are coming off

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:32 AM PDT

The wheels are coming off the wagon. The fat lady is about to sing. The proverbial is about to hit the fan. It doesn't matter which saying you use, the facts are inescapable. Greece's membership of the eurozone is untenable under the current conditions and everyone knows it.

Twelve students dead in Albania bus crash

Posted: 21 May 2012 12:54 PM PDT

A bus carrying Albanian university students plunged hundreds of feet into a ravine Monday, killing at least 12 people according to police.

New quake rattles Italy after earlier tremor kills 7

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:07 AM PDT

Northern Italy was shaken by an aftershock Monday morning, a day after a magnitude-6.0 quake killed at least seven people and left thousands of survivors huddling in tents or cars overnight.

Mexico detains 'El Loco' in slayings of 49

Posted: 21 May 2012 02:01 PM PDT

Mexican troops have detained a man who authorities say is one of the principal suspects in the killings of 49 people whose bodies were abandoned near a highway last week.

Soldiers shoot anti-Assad clerics in Lebanon

Posted: 21 May 2012 09:37 AM PDT

In the latest instance of the unrest in Syria spilling across the border into Lebanon, deadly clashes broke out in Beirut on Monday following the shooting death of two anti-Assad clerics at the hands of soldiers.

Four die on Mt. Everest

Posted: 21 May 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Three people died while coming down the southern slope of the mountain during the weekend after reaching Mt. Everest's 8848-meter (29,028 foot) summit, officials said.

Guatemalan seeks 'stolen' daughter

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:46 AM PDT

Loyda Rodriguez says she can still remember the day her daughter was taken.

Canada: Man straps bombs to body

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:51 AM PDT

A British Columbia man who held authorities at bay for more than six hours after allegedly strapping explosives to his body is presumed dead after the house he was holed up in exploded, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Friday.

Ex-Yemeni president hospitalized

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:54 AM PDT

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was admitted Sunday to a military hospital in Sanaa, the second time that he's been to a hospital this month, a government official said.

U.N. nuclear watchdog chief in Iran

Posted: 21 May 2012 10:00 AM PDT

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency arrived in Tehran on Monday for high-level talks after Iran's finance minister suggested oil prices could rise as high as $160 a barrel because of sanctions over its nuclear program.

New Congo war crimes warrants sought

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:53 AM PDT

International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has announced new charges against a former Congolese rebel leader who is also a general in the Congolese Army despite having been already accused of war crimes.

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