LONDON – Serena Williams has been named the WTA’s Player of the Year after winning major titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open and claiming gold at the London Olympics.
Three-time canoeing Olympic champion Tony Estanguet retires at the age of 34
PAU, France – Three-time canoeing Olympic champion Tony Estanguet has retired from the sport at the age of 34.
Official says 10 Afghan civilians killed by bomb
A provincial official says a roadside bomb has killed 10 people and wounded eight in a remote part Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province.
Official says 10 Afghan civilians killed by bomb
A provincial official says a roadside bomb has killed 10 people and wounded eight in a remote part Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province.
Syria rebel bombing kills ruling party official
Syrian rebels bombed the house of a top member of the country's ruling Baath party in the south on Thursday, killing him and his three body guards, activists said. Analysis: At peak of powers, Merkel sets sights on third term
BERLIN (Reuters) – In Germany, election campaigns are supposed to be all about parties, policies and platforms, most definitely not personalities. Now that is about to change. Angela Merkel, at the peak of her political powers, is gearing up to run for a third term and what she hopes will be a place in the history books alongside towering post-war German leaders like Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl. … Factory owner: I didn't know fire exits needed
The owner of a Bangladesh clothing factory where a fire killed 112 people says he was never informed the facility was required to have an emergency exit, a sign of how far removed the leaders of the nation's garment industry are from issues of worker safety. Egypt's constitutional panel readying to vote
Members of an Islamist-dominated panel tasked to write a new constitution are gathering to vote on the document's final draft in a move likely to stoke a widening political crisis over decrees giving the president near absolute powers. U.N. nuclear chief sees no progress on Iran concerns
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear agency made no progress in a year-long push to find out if Iran worked on developing an atomic bomb, its chief said on Thursday, calling for urgent efforts to end Tehran’s standoff with the West. Yukiya Amano said he would not give up seeking to end what Western diplomats describe as Iranian stonewalling of the agency’s investigation into possible military dimensions to the Islamic state’s nuclear program. U.N. …
Roadside bomb kills 10 civilians in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – A roadside bomb exploded under a passenger van in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 people, most of them women and children, government officials said. Eight people were wounded in the blast in the Deh Rawood district of Uruzgan province, President Hamid Karzai’s office said in a statement. The Interior Ministry said 14 people were wounded. “Innocent peoples’ blood will not be wasted and terrorists will be shamed in this world and hereafter,” Karzai said in the statement. …
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