International Headlines October 14
October 13, 2008 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet Power Sharing Talks In Zimbabwe Falter Zimbabwe’s opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai, walked out of power-sharing talks on Wednesday, Business Day reports. The country’s ruling PF party headed by Robert Mugabe and the opposition MDC party had signed an agreement last month that allotted certain [...]
International News June 16
June 19, 2008 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet Taliban insurgents coordinated an attack on a southern Afghan prison Friday, freeing over 1,000 prisoners, including militants, The Los Angeles Times reports. Truck bomb was used to open the front gate around 9 p.m. in Kandahar, while a suicide bomber struck the back of the facility, the Associated Press reports. Among the 1,000-plus [...]
International News May 5
May 5, 2008 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet At least 15 people were killed and 55 injured after a bomb hit a mosque Friday in the northern part of the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen, BBC reports. Local officials said the bomb was hidden in a car or a motorcycle and Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the leader of a local Shia rebellion group, [...]
International News April 28
April 28, 2008 by Andrea Toochin
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Send to KindleTweet Jerusalem’s Western Wall is said to be crumbling, according to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who is in charge of monitoring the wall, The Telegraph reports. The 60-foot wall is sacred because it is believed to be the last remaining part of the ancient Second Temple. “We found that the stones at the bottom [...]
