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BELGRADE, Serbia, July 22 — Dragan Dabic, as he called himself, lectured on spirituality, practiced alternative medicine and promised on his Web site to vanquish afflictions ranging from impotence to autism with his “energy healing treatment.”
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U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that elements of Pakistan’s military intelligence service provided logistical support to militants who staged last month’s deadly car bombing at the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital, U.S. officials familiar with the evidence said yesterday.
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TIJUANA, Mexico — Half a dozen prostitutes swarm Angel Cabrera’s car as he inches along the traffic-choked streets of downtown Tijuana on a balmy Friday evening.
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UNITED NATIONS, July 23 — Rwanda has warned that it will withdraw its 3,000 peacekeepers from a U.N.-backed mission in the Darfur region of Sudan if the United Nations refuses to retain an alleged Rwandan war criminal as its second-highest-ranking commander there, according to U.S. and U.N. officials.
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When President Bush announced his plan, in January 2007, to launch a “surge” of U.S. troops in Iraq, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called the initiative the “best possible chance” for success and proposed a Senate resolution supporting it. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) called the troop buildup “another tired and failed policy” and introduced a bill […]
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BAGHDAD, July 31 — Five American troops died in July as a result of combat in Iraq, by far the lowest monthly U.S. death toll of the five-year war.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has a clear edge in the Kadima party race to replace scandal-hit Ehud Olmert, polls showed on Friday, but officials questioned her ability to form a coalition and become prime minister.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a fourth time on Friday in their ongoing bribery and fraud investigation, two days after the Israeli leader said he would step down.
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Aid agencies in Afghanistan have warned they may become unable to operate in parts of the country once seen as safe, because of the intensifying conflict.
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The official said that top CIA and U.S. military officials, including CIA Deputy Director Steve R. Kappes, traveled to Pakistan five days after the Indian Embassy attack to press their misgivings about apparent ties between militants and some mid-level ISI officials, amid mounting evidence initially collected by the United States and then corroborated by Indian […]
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A man aboard a Greyhound
bus repeatedly stabbed and decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses
said yesterday.
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A woman thought to have killed her five-year-old son before taking her own life left his father notes saying he could “enjoy his life, as there was nothing to stop him now”, an inquest heard today.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (July 31) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had his first skirmishes with the U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday: He was cut short by the judge when he tried to protest his arrest, and put on notice that the prosecution will object to his demand to represent himself.
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The dismembered body of a 17-year-old British girl has been found in a suitcase in Brazil.
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Fiji’s police department is again in the spotlight after a prison escapee was put on a life-support system after being brutally bashed during his arrest.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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But it’s not like the AKP (Justice and Development Party) got off unscathed in the case brought against it for allegedly pushing an anti-secular agenda. Six justices of the Constitutional Court voted to shut down the party, while five voted against it. Yet the votes of seven justices were needed to ban the party.
According to […]
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In a letter sent earlier this week to Doll God, LLC, Attorney General Madigan demanded that the (San Francisco-based) company immediately cease all marketing and sales of Meth Coffee in the State of Illinois, citing the devastating impact that methamphetamine has had in communities in Illinois.
The product is advertised as an illicit drug, with […]
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11:25pm UK, Thursday July 31, 2008
The mutilated torso of a 17-year-old British girl has been found in a suitcase beneath a bridge in the Brazilian city of Goiania.
Cara Marie Burke and Mohamed D’Ali Carvalho Santos
The victim, identified by a distinguishing tattoo as Cara Marie Burke, was killed on Sunday night, according to Jose Maria da […]