GOP presses Rep. Todd Akin to quit Senate race after rape remarks - Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- Leading Republicans sought Monday to pressure Rep. Todd Akin into quitting the US Senate race in Missouri, fearing his ill-considered remarks on abortion and rape would cost the GOP its shot at controlling the chamber and damage the … Obama warns Syria over chemical weapons - euronews
US President Barack Obama has warned Syria that any use of chemical weapons in the country's bloody conflict could provoke a US military response. He also said that if the Syrian regime failed to safeguard its weapons of mass destruction there would be … Court: Ala schools can't check student immigration status; police can ask for ... - Washington Post
ATLANTA -- Part of Alabama's immigration law that ordered public schools to check the citizenship status of new students was ruled unconstitutional Monday by a federal appeals court that also said police in that state and Georgia can demand papers from … Rape remark upsets Republican women - San Francisco Chronicle
Jillian Manus Salzman, a powerhouse donor to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and a proud pro-choice Republican, said she screamed when she heard Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, a GOP candidate for the US Senate, say that victims of "legitimate" rape … Belarus dissident fighting extradition by Ecuador
Less than a year ago, an Ecuadorean judge denied a request to extradite Aliaksandr Barankov to Belarus, the former Soviet bloc nation whose president has been nicknamed "Europe's last dictator." Iran says it has upgraded a short-range missile
Iran’s official news agency says the country has upgraded a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile just weeks after it was test-fired.
Shane Warne to captain Melbourne Stars
Leg-spin legend Shane Warne will captain his Melbourne Twenty20 team this season, he said Tuesday, adding that talks were still underway to bring Olympic sprint king Usain Bolt into the squad. AL Capsules: Canadian Ryan Dempster goes 8 innings as Rangers beat Orioles 5-1
ARLINGTON, Texas – Ryan Dempster pitched eight innings, his longest outing in more than two months and his best since being traded to Texas, and the AL West-leading Rangers beat Baltimore 5-1 on Monday night.
Kyrgyz forces kill fugitive border guard after attack
BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyz security forces on Tuesday killed a fugitive border guard suspected of shooting dead five people at a remote frontier post, the border guard service of the former Soviet republic said. Border guards and police found the lone gunman, named as Balbai Kulbarak uulu, in a mountain gorge near the Kyrgyz border with Kazakhstan a day after he fled the scene of the attack in a stolen vehicle. The border guard service said in a statement that Kulbarak uulu was killed after putting up “armed resistance” to arrest. …
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dead at 57
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler who held tight control over this East African country but was a major U.S counter-terrorism ally, died of an undisclosed illness after not being seen in public for weeks, Ethiopian state television said Tuesday. He was 57.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, dies at age 57, state TV says
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s state television says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, the East African nation’s longtime ruler, has died. He was 57.
Mindset List: Class of 2016 doesn't use radios or watch TVs, and sees women as leaders
MILWAUKEE – Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
Sixteen wounded in clashes in Lebanese port city
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – Sixteen people were wounded in overnight clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite neighborhoods in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, local security and medical sources said on Tuesday. Gunmen in the two districts exchanged gunfire and launched rocket-propelled grenades, residents said, in fighting which continued sporadically through the night despite the deployment of troops in the port city. …
Ethiopian prime minister has died
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a regional strongman in power for over two decades, has died in hospital abroad, the government said Tuesday. Exclusive: Iran looks to Armenia to skirt bank sanctions
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – With international sanctions squeezing Iran, the Islamic Republic is seeking to expand its banking foothold in the Caucasus nation of Armenia to make up for difficulties in countries it used to rely on to do business, according to diplomats and documents. Iran's growing interest in its neighbor Armenia, a mountainous, landlocked country of about 3. … Billionaire George Soros invests in Man United
US billionaire George Soros has bought a stake in Manchester United, the British football club that made its Wall Street debut earlier this month, according to a filing with US regulators. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles has died: state television
(Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died, Ethiopian state television said on Tuesday. Meles had not been seen in several weeks. The government said in July that he was taking a break to recover from an unspecified condition. State television said Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn will be acting prime minister. Rumors that Meles is seriously ill have been rife since the former guerrilla leader, in power since ousting Mengistu Haile Mariam's military junta in 1991, failed to attend an African Union summit in Addis Ababa last month. … 
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