Somali pirates die in Ukraine ship shootout
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rival Somali pirates arguing over what to do with a hijacked Ukrainian ship and its cargo of 33 tanks engaged in a shootout on board, killing three of their number, a maritime group said on Tuesday.
Nations:Somalia Kenya Sudan Sierra Leone Source:(Reuters)
2008-09-30
Amid milk scare, China's elite get special food
BEIJING - While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow.
Nations:China North Korea Colombia Kenya People:Kim Jong Il Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal China Wealth Gap Source:(AP)
2008-09-24
China toxic milk sickens 53,000 as scare spreads
BEIJING (AFP) - China's tainted milk scandal spiralled into uncharted territory Monday with the government announcing that up to 53,000 children had been sickened and its top product-quality inspector sacked.
Nations:Tanzania Japan Malaysia Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AFP)
2008-09-22
13,000 children hospitalised in China milk scare
BEIJING (AFP) - China said nearly 13,000 children were in hospital Sunday after drinking toxic milk powder in a dramatic escalation of Beijing's latest safety scandal.
Nations:Tanzania Philippines New Zealand Malaysia People:Wen Jiabao Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AFP)
2008-09-21
Tainted milk sickens 6,000 babies in China
BEIJING (AFP) - China said Wednesday more than 6,000 babies had fallen ill and three died after drinking milk powder contaminated with a toxic chemical, as it vowed massive efforts to contain a widening food scandal.
Nations:China Gabon Yemen Burundi Myanmar New Zealand People:Wen Jiabao Activities:2008 China Milk Scandal Source:(AFP)
2008-09-17
16 dead in car bomb, ambush at US Embassy in Yemen
SAN'A, Yemen - Suspected militants armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb assaulted the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday. The coordinated attack killed 16 people, including six assailaints, officials said.
Nations:Yemen Egypt People:Dick Cheney Activities:Islamic Terrorists Source:(AP)
2008-09-17
Oil closes below $100 for first time in 6 months
NEW YORK - Oil prices closed below $100 a barrel for the first time in six months Monday, tumbling in another dramatic sell-off as the demise of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch deepened worries about the U.S. economy.
Nations:Nigeria Mexico Activities:2007-8 Oil Crisis 2008 Hurricane Ike 2008 Hurricane Gustav
2008-09-15
Anne Hathaway lights up patchy Venice fest
VENICE (Reuters) - Mickey Rourke and Anne Hathaway are among the favorites to win top actor and actress prizes at the Venice film festival awards ceremony on Saturday, while the race for the coveted Golden Lion for best picture is wide open.
Nations:Ethiopia Germany People:Hayao Miyazaki Anne Hathaway Jonathan Demme Charlize Theron George Clooney Brad Pitt Activities:2008 Venice Film Festival
2008-09-06
Bhutto widower elected Pakistani president
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan's new president Saturday after winning a landslide election victory that makes him a critical partner of the West against international terrorism.
Nations:Pakistan Afghanistan Algeria Tunisia People:Benazir Bhutto Nawaz Sharif Condoleezza Rice Activities:Asif Ali Zardari Admin. Source:(AP)
2008-09-06
Powerful Gustav rips across Cuba, 300,000 evacuate
HAVANA - Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.
Nations:Cuba U.S. Dominican Republic Jamaica Mexico Spain Activities:2008 Hurricane Gustav 2005 Hurricane Katrina Source:(AP)
2008-08-31
Democrats choose Obama in historic acclamation
DENVER - Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into a joyful, shouting celebration.
Nations:U.S. Kenya People:Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Jesse Jackson Joseph Biden John McCain John Kerry Activities:US Election 2008
2008-08-27
Russia's gains in Georgia may leave it more isolated
Paris - Russia thirsts to once again be a great power - a lesson the West is learning in Georgia. On Monday, Russia's parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of Georgian rebel regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia - the flashpoints of recent fighting. Also, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired a warning shot about another frozen ethnic conflict in Moldova.
Nations:France Russia Afghanistan Estonia Belarus Ukraine People:Dmitry Medvedev Nicolas Sarkozy Vladimir Putin Activities:2008 Georgia War Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2008-08-26
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