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Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country. ...Read More
Tropical Storm Hermine makes landfall in Mexico
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into Mexico's northern Gulf coast near the U.S. border late Monday with winds of 65 mph (100 kph), threatening heavy rains that could cause flash flooding in Mexico and Texas. ...Read More
Indonesian volcano erupts again; strongest one yet
TANAH KARO, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy. ...Read More
Hermine comes ashore in Mexico as tropical storm
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Hermine has come ashore in extreme northeastern Mexico. ...Read More
Asian markets climb after positive US jobs data
TOKYO (AP) — Stocks in Asia nudged higher in early trade Monday, after shares in the U.S. rose last week on the back of strong jobs data. ...Read More
Police say suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 14
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 14 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. ...Read More
Police say suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. ...Read More
Basque separatists ETA announce cease-fire
MADRID (AP) — The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland. ...Read More
3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said. ...Read More
Lebanon PM: Wrong to accuse Syria in Hariri death
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Western-backed prime minister made a startling reversal Monday and said it was a mistake to accuse Syria of the massive 2005 truck bombing that killed his father, claiming the charge was politically motivated. ...Read More
Israel unlikely to extend current settlement curbs
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister says a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction is unlikely to continue in its current form after it expires at the end of this month. ...Read More
Storm off Mozambique kills 15 fishermen
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambican authorities say five fishing boats have capsized in a storm off the country's central coast, killing at least 15 fishermen. ...Read More
Assault on Baghdad military headquarters kills 12
BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed 12 people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security. ...Read More
Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. Another survivor confirmed the account and said local fishermen refused to help drowning passengers who jumped off the crowded boat. ...Read More
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 28; 2 buses hit
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 28 people in Guatemala — most of them in separate disasters along the same highway. ...Read More
Afghan Central Bank: Kabul Bank has 'stabilized'
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's largest bank remained solvent Sunday after a nearly weeklong run on the troubled institution, according to the governor of the nation's central bank, which is being criticized for looking the other way at the bank's mismanagement problems for too long. ...Read More
Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert. ...Read More
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit
NAHUALA, Guatemala (AP) — Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud. ...Read More
Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote. ...Read More
Basque separatist group ETA announce cease-fire
MADRID (AP) — The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland. ...Read More
Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal'
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery. ...Read More
Congo: 70 dead in 2nd weekend boat capsize
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A Congolese official says 70 people are believed dead after a riverboat capsized in the second reported deadly boat tipping this weekend. ...Read More
Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday. ...Read More
Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle
BAGHDAD (AP) — Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens. ...Read More
Afghans protest US church's plans to burn Quran
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans railed against the United States and called for President Barack Obama's death at a rally in the capital Monday to denounce an American church's plans to burn the Islamic holy book on Sept. 11. ...Read More
Israeli FM: Settlement slowdown will end
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations. ...Read More
Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people
LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes. ...Read More
Report: Van der Sloot concedes extorting Holloways
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway has acknowledged extorting money from Holloway's parents and says he did it to get back at them. ...Read More
UK police may probe alleged tabloid phone hacking
LONDON (AP) — One of Britain's best-selling newspapers denied Monday that it engaged in widespread phone hacking, but police said they might reopen an investigation into claims its reporters illegally eavesdropped on scores of politicians and celebrities. ...Read More
Survivor: Fishermen looted sinking vessel in Congo
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Survivors who swam to safety after their overcrowded boat capsized over the weekend said nearby fishermen refused to help drowning passengers in the dark of night, instead looting the goods aboard the burning vessel and beating people with oars. ...Read More
Germany's Merkel praises extending nuclear energy
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's chancellor says a deal to grant the country's nuclear power plants an extra 12 years on average of production is a "revolution of the energy supply" for her country. ...Read More
Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's prime minister said it was a mistake to accuse Syria of involvement in the 2005 assassination of his father, a major turnaround for a man who has long blamed Damascus for the massive Beirut truck bombing that killed Rafik Hariri. ...Read More
Philippines asks court to outlaw Abu Sayyaf
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government has asked a court to outlaw the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group and blacklist more than 200 of its Islamic fighters blamed for two decades of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, officials said Monday. ...Read More
Massive earthquake sets back NZ economic recovery
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's prime minister warned Monday that the country's economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch. ...Read More
China, US meet amid tensions over trade, military
BEIJING (AP) — Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met Monday to steady relations upset by disputes over currency, trade and military affairs despite calls for a tougher line on Chinese economic policies that some say are contributing to American unemployment. ...Read More
Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the prosecutor said the actor no longer wanted to pursue a case stemming from the death of his teenage son. ...Read More
Son: Iran woman who faced stoning to be lashed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday. ...Read More
UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered
VIENNA (AP) — In an unusually blunt warning, the U.N. atomic agency said Monday that its monitoring of Iran's nuclear activities is being hampered because Tehran objects to giving some agency inspectors access to its program. ...Read More
Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday. ...Read More
Israeli FM pushes for new settlement construction
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations. ...Read More
Iran woman who faced stoning death to be lashed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The son of an Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning for adultery says authorities have imposed a new sentence of 99 lashes after a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman and mistakenly identified it as his mother. ...Read More
US expects to subsidize Afghan training for years
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in 2011, The Associated Press has learned. ...Read More
Report: 2,000 more NATO troops may be Afghan-bound
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO may deploy 2,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan to join the 140,000-strong international force already there, an official said Monday. ...Read More
Death toll 44 in Guatemala mudslides; more missing
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides helped raise Guatemala's official death toll to 44 after days of torrential rains. ...Read More
Spain not convinced new Basque truce is credible
MADRID (AP) — How many cease-fires can you announce and break before everyone stops paying attention? ...Read More
Argentines risking all to carry huge wads of cash
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The "marker" lurks inside the bank, looking for people pulling large amounts of cash from a safe deposit box or bank account. The gunmen linger outside, usually on motorcyles, waiting to make their move. ...Read More
Lawyer says Iranian woman could be stoned soon
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. ...Read More
Lawyer: Iran woman could be stoned to death soon
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. ...Read More
Death toll 45 in Guatemala mudslides; more missing
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country. ...Read More
Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful tremblor might hammer the region in coming days. ...Read More
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