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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Asia Pacific

Official: More than 800 dead in Pakistani floods

A woman sits outside her house flooded by heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday.
By Associated Press
NOWSHERA, Pakistan — Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said...
Asia Pacific

‘Black box’ found in Pakistan plane crash wreckage

People light earth lamps in memory of passengers who lost their lives in a plane crash near Islamabad, in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday.
By Associated Press
ISLAMABAD — Recovery workers found the "black box" flight data recorder Saturday in the wreckage of Pakistan’s...
Asia Pacific

Deaths in war hit a monthly high of 66

By Associated Press
KABUL - America’s military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in...
Friday, July 30, 2010
Asia Pacific

3 more US troops die in southern Afghanistan

U.S. soldiers stand guard as a medical helicopter arrives to evacuate a soldier from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 30, 2010.
By Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three more U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the U.S. death toll for...
Asia Pacific

July is deadliest month of Afghan war for US

An Afghan National Police officer helps his fellow officer on to a U.S. Air Force rescue helicopter after he was shot during combat with the Taliban, in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday July 29, 2010.
By Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing...
Europe

Irish find remains of IRA victim missing since ’81

By Associated Press
DUBLIN — The suspected remains of a 57-year-old Northern Ireland man who was abducted by the Irish Republican Army in 1981 have been unearthed in a bog...
Europe

Greece to use military to restore fuel supplies

Cars pass fuel trucks parked on a highway, near Athens,Greece, on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.
By Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece — A government spokesman says Greece will use military trucks and navy vessels to restore fuel...
Europe

25 dead as forest fires rage across Russia

Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu, Nizhnyi Novgorod region governor Valery Shantsev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, from left, visit in the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya on Friday, July 30, 2010.
By Associated Press
MOSCOW — Forest fires raged across Russia on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing...
Americas

Troops kill senior ‘capo’ of mighty Mexico cartel

Soldiers guard a street in the area where Mexican drug cartel leader Ignacio Coronel Villareal, aka Nacho Coronel was allegedly killed during an army raid in Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday July 29, 2010.
By Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest...
Middle East

Iran report: Cigarettes implicated in Western plot

By Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian official says cigarettes smuggled into Iran have been tainted with pig blood and nuclear material...
Americas

Argentine couples wed under new gay marriage law

By Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — After a 27-year courtship, two men on Friday became the first gay couple to wed under Argentina’s historic same-sex marriage...
Middle East

July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US

By Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for...
Europe

Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police

By Associated Press
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put police officers’...
Asia Pacific

Officials: Floods kill at least 430 in Pakistan

People stand at a bank of overflowing steam in Mingora, the capital of Swat valley in Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010.
By Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 430 on Friday, as...
Asia Pacific

Second U.S. sailor found dead in Afghanistan

By Associated Press
KABUL - The discovery of the body of a second U.S. sailor who vanished in Afghanistan last week only deepened the mystery of the men’s disappearance nearly...


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