Tripoli, Libya – One of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — Saif al-Arab Gadhafi — was killed after a NATO airstrike, a spokesman for Libya’s government said Sunday at a press conference. Moammar Gadhafi and his wife were in their son’s house when it was targeted, spokesman Musa Ibrahim said. Both of them are in [...]
TOKYO – Criticism of the Japanese government’s handling of the crisis at a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant has increased after an adviser quit in protest of what he lambasted as unsafe, slipshod measures. Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s graduate school and an expert on radiation exposure, announced late Friday that he [...]
SYDNEY – Australia’s third-largest city will run an international competition for a “cutting-edge” design to replace ferry terminals lost during devastating floods earlier this year, government officials said on Saturday. Brisbane’s landmark ferry terminals were destroyed in floods that inundated the city and much of northeastern Queensland state in January. A total of A$145 million [...]
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi called for a mutual cease-fire and negotiations with NATO powers in a live speech on state TV early Saturday, just as NATO bombs struck a government complex in the Libyan capital. The targeted compound included the state television building and a Libyan official alleged the strikes were meant [...]
LA PAZ, Bolivia – A Bolivian couple who hadn’t been able to afford a formal wedding reception got some royal treatment Friday when they shared their day of matrimony with a British prince and his bride. Britain’s ambassador to Bolivia invited Fabianna Rivera, 24, and Alejandro Antezana, 29, to the embassy for a champagne toast [...]
KABUL – The Taliban declared the start of a spring offensive on Saturday, warning they planned to target foreign troops in Afghanistan as well as Afghan security forces and government officials in a wave of attacks across the country. In a statement, the hardline Islamists warned Afghan civilians to stay away from public gatherings, military [...]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning that the prospect of an NDP-led coalition represents a serious threat to the economy — a message he had formerly used as a persistent attack on the Liberals. Harper’s main opponent is now New Democrat Leader Jack Layton, who was experienced a near-meteoric rise in the polls that has [...]
WAKEFIELD, Que. — Mathieu Ravignat is a former communist, current karate instructor and the NDP candidate in Quebec’s Pontiac riding. The man he’s trying to unseat is Canada’s minister of foreign affairs. Conservative sources say Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon is in danger of going down to defeat in his riding across the Ottawa River [...]
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