SEOUL - North Korea has test-fired two more missiles following similar launches earlier this week, according to the defence ministry. North Korea test-fired two missiles this morning, a spokesman for the defence ministry told AFP. He said the missi
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Saturday 04 July 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - OAS chief says Honduras' interim government not willing to restore ousted president.
NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban areas of southern Afghanistan on Friday, seeking to cut insurgent supply lines and win over local elders on the second day of the biggest U.S. military operation here since the American-led
BAGHDAD - Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq. He stressed t
LONDON - Madonna will perform a special tribute to Michael Jackson during her London show on Saturday, at the venue where he was due to stage his farewell shows, she said in a newspaper interview. Madonna -- known as the Queen of Pop, while Jackson
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras' Supreme Court rebuffed a personal appeal from the Americas' top international diplomat Friday, refusing to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya before a Saturday deadline. Jose Miguel Insulza, who heads the Organi
LONDON - Newspapers are mourning the failure of Andy Murray to become Britain's first Wimbledon champion for 73 years, but hailed Andy Roddick's masterful semi-final performance and the Scot's future chances. Roddick beat Murray in a nail-biting fo
SEOUL, South Korea - A news report says North Korea has fired two mid-range missiles off it eastern coast. Yonhap news agency's report says the launches Saturday appeared to be of Scud missiles. The agency quotes a South Korean government official i
NAYPYIDAW - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to hold an unexpected second meeting with Myanmar's junta leader as he presses the regime to free the pro-democracy leader and allow him to see her. Ban pushed iron-fisted military ruler Than Shwe to
MONACO - Cadel Evans has been building steadily towards what would be an historic Tour de France victory for the past five years. But this month another Australian, in the shape of his Silence teammate Matthew Lloyd, could offer that tiny, extra ad
CARACAS, Venezuela - The head of Venezuela's telecommunications regulatory agency said Friday that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their registrations with the government. A total of 86 AM radio stations and
As of Friday, July 3, 2009, at least 642 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its
GROS ISLET, St. Lucia - India dodged the showers to eke-out a workmanlike six-wicket victory over West Indies in the rain-hit third One-day International on Friday at the Beausejour Cricket Ground. India take an unbeatable 2-1 lead the four-match s
KHARTOUM - Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told AFP. Unidentified armed men came to the quarters of the N
CANCUN, Mexico - As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health. Only Friday did Argentina's new hea
On the surface, the news that Yemenia Airways, whose jet crashed off the coast of the Comoros Islands on Tuesday, was not on the European Union's blacklist of airlines deemed lax on safety seems like a good argument for not only maintaining the blac
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