Seoul, South Korea.- About 200,000 North Koreans bade a tearful farewell today to “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il in a three-hour funeral procession in Pyongyang that made one point clear: North Korean strategists want the world to know that third son Ki....
MEXICO CITY.- Mexico said Wednesday it has broken up an international plot to smuggle a son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his family into Mexico under false names and with false Mexican documents.
The elaborate plan to bring Al-Saa....
DURBAN, Sudáfrica.- El secretario general de las Naciones Unidas, Ban Ki-moon, advirtió hoy de que el futuro de la Tierra está en juego en la XVII Cumbre de la ONU sobre Cambio Climático (COP17).
"Sin exageración, podemos decir que el futuro de nu....
A woman has appeared in court in connection with a video allegedly showing her racially abusing fellow passengers on a tram in south London.
Emma West appeared at Croydon magistrates court charged with a racially aggravated public order offence, B....
ALSO.- Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik belongs in psychiatric care instead of prison, prosecutors in Norway said Tuesday after a mental evaluation declared him legally insane during a bomb-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people.
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A RUSSIAN woman accused of spying for Moscow while working for a British MP has won her appeal against deportation after insisting she is innocent.
Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has ruled that 26-year-old Katia Zatulivet....
JUBA - South Sudan's oil ministry said that foreign oil companies and potential buyers of its crude were "on notice" that no other nation or entity had been authorised to sell its oil.
The oil official responsible told Reuters last week that South....
The husband of former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo asked the Supreme Court to stop her prosecution on charges of electoral fraud, potentially setting up the latest legal standoff with the government.
The case against Arroyo should be nullifi....
The figure indicates continuing nervousness about the country's high level of debt.
Mr Monti, 68, got the backing of both main parties during talks on Tuesday.
He is putting together a government led by technocrats, but it must still have parlia....
Some 1,000 Iranian students created a human chain Tuesday around the Isfahan uranium conversion facility to protest a recent UN report charging that Tehran may be developing nuclear weapons.
The display, which was organized by the Iranian regime,....
In an interview broadcast Sunday evening on Radio Lisanga TV, a station close to the opposition, Etienne Tshisekedi stirred controversy and radicalized the tone of the election campaign when he declared himself president of Congo today.
I have t....
The News of the World, the now-defunct tabloid at the center of the News Corp phone-hacking scandal, paid a private eye to spy on Prince William and a host of other high-profile people, the BBC said on Tuesday.
The report, based on an interview wi....
London.- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost a legal battle to stop him being extradited from the United Kingdom to Sweden to face accusations of sexual assault.
Speaking outside London’s High Court and flanked by supporters, the Australian ....
EL CAIRO - Un vice primer ministro egipcio presentó su dimisión el martes tras los enfrentamientos mortíferos del domingo entre manifestantes coptos y las fuerzas de seguridad en El Cairo, que han desatado una lluvia de críticas contra el ejército ....
China and Russia on Tuesday appeared to move closer towards narrowing long-persisting differences on a landmark gas deal, even as both countries inked a number of trade agreements and hailed a never-before-seen level of closeness on economic and gl....
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