KABUL (AFP) – Five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO said, as the number of Americans to die in the war in the past four days climbed to 22. Four soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan in a Taliban-style bomb attack, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. The fifth died in [Continue]
YEREVAN (AFP) – Armenia and Russia signed a deal Friday extending Moscow’s military presence in the ex-Soviet republic by decades and making Russian troops responsible for Armenia’s national security. [Continue]
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Haitian President Rene Preval received Wyclef Jean Thursday as the quake-hit country waits to hear if the hip-hop star will be allowed to compete in upcoming presidential elections. [Continue]
SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia should become a republic when Queen Elizabeth dies, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday in comments which may revive a long-running debate just days ahead of national polls. Gillard, whose centre-left Labor Party is in a tight electoral race against a conservative coalition, said the queen’s death would [Continue]
LYON, France (AFP) – A Frenchwoman has admitted killing her partner, a retired chef, and preserving his body in a freezer for two years in France’s gastronomic capital Lyon, prosecutors said. Guylene Collober, 51, confessed to fatally punching her 71-year-old companion Jean-Francois Poinard, in November 2008, prosecutor Marc Desert [Continue]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies breathed a wary sigh of relief Wednesday after primary voters in Colorado gave them a rare break from anti-incumbent fever ahead of November elections. And Obama’s Republican foes faced fresh questions about the rise of fiercely anti-Washington “Tea Party” [Continue]
US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO, Cuba (AFP) – A US military judge gave authorities Wednesday 60 days to resolve a dispute over the detention conditions of a former Osama bin Laden bodyguard that delayed his sentencing. Ibrahim Al Qosi, a 51-year-old Sudanese national, pleaded guilty in early July to conspiracy and material support for terrorism. [Continue]
SUKKUR, Pakistan (AFP) – Pakistan issued fresh flood warnings on Wednesday, putting parts of Punjab and Sindh on alert and calling on foreign donors to step up efforts to contain the country’s worst humanitarian disaster. The United Nations was to launch an international appeal in New York, calling for hundreds of millions of dollars [Continue]
