Canadian soldier found dead at undisclosed Middle Eastern base
July 05, 2008 - 5:13 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was found dead in the sleeping area of a Middle Eastern military base. The death of Cpl. Brendan Anthony Downey, a military policeman based in Dundurn, Sask., had been declared non-combat-related even before investigators arrived at the ...
U.K. police make arrest in connection with French student murders: reports
July 05, 2008 - 4:41 am
LONDON - British news reports say London police have arrested a suspect in connection with the brutal murders of two French students. The BBC and other media are reporting that police detained a 21-year-old man on a street in southeast London early Saturday and he is being held at a police ...
10 Taliban killed while planting bomb; Afghan lawmaker assassinated
July 05, 2008 - 4:25 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan legislator, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban. The gunmen killed parliament member and former military commander Habibullah Jan after he ...
Colombian hostage rescue mission mimicked Venezuelan airlifts
July 05, 2008 - 1:56 am
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian military intelligence agents flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap. The would-be envoys had honed their accents in acting ...
Myanmar imprisons 4 protesters against new constitution for 'trespassing'
July 04, 2008 - 11:36 pm
YANGON, Myanmar - A court in Myanmar imprisoned four pro-democracy activists for one year for campaigning against a constitution promoted by the military government. Nyan Win, a spokesman for the opposition National League for Democracy party, said Friday the court imposed the jail ...
No reprieve for wildfire-weary California; fires rage on two fronts
July 04, 2008 - 11:35 pm
BIG SUR, Calif. - A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening more than 4,500 homes hundreds of kilometres apart. While flames from the stubborn fire in the northern flank of the Los ...
Canadian engineer kidnapped by armed men in Colombia
July 04, 2008 - 11:16 pm
BOGOTA, Colombia - A Canadian electrical engineer and a Colombian man have been kidnapped by armed men in rural Colombia. Col. Ruben Alzate says 46-year-old Thomas Orland MacLean and 48-year-old Jesus Salvador Aristizabal were intercepted by two gunmen as they travelled on a highway near ...
Spitzer call girl drops lawsuit against 'Girls Gone Wild' founder
July 04, 2008 - 9:05 pm
MIAMI - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. Ashley Dupre voluntarily dismissed the $10 million federal lawsuit, according to court ...
Park Service considering reopening Statue of Liberty?s crown
July 04, 2008 - 8:04 pm
NEW YORK - The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to documents released Friday. The documents, released by U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), showed the Park Service ...
Gunmen assassinate official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party in Basra
July 04, 2008 - 8:02 pm
BAGHDAD - Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party in the southern city of Basra today. Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down in the Hayania district, which had been a stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr until a ...
Jesse Helms, unyielding champion of the conservative movement, dies at 86
July 04, 2008 - 7:55 pm
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former senator Jesse Helms, a staunch anti-Communist and conservative who built a 30-year congressional career along the fault lines of racial politics, battling liberals and the occasional fellow Republican, died Friday. He was 86. "It's just incredible that he would die ...
Americans celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, revelry
July 04, 2008 - 6:59 pm
NEW YORK - Americans across the country mixed patriotism and plain old good fun to mark Independence Day on Friday, with solemn ceremony alternating with parades and hot-dog-eating hijinks. On the 232nd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, boy scouts in Hartford, ...
River sweeps bus off bridge, killing 29 members of evangelical group
July 04, 2008 - 6:11 pm
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Rescue crews recovered 29 bodies Friday from a raging, rain-fed river that swept a bus carrying members of an evangelical church off a bridge in El Salvador's capital. Crews were still looking for at least one other person believed aboard the bus when it was ...
France extends a hero's welcome to Betancourt, praises her as beacon of hope
July 04, 2008 - 6:00 pm
PARIS - Arriving to a hero's welcome in France, Ingrid Betancourt said Friday that she cried a lot during her six years as a prisoner in the Colombian jungle. Today, she said, "I cry with joy." President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife met the French-Colombian politician on the tarmac of an ...
3 decapitated bodies found with dead snake, threatening message in Mexico
July 04, 2008 - 5:19 pm
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities say they have found the bodies of three decapitated men accompanied by a dead snake and threatening messages. A report from the state prosecutor's office says the bodies were found Friday in a car trunk in Culiacan, capital of the Pacific coast state of ...
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