World News

Sunday, November 8, 2009
  • Interactive graphic on US military base Fort Hood, Texas, where an army psychiatrist about to be sent to Iraq went on the rampage, gunning down 13 people and wounding 30.

    Obama to attend Fort Hood rampage memorial

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) - - US President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service here this week to honor victims of the shooting rampage on the military base in which 13 people died, the White House said Saturday. More »

  • The construction site where a bridge collapsed in Massana near Andorre-la-Vielle. A bridge collapse in Andorra Saturday killed at least three workers, left seven badly hurt and one missing, feared buried under the rubble, the government said.

    Three killed in Andorra bridge collapse

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    ANDORRA LA VELLA (AFP) - - A bridge collapse in Andorra Saturday killed at least three workers, left seven badly hurt and one missing, feared buried under the rubble, the government said. More »

  • Chancellor Alistair Darling attends a G20 Finance Ministers group photograph outside the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews. G20 countries committed to work for an

    G20 fails to reach pre-Copenhagen climate finance deal

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    ST ANDREWS, Scotland (AFP) - - G20 nations fell short of reaching agreement on climate finance a month before key UN talks, while pledging Saturday to maintain stimulus measures for a still "uneven" global economy. More »

  • Families hold Rio memorial for doomed Air France flight

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - - Families of the 228 people who died when an Air France jet airliner crashed off Brazil's northeast coast in June held a private memorial service Saturday at an ocean overlook in Rio de Janeiro. More »

  • Yushchenko to blame for Russia-Ukraine spat: Medvedev

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    MOSCOW (AFP) - - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that his "Russophobe" Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko was the sole reason for the decline in relations between the two countries. More »

  • Saudi and Yemen battle Zaidi rebels

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    AL-KHUBAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - - Saudi forces pounded Yemeni rebels on Saturday for a fifth straight day as Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh ruled out a truce in his war on the Shiite insurgents. More »

  • Iran to reject UN-brokered nuclear plan: leading MP

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iran has decided to reject proposals from major powers for the supply of nuclear fuel, a leading member of parliament said on Saturday, in a serious setback for UN-brokered efforts to allay Western concerns about its atomic ambitions. More »

  • Obama pleads for health care overhaul, vote looms

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - President Barack Obama, fighting for his top domestic priority, urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to "vote yes" Saturday on the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century. More »

  • ICC prosecutor confident over Kenya suspects

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    NAIROBI (AFP) - - Top war crimes prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Saturday he has a strong case against the masterminds behind last year's post-election violence in Kenya. More »

  • Lebanon's Hariri to announce new govt

    AFP - Sunday, November 8

    BEIRUT (AFP) - - Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad Hariri was preparing to announce a new government on Saturday after granting concessions to his rivals in the Hezbollah-led opposition on key cabinet posts. More »