Insurgents fired rockets into an American base in Afghanistan and damaged the parked plane of the visiting chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, the US-led military coalition said Tuesday. The general was safe in his quarters at the time but had to … CSX train derails near Baltimore, killing two - Washington Post
Aug. 21, 2012 – Authorities outside Baltimore say a CSX train hauling coal derailed and fell from a bridge in downtown Ellicott City, Md. killing two people and crushing vehicles in a parking lot. (/Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: SuperFan … Ethiopian strongman and Western ally, Meles, dies | - Reuters
By Aaron Maasho | ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, regarded by the West as a bulwark against Islamic militancy, died overnight in a Brussels hospital after a long battle with illness. Speculation that Meles, 57, … India parliament adjourned over $33bn coal scandal - BBC News
India's parliament has been adjourned for a day after opposition MPs called on PM Manmohan Singh to quit over a recent report that the country lost $33bn by selling coalfields cheaply. Angry MPs shouted and crowded aisles in both the upper and lower … Pa. woman, 72, robbed twice in a single day - Sacramento Bee
AP MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. — Police say a western Pennsylvania woman had her checkbook stolen and as she went to the police station to report the crime, her purse was swiped. Seventy-two-year-old Harriet Sweger says she was first robbed by a woman who …
WH: Obama doesn't dislike Romney personally - USA TODAY
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The White House is disputing a new book's claim that President Obama has an intense dislike for Republican opponent Mitt Romney. "I can tell you that I've never heard the President express anything like that," said White … Embattled Rep. Akin apologizes again in new TV ad - USA TODAY
Ecuadoreans March In Quito Supporting Asylum To Assange - RTT News
(RTTNews) – Hundreds of Ecuadoreans held a rally in the country's capital Quito on Monday in support of their government's decision granting political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that prompted a standoff with the United Kingdom, … Syria crisis: Obama warns on chemical weapons - live updates - The Guardian
Susan Ahmad, a Damascus suburbs-based activist told the Guardian via Skype that two sets of bodies have been found in areas close to the capital today. We discovered today two massacres, one massacre in al-Tal where we found two bodies in the military … Forecast: Some clouds, some sun, some showers; nice weekend still ahead - Washington Post (blog)
By Matt Rogers Today: Variable cloudiness. 80-84. Chance PM shower/storms. | Tonight: Partly cloudy, shower/storm chances. 60-68. | Tomorrow: Partly sunny with shower/storm risk. 81-85. | Get Express Forecast by E-mail This seemingly perpetual frontal … Veteran Japanese war correspondent killed while covering fighting in Syria
TOKYO – A Japanese war correspondent was shot and killed while covering Syria’s civil war, her family and the government said Tuesday.
Turkmenistan launches second political party
ASHGABAT (Reuters) – Turkmenistan launched its second political party on Tuesday, a token nod to democracy unlikely to pose any challenge to the absolute rule of President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov in the reclusive, gas-rich Central Asian state. The 300-member Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs held its inaugural meeting two years after the president ordered the creation of a multi-party system in the ex-Soviet republic. … Vietnam bank mogul's arrest spooks investors
Vietnam said Tuesday it had arrested a top banking tycoon for illegal business activities, sending ripples through financial markets as the central bank urged the public not to panic. Israel chief rabbi in German circumcision talks
Israel's chief rabbi is in Germany for talks aimed at smoothing over a controversy over the legality of circumcising young boys. One dead in Lebanon clashes echoing Syria conflict
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – One person was killed and several dozen wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli in another spillover from the war in neighboring Syria, security and medical sources said on Tuesday. Gunmen in the Sunni district of Bab al-Tabbaneh and their Alawite rivals in Jebel Mohsen exchanged gun and grenade fire in sporadic fighting through the night, despite the presence of Lebanese army troops in the port city, residents said. … Thousands gather for Togo demo as police vow to block
Several thousand people gathered for a protest march in the Togolese capital on Tuesday, setting up a potential confrontation with authorities vowing to block them from entering a main commercial area. Israel embassy in Dublin evacuated after device found
DUBLIN (Reuters) – The Israeli embassy in Dublin was evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious device was found on the premises, police said. The army’s bomb-disposal team was at the scene to investigate, a police spokesman said. “A suspicious device was found and we were contacted. The building is being evacuated,” the spokesman said. (Reporting by Conor Humphries; Editing by Jon Hemming)
Oil prices above $96 amid broader market gains
The price of oil rose Tuesday, buoyed by gains in other financial markets, as investors awaited the release this week of the minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting that will give clues as to the intentions of the U.S. central bank. Three religions meet in suburban Paris prayer space
BUSSY-SAINT-GEORGES, France (Reuters) – Chief Abbess Manchen Shih gazed through a first-floor window of her vast wood and concrete temple as shaven-headed nuns in mustard robes prepared for midday prayers, cooking rice as an offering to the Buddha. “Look! You can see the mosque and the Laotian temple,” she said, gesturing at two half-finished buildings rising from a weed-ridden site in Bussy-Saint-Georges, 30 km (20 miles) east of Paris. Like many of the new towns that have sprung up since the 1960s to ease urban overcrowding, more than half of Bussy’s 25,000 residents are immigrants. …
Court: referendum to oust Romania president fails
Romania’s constitutional court has ruled that a referendum to whether to impeach the country’s president has failed because the minimum voter threshold was not reached.
Hopes for European rescue plan underpin markets
Hopes that the European Central Bank will reach a deal to help Spain and Italy borrow at cheaper rates nudged financial markets higher on Tuesday. Japan 'to replace China, S. Korea, US envoys'
Japan will shortly replace its ambassadors to China, South Korea and the United States in an unusual simultaneous move amid difficulties in Tokyo's dealings with all three, reports said. Rights group urges Vietnam to probe dissident beating
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Vietnam to investigate a violent attack on a prominent dissident lawyer involved in a string of anti-China demonstrations. 
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