Month: April 2011

Grief-stricken relatives threw themselves on caskets and wept to exhaustion as Rio buried most of the 12 children killed in a school shooting. The massacre shocked Brazilians and stoked new calls for stricter guns laws. […] […]

Japan’s government has announced it will ban farmers from planting rice in soil contaminated by radiation from the tsunami-flooded nuclear power plant, adding to the list of items raising concerns about another food central to […] […]

BAGHDAD — A day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that American troops could remain here for years, tens of thousands of protesters allied with Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American Shiite cleric, flooded the streets […] […]

BAGHDAD—Iran’s top diplomat on Saturday praised Iraqi authorities for launching a deadly raid on a camp of Iranian exiles considered terrorists by Tehran. Iran’s lone voice of support against a chorus of international criticism of […] […]

PARIS—Paris police say authorities arrested 61 people—including 19 women—in connection with their attempt to hold an illegal Paris demonstration against France’s upcoming ban on face-covering Islamic veils. A top Paris police official says 59 people […] […]

ISRAELI tank fire killed a Palestinian in Gaza early this morning, taking to 12 the overall toll from the deadliest 24 hours since a devastating war more than two years ago. A truce declared by […] […]

AMSTERDAM—A gunman opened fire with a machine gun at a crowded shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least seven people dead and wounding 15 others, officials and witnesses said. The attacker was among […] […]

CAIRO—Soldiers beat hundreds of protesters with clubs and fired heavy volleys of gunfire into the air in a pre-dawn attack that broke up a demonstration in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, a sign of the increasing […] […]

The two young men on the north Belfast street corner approved of the bomb which killed young Catholic police recruit Ronan Kerr last Sunday. “Aye, that’s good stuff, aye,” said one. “I just hate cops […] […]