MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Fighting in Somalia’s capital flared for a third straight day Wednesday, killing eight people and pushing the week’s death toll past 80 as insurgents tried to force government troops back toward the presidential palace, officials said. (more)
BUSHEHR, Iran (AP) — Trucks rumbled into Iran’s first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the country’s peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as a triumph over Western pressure to rein in its nuclear ambitions. (more)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s recession deepened in the second quarter, according to official estimates released Thursday, as the country felt the painful consequences of the government’s drive to reduce its debt load with aggressive austerity cuts. (more)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — African leaders are pledging thousands of new troops for Somalia to fight al-Qaida-linked militants responsible for the twin World Cup bombings that killed 76 people, and the U.S. says it will help bankroll the military campaign. (more)
ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighter jets buzzed the skies and submarines cruised underwater Sunday as a flotilla of U.S. and South Korean warships led by a nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier began exercises that have enraged North Korea. (more)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court ruled Thursday that Kosovo’s declaration of independence was legal, dealing a blow to Serbia, which vowed never to accept its former province as a separate state and warned the ruling could embolden separatist movements around the world. (more)
TORONTO – If there’s one takeaway snapshot from the gathering of the world’s economic powers here this weekend, it will be President Barack Obama, last year’s new kid on the block, shaking hands with British Prime Minister David Cameron, the new, new kid on the block. (more)
PARIS (AP) — European newspapers are weathering the media crisis better than their U.S. counterparts, a report released Monday suggested. (more)
G20 finance ministers have said the recovery from the global economic crisis has been faster than expected, but significant challenges remain. (more)
LONDON (AP) — Europe’s governments are struggling to deal with a mountain of debt made worse by the past three years of global financial and economic turmoil. (more)
Economic recovery in the world’s richest countries is accelerating thanks to a “substantial” rebound in trade and growth in Asia, but austerity measures are needed to reduce deficits, as Europe’s debt crisis proves, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (more)
BRUSSELS (AP) — A bold $1 trillion rescue by the European Union halted the slide of the euro on Monday and sent markets soaring worldwide in a gambit that may ultimately be seen as the moment Europe truly became a union. (more)
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says an estimated 63,000 Somalis have been chased from their homes since Jan 1. because of intense fighting in the country. (more)
GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization opened an investigation Tuesday into U.S. import taxes on Chinese tires, fees Washington says are needed to slow China’s rapid export growth and protect American jobs. (more)
LONDON (AP) — Corruption in Afghanistan is so entrenched that Afghans had to pay bribes worth nearly a quarter of the country’s GDP last year, a United Nations report said Tuesday. (more)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The 5-month-old patient at the Israeli field hospital has a number rather than a name. (more)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The staggering scope of Haiti’s nightmare came into sharper focus Monday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the quake-ravaged heart of this tragic land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help and looters slashed at one another in the rubble. (more)
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union pledges over euro400 million ($575 million) to help the needy and rebuild Haiti. (more)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of U.S. Marines were expected off the shore of this crumbled capital city Monday to help relief organizations get supplies to Haitian earthquake survivors who questioned foreigners, soldiers and God about aid yet to arrive. (more)
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s election commission released a partial vote count Monday showing gruff opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych and glamorous Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on course to compete in next month’s final round of the presidential elections. (more)
