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International News
CAIRO (AP) — Far from the din and controversy roiling interfaith relations in the West, Muslims worldwide thronged mosques, cafes and parks Friday in a solemn and joyful end to the fasting month of Ramadan.
HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro said Friday his comments about the Cuban economic model no longer working were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist — taking back an admission that caused a stir around the globe.
SENJERAY, Afghanistan (AP) — Pfc. Sean Provenzano saw it whiz by out of the corner of his eye: a dark object hurled from a rooftop as he patrolled the medieval maze of alleyways in this fort-like walled village at the center of America's Afghan surge.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has agreed to pay $400 million to Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.
INSIDE LAS CUEVAS MINE, Spain (AP) — Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels — but by their own choice.
BIEL, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss police say they may have to change tactics in their hunt for a fugitive gunman who shot and seriously wounded one officer in the western city of Biel.
TOKYO (AP) — More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's president has ordered a mining suspension in volatile eastern Congo. President Joseph Kabila ordered the indefinite suspension Wednesday near the mining hub of Walikale, where more than 240 people were treated for rape last month.
MADRID (AP) — U.S. film company Paramount says it is teaming up with officials to develop a branded theme park in the Murcia region on Spain's Mediterranean coast.
GANJUWA, Nigeria (AP) — Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 Nigerians in two months.
ROME (AP) — A river of mud unleashed by heavy rains has flooded a tiny village on Italy's Amalfi Coast, and at least one person was reported missing.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday hotly rejected criticism of his country as authoritarian, calling it a young democracy, but indicated authorities won't ease up on opposition movements whose attempts to rally are often broken up harshly by police.
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said Friday.
BERLIN (AP) — At the center of Yoko Ono's new installation is a perfectly round bullet hole shot through a large pane of glass that John Lennon's widow says challenges viewers to confront "incredible violence and abuse" in the world today.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — A witness says a lightning strike has killed four people at a wedding in a village in Mauritania. Wedding guest El Hadi Ould Mohamed says the lightning bolt struck the Friday morning festivities and killed two women and two men.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African emergency officials say 31 people were injured when a passenger train crashed into a stationary goods train east of Johannesburg.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt.
LONDON (AP) — A British minister says he hired private detectives to spy on his staff after unflattering stories appeared in the media.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help in fighting AIDS.
TOKYO (AP) — Veteran Japanese lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa is widely unpopular and could be indicted for political finance violations next month.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Opposition deputies in Ukraine's notoriously unruly parliament are blocking doors to the chamber with chairs as a protest against austerity measures.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — The widow of independent Mozambique's first president says the debate over food in her impoverished homeland does not end with the government's reversal on bread prices.
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