March 23, 2008

Thousands of pilgrims gathered at the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square for Pope Benedict’s open-air Easter Mass. In his Easter message, the Pope urged solutions to world trouble spots including Sudan’s troubled Darfur region and Somalia in Africa, the tormented Middle East, and Tibet. Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome.
Addressing the throng of pilgrims from the [...]

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is on the campaign trail Saturday as rival Hillary Clinton takes time off at her home in the northeastern state of New York.
Senator Obama took part in a town hall meeting in Medford, in the northwest state of Oregon Saturday, a day after winning a key endorsement in the bid [...]

Security officials in Afghanistan say NATO and Afghan forces have killed more than 40 insurgents in a joint air and ground operation in the south of the country.
The Afghan Defense Ministry Sunday said troops seized a cache of weapons during the operation in Uruzgan province Saturday. The ministry did not provide an exact number of [...]

Iraqi officials say insurgents attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq have killed at least 40 people.
In the Iraqi capital Sunday, gunmen in several cars opened fire on pedestrians in a religiously mixed southern district, killing seven people. A suicide car bomber also killed at least six people in a Shi’ite neighborhood (Shula) of Baghdad.
Earlier, insurgents [...]

March 20, 2008

Al Qaida Terrorist Leader Osama bin Laden, in a new message, has warned the European Union that it will be severely punished for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in European newspapers.
In an audio recording posted to an al-Qaida-affiliated Web site al-Ekhlaas late Wednesday, a voice said to be that of bin Laden’s says publishing [...]

March 17, 2008

Since 2003, demonstrations against the United States have become commonplace, and not just in countries historically opposed to U.S. policies. Major protests against the U.S.-led war in Iraq have been mounted in dozens of countries allied with Washington, including Canada, Britain, Germany, and Japan.
America’s image has perhaps suffered the most in the Arab world, according [...]

Authorities in Afghanistan say a suicide car bomber has killed three NATO soldiers and four Afghans in southern Helmand province.
The Danish defense ministry has confirmed that two Danish soldiers were killed in Monday’s attack near the town of Girishk. The Czech defense ministry also said one of its soldiers died in the bombing.
NATO officials [...]

Tibet’s government-in-exile, which operates from the northern Indian town of Dharamsala, says it wants the international community and the United Nations to send delegations to Tibet to verify how and why the protests erupted in the region.
Beijing says the violence in Tibet has been engineered by supporters of the Dalai Lama. The spokesman for Tibet’ [...]

An explosion rocked Baghdad Monday as U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived for an unannounced visit.
Few details have been released about the blast that occurred shortly after Cheney arrived today.
The vice president is expected to meet with Iraqi leaders and U.S. military officials while in Baghdad.
Cheney’s stop in Iraq is part of a Middle East [...]

Stock markets in Japan and Hong Kong plummeted on fears that even heavyweights in the financial sector could collapse in the U.S sub-prime mortgage crisis. As Naomi Martig reports from Hong Kong, the U.S. dollar also hit a 13-year low against the yen.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell more than five percent in Monday trading, [...]