International - News & Opinion - BostonHerald.com

Singapore's economy emerges from recession

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:42 -0400

SINGAPORE - Singapore's economy grew for the first time in a year, soaring 20 percent in the second quarter, a sign Asia is emerging from the global slump. Gross domestic...

Ten women flogged for wearing pants in Sudan

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:45:32 -0400

CAIRO - Thirteen Sudanese women were arrested in a raid on a Khartoum cafe and 10 were flogged in public for wearing trousers in violation of Sudan's strict Islamic law,...

British face hard questions on Afghanistan losses

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:16:07 -0400

LONDON - A steep rise in casualties has sparked a soul-searching debate about the value of the Afghan war inside Britain, the major international partner for the U.S. in...

AP Impact: Crooked Afghan police challenge Marines

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:47:07 -0400

AYNAK, Afghanistan - Afghan villagers had complained to the U.S. Marines for days: The police are the problem, not the Taliban. They steal from villagers and beat them. Days...

Iraq beefs up security after attacks on Christians

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:32:32 -0400

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials tightened security around churches in Baghdad and in two mostly Christian towns on Monday and braced for possible violence this weekend when huge...

Bomb explodes during Northern Ireland march; no injuries

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:09:54 -0400

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Police in Northern Ireland say a small bomb has detonated in the city of Armagh as Protestant hard-liners paraded across the British territory....

WHO: No licensed swine flu vaccine til end of year

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:05:52 -0400

LONDON - A fully licensed swine flu vaccine might not be available until the end of the year, a top official at the World Health Organization said Monday, in a report that...

Police eye wife in Gatti's death, rule out nothing

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:51:19 -0400

RIO DE JANEIRO - Police investigating the death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti are working on the assumption his wife strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly...

Report: NKorea's Kim has pancreatic cancer

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:08:57 -0400

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il is suffering from pancreatic cancer and is not expected to live more than five years, a news report...

Britain investigates Iraqi man's death in custody

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:15:23 -0400

LONDON - A lawyer claimed Monday that British soldiers forced an Iraqi detainee to dance like Michael Jackson as part of widespread abuse and humiliation of civilians in southern...

Japan lifts ban on children donating organs

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:59:16 -0400

TOKYO - Japan lifted a ban today on organ donations from children, reversing a restriction that created such a dearth of small organs in the country that young patients were...

Iran conservative candidate warns of 'implosion'

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:49:02 -0400

TEHRAN,Iran - Iran's defeated conservative candidate criticized both the government and opposition protesters, warning that more post-election turmoil could destabilize...

China says police kill 2 Uighur men, wound third

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:32:36 -0400

URUMQI, China - China's government says police shot dead two Uighur men and wounded a third after the men attacked officers who were breaking up "a violent incident." A...

John Demjanjuk charged over WWII killings

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:30:56 -0400

MUNICH - German prosecutors formally charged John Demjanjuk on Monday with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II. The...

Lawless Pakistan region targeted

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:24:07 -0400

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Fighter jets pounded suspected militant hideouts in the South Waziristan tribal region yesterday as part of ongoing operations against Pakistani...

Bomb blast in Afghanistan claims lives of 2 Marines

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:23:27 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan - A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive operation to...

NASA re-creates giant leap with Web

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:11:12 -0400

Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon. Now, theyll be able to watch the Apollo...

4 runners gored in Pamplona's bull-running

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:14:08 -0400

PAMPLONA, Spain - Bulls gored four runners, seriously injuring two of them, during a packed running of the bulls on the sixth day of the San Fermin festival on Sunday. One...

Death toll from India toxic homebrew rises to 122

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:34:57 -0400

AHMADABAD, India - People sickened after drinking a toxic home-brewed liquor continued to arrive at hospitals in western India, as the death toll from the tainted drink rose...

4 US soldiers killed in Afghan bomb blasts

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:12:36 -0400

KABUL - Bomb blasts have killed four U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan. Military spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Christine Sidenstricker says improvised explosive devices killed...

Guinea government warns of coup plot

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:54:56 -0400

CONAKRY, Guinea - Guinea's military leaders have uncovered a plot to overthrow the government in the poor, unstable West African nation, state radio reported. It said...

Charles Taylor to begin his war crimes defense

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:10:58 -0400

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - For a year, prosecution witnesses accused former Liberian President Charles Taylor of atrocities ranging from cannibalism to commanding Sierra Leone...

Injured toll from China riots raised to 1,680

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:09:04 -0400

URUMQI, China - State media says the Xinjiang government has raised the injured toll in last week's riots in the restive Chinese region to 1,680. The official Xinhua...

5 Iranian officials released by US return to Iran

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:07:00 -0400

TEHRAN, Iran - Five Iranian officials who were held in Iraq for more than two years by U.S. forces on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants returned to Iran Sunday,...

No easy end in sight for Honduras coup crisis

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:22:05 -0400

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Delegates representing the ousted and interim governments of Honduras failed to forge an agreement during a second day of talks and no fixed date was...