World
SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles
posted: 05/18/2013 10:27 a.m. Discuss
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions.
76 dead in Iraq bomb attacks
posted: 05/18/2013 5:56 a.m. Discuss
Bombs struck Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months, officials said, as a spike in violence has raised fears the country could be on the path to a new round of sectarian bloodshed.
Stripteases at Berlusconi parties described
posted: 05/18/2013 5:50 a.m. Discuss
Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal.
Toronto mayor: Crack video bunk
posted: 05/18/2013 5:49 a.m. Discuss
A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada.
Syrian torture evidence reported
posted: 05/18/2013 5:41 a.m. Discuss
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.
Attack on Nigerian rebels’ base kills 21
posted: 05/18/2013 5:39 a.m. Discuss
Soldiers in Nigeria launched their first raid against suspected Islamic extremists in a campaign to take back control of the nation’s northeast, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday.
Cannes thieves snatch jewel cache
posted: 05/18/2013 5:38 a.m. Discuss
Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry in a late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday.
15 die in Pakistan mosque bombings
posted: 05/18/2013 5:36 a.m. Discuss
Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 15 people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence that the new government under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces.
The world in brief
posted: 05/18/2013 5:30 a.m. Discuss
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I do not know where the country is headed amid these attacks against both Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.” Hassan Alwan, who attended prayer services in the al-Sariya mosque in Baqouba, Iraq, where dozens were killed and wounded in a bombing Article, 1A
In the news
posted: 05/18/2013 5:28 a.m. Discuss
Michelle Obama, the first lady, spoke about the importance of education to the black community in a commencement address in suburban Washington, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school’s history and to pass their commitment to education on to future generations.
Blanks fired at Cannes film fest cause brief panic
posted: 05/17/2013 4:25 p.m. Discuss
CANNES, France — A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators scurrying.
$1 million in jewels stolen near Cannes film fest
posted: 05/17/2013 10:05 a.m. Discuss
PARIS — Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday.
Ruby testifies about Berlusconi 'bunga bunga' fest
posted: 05/17/2013 9:02 a.m. Discuss
MILAN — The Moroccan woman at the center of a sex scandal involving former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi testified Friday in court for the first time, describing how a young woman attending one of Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties dressed up like a nun, danced provocatively and stripped down to her underwear for the premier.
Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
posted: 05/17/2013 8:51 a.m. Discuss
BEIRUT — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.BEIRUT — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.
Mosque, funeral bombings kill 47 in Iraq
updated: 05/17/2013 10:22 a.m. Discuss
BAGHDAD — Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers in Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni funeral just outside the city, deepened fears Iraq may be headed toward a new round of sectarian conflict.
