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Ivory probe team blocked from church
MANILA — Philippine authorities looking for religious statues made from “blood” ivory were prevented from entering a church where the banned items were allegedly kept, a government investigator said Saturday.A joint team from the Justice Department’s investigation bureau and the ...
Nepal: Pilot error likely cause of plane crash
KATHMANDU — Nepal said Saturday an error by a “panic-stricken” pilot likely caused the crash of an Everest-bound plane that killed all 19 on board.The twin-propeller Sita Air plane had just taken off on Friday from Kathmandu and was headed ...
Thousands rally in Karachi against anti-Islam film
Pakistani activists gather as they take part in a protest rally against an anti-Islam film in Karachi, Saturday. — AFPKARACHI — Thousands of people thronged the streets of Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi on Saturday in the latest protest against ...
Violence stalks women workers in Afghanistan
KABUL — Muzhgan Masoomi’s attacker stabbed her 14 times with a thick blade used to slaughter animals, tearing wide gashes in her flesh before leaving the government worker for dead on the outskirts of the Afghan capital.With a severe limp ...
Guantanamo’s last Western detainee returns to Canada
A courtroom sketch shows defendant Omar Khadr, a native of Toronto, Canada, listening to testimony during his sentencing hearing at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, in this sketch from Oct. 26, 2010. — ReutersWINNIPEG, Manitoba — The youngest ...
China leaders stage show of unity after expelling Bo Xilai
BEIJING — China’s leaders put on a show of unity on Saturday after their damning accusations against disgraced politician Bo Xilai, whose expulsion from the Communist Party drew an outcry from leftist supporters in a sign of the rifts his ...
Tens of thousands join Georgia opposition rally ahead of polls
Opposition supporters hold party flags in the center of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, Saturday.— APTBILISI — Tens of thousands of Georgians joined one of the biggest opposition rallies in the ex-Soviet state in years Saturday on the final day of campaigning ...
China test satellite
A Chinese rocket takes off with the Venezuelan earth observation satellite Miranda from the remote Gobi desert in Jiuquan, northwest China’s Gansu province, Saturday. The satellite is named after Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda. — AFP
German court: Muslim girl cannot skip swim class
BERLIN — A German court on Friday refused to allow a Muslim student to skip swimming lessons after she said she was uncomfortable being so close to bare-chested boys.The 12-year-old, originally from Morocco but going to school in the southern ...
Al-Shabab withdraws from Kismayo
MOGADISHU — Al-Shabab rebels pulled out of a key port city in southern Somalia, the group said Saturday, a day after Kenyan troops invaded and marched toward the city center and seaside port that long served as the militants’ key ...
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