LONDON (AP) -- A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explai n why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help pinpoint why flu viruses hit some populations particularly hard and change how they are treated. Turkish police release footage of missing US woman
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The husband of a New York City woman who went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul was interviewed by police Tuesday in hopes of helping the search. Greens' push for conservative vote gives Merkel headache
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany's Greens are on a roll a fter a big jump in their support in a regional election this month confirmed the growing mainstream appeal of a party once seen as a fringe leftist movement but which now poses a challenge to Angela Merkel. Worryingly for the conservative Chancellor ahead of a federal election in September, support for the Greens is spreading from the cities to rural areas once dominated by her Christian Democrats. In Lower Saxony on Jan 20. … Hundreds of Qaeda-linked militants reinforce south Yemen bastion
SANAA (Reuters) – Hundreds of al Qaeda-linked militants arrived in southern Yemen on Tuesday to reinforce Islamist fighters facing a major government offensive following the breakdown of talks to free three Western hostages, an official and residents said. Air strikes against militant targets in the al Qaeda stronghold of al-Manaseh and ambushes by the Islamist fighters after Monday’s army assault, killed at least six insurgents and 14 soldiers, including 11 killed by a suicide bomber. …
Debris of F-16 missing in Italy believed found, search focuses on spot
RAVEN NA, Italy (Reuters) – Italian Coast Guard divers searching for a missing American F-16 and its pilot were focusing on Tuesday on waters where a fishing boat found debris believed to belong to the jet, a Coast Guard official said. The debris, including fragments of carbon steel, was found floating in the northern Adriatic overnight, Rear Admiral Francesco Saverio Ferrara said. The U.S. Air Force said in a statement on Tuesday it was thought to be wreckage from the missing aircraft. … News Summary: N. Zealand mulls 3-day mail service
THREE-DAY DELIVERY: New Zealand’s postal service is considering cutting delivery from six days a week to three to cut costs as people increasingly turn to the Internet to pay bills and communicate.THE …
Malian troops uncover rebel arms caches in recaptured towns
DOUENTZA/GAO, Mali (Reuters) – French-backed Malian troops searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday, uncovering arms and explosives abandoned by Islamist fighters, and France said it would look to hand over longer-term security operations to African troops. French and Malian troops retook the two Saharan towns in northern Mali virtually unopposed at the weekend after an 18-day French-led offensive that has pushed back the al Qaeda-allied militants into hideouts in the deserts and mountains. … Mixed feelings south of the border on Senate immigration plan
If anyone is an activist for the rights of Mexican migrants, it is Adriana Cortes, the head of the Community Foundation of the Bajio, a nongovernmental organization in the Mexican state of Guanajuato that focuses on local rural development.
Provincial Italian city seeks return of composer Salieri's remains from Vienna
MILAN – Residents of a provincial city in northern Italy are seeking to reclaim the remains of its best-known son, composer Antonio Salieri.
Suicide blast kills two near Somali president's palace
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An Islamist militant persuaded Somali government officials he had defected, then walked up to the president’s palace compound on Tuesday and blew himself up near the gates, killing at least two soldiers, witnesses and rebels said. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels said the early morning suicide attack was the start of a new campaign against the country’s Western-backed government and its leaders. …
Mugabe talks up reconciliation, but is it just 'lipstick on a frog'?
When Zimbabwe's controversial leader Robert Mugabe spoke Jan. 21 at the burial of his deputy, he called for "peace, peace and more peace."
Senate panel approves Obama's pick of Sen. John Kerry for top job at State
WASHINGTON – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved President Barack Obama’s nomination of Sen. John Kerry to be the next secretary of state.
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