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World mourns 'tortured genius'
Friday, June 26, 2009
FBI joins effort in hostage standoff with pirates
Thursday, April 9, 2009
FBI hostage negotiators joined U.S. Navy efforts Thursday to free an American cargo ship captain held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates. A U.S. destroyer and a spy plane kept a close watch in the high-seas standoff near the Horn of Africa. Full story »
Leaders grapple for economic solutions
Thursday, April 2, 2009
LONDON — Doggedly optimistic in the face of doubts, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted today’s emergency G-20 economic summit would produce a significant global deal to tackle the deepening worldwide recession. Full story »
Engine trouble possible cause of crash in Amsterdam 4 Americans, 5 Turks killed
Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
AMSTERDAM — Engine trouble may have caused the Turkish Airlines crash that killed nine people in the Netherlands, the head of the agency investigating the accident said Thursday. Separately, officials said those killed were five Turks and four Americans. Full story »
Bangladesh breaks border guard revolt
Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Tanks rolled through the Bangladeshi capital Thursday in a show of force that finally persuaded mutinous border guards to lay down their arms, ending a two-day revolt that threatened to spread across the impoverished South Asian nation. Full story »
World Briefs: Feb. 27
Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
Mexico's president wants to win drug war by 2012
Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon said Thursday he wants to win the war against the world’s most powerful drug gangs before his term ends in 2012, and disputed U.S. fears that Mexico is losing control of its territory. Full story »
World Briefs: Feb. 26
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009
125 survive crash of Turkish Airlines jet
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009
HAARLEMMERLIEDE, Netherlands — A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of the mist and plowed into a muddy field Wednesday near Amsterdam’s main airport, but nearly everyone on board — 125 people — survived. The nine dead included both pilots. Full story »
9 dead in Turkish plane crash in Amsterdam
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009
A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 135 people slammed into a muddy field while attempting to land at Amsterdam's main airport in misty weather Wednesday. Nine people were killed and more than 50 were injured, many seriously, officials said. Full story »
Clinton talks of climate in China
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009
BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was pressing senior Chinese officials today to cooperate on climate change, the world financial crisis and security threats like North Korea — ahead of long-standing concerns about human rights. Full story »
U.S. soldier guilty of murder in deaths of 4 Iraqis
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009
VILSECK, Germany — A U.S. Army medic was convicted of murder Friday for his involvement in the execution-style slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees shot in the back of the head in the spring of 2007. The court sentenced him to life in prison. Full story »
World Briefs: Feb. 21
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009
Netanyahu urges moderates to join broad government
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to his moderate rivals Friday to join a unity government — a tricky alliance that would let the hawkish Israeli leader avoid relying on an unstable grouping of right-wingers almost sure to collide with the Obama administration and each other. Full story »
1941 paintings by 'Polish Kafka' revealed in Holocaust museum
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009
JERUSALEM — A Gestapo officer forced Jewish author and artist Bruno Schulz to paint fairy tale characters on the walls of a nursery in an occupied Polish village in 1941. A Nazi sergeant shot and killed Schulz a year later, and his colorful murals were forgotten for decades. Full story »
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