AP - 9/5/2010 8:57 PM
By
TOMOKO A. HOSAKA
2010-09-06T03:57:30Z
TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese journalist who was abducted by militants in Afghanistan five months ago has been freed by his captors and left the country, Japan's Foreign Ministry said....
AP - 9/5/2010 6:27 PM
By
ROB GRIFFITH
2010-09-06T01:27:57Z
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- Army troops took control of the center of the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Monday, two days after a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed buildings and homes, wrecked roads and rail lines - but caused no loss of life....
AP - 9/5/2010 6:20 PM
By
DIEGO MENDEZ
2010-09-06T01:20:50Z
COMALAPA AIR FORCE BASE, El Salvador (AP) -- A third man survived last month's massacre of 72 migrants by suspected drug traffickers in Mexico and is now in the United States, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said Sunday....
AP - 9/5/2010 4:31 PM
By
MOISES CASTILLO
2010-09-05T23:31:28Z
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....
AP - 9/5/2010 4:07 PM
By
PATRICE CITERA
2010-09-05T23:07:38Z
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....
AP - 9/5/2010 3:14 PM
By
ARSEN MOLLAYEV
2010-09-05T22:14:29Z
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....
AP - 9/5/2010 3:10 PM
By
PETER PRENGAMAN
2010-09-05T22:10:08Z
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....
AP - 9/5/2010 1:52 PM
By
BARBARA SURK
2010-09-05T20:52:41Z
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....
AP - 9/5/2010 10:33 AM
By
DANIEL WOOLLS and HAROLD HECKLE
2010-09-05T17:33:44Z
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....
AP - 9/5/2010 10:04 AM
By
FRANCES D'EMILIO
2010-09-05T17:04:34Z
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....
NPR - 9/5/2010 5:00 AM
- Sports
Allegations that some members of Pakistan's national cricket team have been accepting bribes from bookmakers have shaken the world of international cricket. The three players all deny the allegations, but are being forced to sit out the rest of Pakistan's current tour of England while the matter is investigated.
NPR - 9/5/2010 5:00 AM
- Latin America
The 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground in a Chilean mine have been without fresh air, sunlight or freedom for nearly a month. Rescue efforts are under way, but it will take months to reach them.
NPR - 9/5/2010 5:00 AM
- Latin America
Some of the survivors of the 1972 Andean plane crash who lived for almost two months stranded in the mountains have arrived at the mine in Chile where 33 men are trapped underground. Host Liane Hansen explains how they have brought a message of solidarity to the miners.
NPR - 9/5/2010 5:00 AM
- Middle East
For the fourth time in less than four weeks, Israeli forces demolished the unrecognized Bedouin village of Kafr al Arakib this week. A mix of international and Israeli volunteers return each week to help rebuild, even though Israel insists that the village was built illegally and therefore must be razed.
NPR - 9/5/2010 4:13 AM
- World
As Pakistan struggles to overcome record floods, NPR's Julie McCarthy has been documenting the hardships of the people -- 8 million homeless -- and devastation to the land. She shares some of her impressions and experiences covering the disaster, which took her from the top of the country to the bottom and back up again.
NPR - 9/4/2010 1:17 PM
- Environment
Scientists collecting ice cores from Indonesia's Pancak Jaya say they saw the 16,000-foot glacier drop 12 inches in just two weeks. Puncak Jaya is one of the few tropical glaciers remaining in the world, and it's especially vulnerable to climate change. This makes it especially important to researchers.
NPR - 9/4/2010 10:57 AM
- Religion
The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., said it will burn the Islamic holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Religious leaders in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, have appealed to U.S. authorities to stop the event.
NPR - 9/4/2010 10:01 AM
- Economy
The U.S. unemployment rate surged far higher and has remained higher than in other major industrial countries. It's now at 9.6 percent. The big shift came when American companies cut workers more aggressively than foreign firms in the face of the financial crisis.
NPR - 9/4/2010 5:00 AM
- Middle East
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators finished up talks on Thursday, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to keep talking. Host Scott Simon talks with the Institute for Middle East Peace's Stephen P. Cohen about whether this really signals progress.
NPR - 9/4/2010 5:00 AM
- Afghanistan
Relations between the U.S. and the Afghan government are becoming severely strained again. Recent moves by Afghan President Hamid Karzai have both surprised and provoked concern in Washington, but options on how to deal with the Afghan leader are limited.
NPR - 9/3/2010 9:21 PM
- Asia
A $62-billion water diversion project 60 years in the making will channel water from the south of the country to the drought-prone North. The project will dislocate 330,000 people, who must leave their homes forever.
NPR - 9/3/2010 12:22 PM
- Life In Hamas-Ruled Gaza
Mohammed Saqar from Gaza and Dana Levy from Israel met when they were teenagers at a peace camp in the U.S. They once both believed in peace in the Middle East. Now, 14 years later, they are still friends -- but both have lost hope for Israel and Gaza.
NPR - 9/3/2010 12:00 PM
- Latin America
In his first public speech in four years, a military-clad Fidel Castro stood on the steps of the University of Havana and addressed thousands of students. He warned them U.S. and Israeli tensions with Iran are pushing the world toward nuclear war.
NPR - 9/3/2010 12:00 PM
- Commentary
London Mayor Boris Johnson, is a great believer in the idea of cycling to work, and since taking office, he's done a lot to encourage Londoners to take their commute on two wheels. NPR's new London correspondent, Philip Reeves, also likes the idea of riding his bicycle to work -- but is finds his fellow cyclists seem to take the whole thing far too seriously.
NPR - 9/3/2010 12:00 PM
- Africa
The United Nations has delayed the release of a report detailing a decade of gruesome attacks against civilians in the Congo after Rwanda protested the findings. Drafts of the report leaked to the media last week and accused Rwandan troops of slaughtering Hutus in Congo in the 1990s.
