Obama brings Mideast leaders together for peace push
By Matt Spetalnick and Jeffrey Heller
Reuters
WASHINGTON | Wed Sep 1, 2010 9:25pm EDT
President Barack Obama urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Wednesday not to let the chance for peace slip away, bringing them together for ceremonial handshakes at the White House on the eve of relaunching direct talks.
U.S., Iraqis mark end of combat under cloud of pessimism
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
September 2, 2010
Reporting from Baghdad —
In a crystal-chandeliered palace once occupied by Saddam Hussein, American and Iraqi leaders gathered Wednesday for the latest ceremony to herald an independent, democratic Iraq.
As the American combat mission officially ended, Iraqi politicians, security officers and civil servants spoke of a daunting series of challenges they face between now and the end of 2011, when the last of nearly 50,000 remaining American troops assisting Iraqi forces are scheduled to have departed.
US charges Pakistani Taliban leader
Aljazeera English
Last Modified: 01 Sep 2010 20:01
US prosecutors have charged Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, with organising an attack that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December.
The US Justice department said on Wednesday that Mehsud, believed to be in the tribal areas of Pakistan, was charged with conspiracy to kill Americans overseas and to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani subjected to mock execution
Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Ian Black
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 31 August 2010 20.18 BST
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, was told on Saturday that she was to be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but the sentence was not carried out, it emerged tonight.
Chilean miners receive first hot meal in three weeks
BBC
1 September 2010 Last updated at 19:56 ET
Chilean miners trapped underground after a rock collapse have received their first hot meal in 26 days.
Meatballs, chicken and rice were piped through a tube to the 33 miners, who are stuck 700m (2,300ft) below the surface.
60 states to lobby U.N. for currency transaction tax
By John Irish
Reuters
PARIS | Wed Sep 1, 2010 3:26pm EDT
A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development aid, ministers said on Wednesday.
Factories busier in China and U.S. while Europe slows
By Jonathan Cable and Zhou Xin
Reuters
LONDON/BEIJING | Wed Sep 1, 2010 3:13pm EDT
Manufacturing output in China, the United States and Russia accelerated in August, but European factory activity expanded more slowly.
Asylum seekers protest in Australia
Aljazeera English
Last Modified: 01 Sep 2010 09:51
Dozens of Afghan asylum seekers have broken out of a detention centre in northern Australia and held a sit-in near a major highway to protest against the long delays in processing their refugee applications, police say.
More than 70 men were peacefully taken back into police custody after their protest, while five others were taken to a hospital to be treated for dehydration and heat exhaustion, police said on Wednesday.
N.Korea seeks stronger ties with China
Reuters
BEIJING | Wed Sep 1, 2010 10:26am EDT
North Korea vowed to strengthen military ties with China on Wednesday, days after the North's leader Kim Jong-il finished a visit aimed at bolstering the bond with his isolated country's sole major supporter.
Deadly riots in Mozambique over rising prices
BBC
1 September 2010 Last updated at 15:00 ET
Six people, including two children, are reported to have been killed during riots in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, over rising food and fuel prices.
But police spokesman Pedro Cossa told the AFP news agency only four people had died, and denied police had fired live rounds at the demonstrators after they blocked roads and threw stones.
U.S. border officer gets 20 years for corruption,
Daniel Hernandez in Mexico City
LA Times
September 1, 2010 | 1:20 pm
A former U.S. Customs employee is headed to federal prison for 20 years after being convicted of corruption and smuggling charges in El Paso, Texas. Martha Alicia Garnica, 43, a former Customs and Border Protection officer, conspired to smuggle marijuana and undocumented migrants into the United States and bribed or attempted to bribe fellow officers, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said in a statement. |
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