KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Hamid Karzai has issued a decree banning Afghan security forces from requesting airstrikes during operations in residential areas. Scandals seen boosting Italy's anti-establishment party before vote
ROME (Reuters) – Comic Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement appears to be stealing momentum from Silvio Berlusconi after a string of scandals that hav e hit the main political parties just before Italy's election. Publication of polls is illegal in the two weeks leading up to the vote. But several electoral experts who have seen private surveys told Reuters that Grillo's movement is the only one that is thought to be gaining significantly since the blackout period began. … Israel to award Obama prestigious medal in visit
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel will award President Barack Obama the country’s Presidential Medal of Distinction during his upcoming visit.
US lawmakers visit Cuba
HAVANA (AP) -- A bilateral delegation of American lawmakers led by Sen. Patrick Leahy is heading to Cuba for two days of meetings.
Russian scientists recover meteor fragments
MOSCOW (AP) -- Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the powe r of dozens of atomic bombs. Workers and police clash at airport during Iberia strike
MADRID (Reuters) – Striking union workers clashed with police at Madrid’s Barajas airport on Monday on the first day of a week-long strike over more than 3,800 pending job cuts at Spain’s flagship airline Iberia. Hundreds of workers demonstrated outside Barajas, Iberia’s hub, and inside the airport’s Terminal 4 where they carried out a sit-in and chanted and whistled. Outside the terminal police beat some strikers with truncheons. …
Father of far-right murder victim appeals to German president
BERLIN (Reuters) – The father of a victim of a neo-Nazi gang that waged a killing spree across Germany broke down on Monday as he appealed for the street on which his son was murdered to be named after him. Revelations in November 2011 that the cell was behind the previously unconnected murders of eight ethnic Turks, a Greek and a policewoman provoked deep soul-searching over how the so-called National Socialist Union (NSU) could have gone undetected in Germany for so long. … Red-letter weekend for Latin America's left as Correa wins reelection and Chavez returns home
The photos illustrating the biggest news in Latin America this weekend could not have differed more. One was of a vigorous and victorious Rafael Correa in Ecuador, winning a third term in office Sunday; the other was of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's ailing president, smiling but, weeks after surgery for cancer, still lying in a hospital bed.
Family of slain girlfriend seeks answers, Pistorius to face bail hearing
The family of Oscar Pistorius’ slain girlfriend wants answers, her mother told a Johannesburg newspaper as the country waited to hear for the first time why prosecutors believe the iconic athlete murdered Reeva Steenkamp by shooting her multiple times on Valentine’s Day morning.
Germany: tighter controls needed on meat products
BERLIN (AP) -- German officials are vowing tighter controls on meat products and stronger penalties for companies that violate food-labeling rules as more items marketed as "all beef" have tested positive for horse meat. EU approves tighter sanctions on North Korea
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union governments agreed on Monday to tighten sanctions against North Korea, restricting the country's ability to trade following last week's nuclear test. The sanctions expand those approved by the U.N. Security Council in January, adding measures preventing trading in North Korean government bonds, gold, precious metals, and diamonds, EU diplomats said. "We have pushed for enhancing the sanctions. … Young Ugandan chess-prodigy: lessons in the slum take her to the world stage
The muddy alleyways and dark, crowded rooms of the Katwe slum in Uganda’s capital city seem like the last place you'd expect to pick up a game of chess. But this is where one of the world's most unlikely chess champions, 16 year-old Phiona Mutesi, first laid eyes on a board.
Pistorius girlfriend's mom to paper: 'Why did he do this?'; says family wants answers
JOHANNESBURG – The family of Oscar Pistorius’ slain girlfriend wants answers, her mother told a Johannesburg newspaper as the country waited to hear for the first time why prosecutors believe the iconic athlete murdered Reeva Steenkamp by shooting her multiple times on Valentine’s Day morning.
US Congressmen in Mali on fact-finding mission
TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) -- A delegation of U.S. lawmakers toured the capital of Mali Monday in a fact-finding mission, weeks after France launched a military intervention to wrest back control of the country’s north from the al-Qaida linked groups occupying it.
Several injured in union rivalry, shooting at Anglo American platinum mine in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG – Police say several people have been shot and injured as miners from rival unions clashed at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South Africa.
Shooting at Amplats injures South African miners
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Police say several people have been shot and injured as miners from rival unions clashed at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South Africa.
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