Peru declares state of emergency as toxic materials threaten Lima water
July 19, 2008 - 11:15 pm
LIMA, Peru - Peru's government has declared a state of emergency at a Canadian-owned mine east of Lima, fearing toxic materials there could spill into the capital city's main water source. President Alan Garcia's government decreed a 60-day state of emergency in the mountainous district of ...
Memorial service held for former Edmonton resident killed in North Carolina
July 19, 2008 - 11:44 pm
RALEIGH, N.C. - The family and friends of a former Edmonton resident slain in North Carolina held a public memorial service Saturday to mourn the 34-year-old woman whose body was found Monday near her home. Local TV station WRAL reported that Nancy Cooper's two young daughters Bela, four, ...
Rapper DMX arrested at Phoenix mall on felony charge of ID theft
July 19, 2008 - 11:03 pm
PHOENIX - Rapper DMX has been arrested at a Phoenix mall on a felony charge of taking the identity of another. Phoenix police didn't have details of the charge, as it stemmed from a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office case. Hill says DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was taken for ...
Inmate loses weight and manages to escape through jail's air vent
July 19, 2008 - 10:42 pm
HEMPSTEAD, Texas - A man charged with murder has escaped from a Texas jail by climbing through an air conditioner vent. The vent was less than 30 centimetres wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing weight since arriving at the Waller County Jail in ...
Woman in Pennsylvania baby mystery partially eviscerated
July 19, 2008 - 10:42 pm
PITTSBURGH - Investigators on Saturday were trying to identify the body of a woman found bound with duct tape with her uterus cut open in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn baby was her own. Allegheny County Police Assistant Superintendent James Morton said ...
Pope urges young people to spurn the ?spiritual desert? of modern society
July 19, 2008 - 10:26 pm
SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict has urged young people to reject the "spiritual desert" that he says is spreading throughout the world. Benedict said at a mass Sunday before more than 200,000 young Roman Catholic pilgrims that they would be responsible for building a new age free from ...
Canadian soldier James Hayward Arnal killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
July 19, 2008 - 10:20 pm
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was killed by a roadside explosion, the military announced on a violent day that also saw a suicide bomber blow himself up just outside the gate of the main Canadian base in Kandahar. The suicide attack outside Kandahar Airfield occurred just ...
For Iraqi refugees, the wait drags on for chance at a new life in new country
July 19, 2008 - 10:03 pm
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Their lives have become like dying clocks, slowly winding down to a stop. They skip meals, they sleep longer to avoid the expenses that simply being awake brings. One woman sells her blood to earn a bit of cash. For some Iraqi refugees, the wait for their fate to ...
Lawsuit says a Long Island diner harassed for hosting Hispanics
July 19, 2008 - 9:53 pm
HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. - The owners of a Long Island diner say police raided, blockaded and threatened to shut down their eatery to try to stop them from catering to Hispanics. Hampton Bays Diner owners Frank and Maria Vlahadamis have filed a $55-million federal lawsuit against Southampton ...
Food rise has Bolivia's coca farmers planting rice instead of cocaine
July 19, 2008 - 9:51 pm
SINAHOTA, Bolivia - Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: Persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. The unlikely advocate for change is Bolivian President Evo Morales, who ...
Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon injured in helicopter crash
July 19, 2008 - 9:44 pm
SEOUL, South Korea - The founder of the Unification Church, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, is recovering from injuries he suffered when a helicopter taking him to a church-linked hospital crashed into a mountain in poor visibility. Moon, 88, was one of 16 people on board the helicopter when it ...
More than 1.5 million dance to techno beats at annual Love Parade mass-rave
July 19, 2008 - 9:16 pm
BERLIN - More than 1.5 million people danced through the streets of the western German city of Dortmund at the annual Love Parade techno music festival. Once a summer institution in Berlin, the parade - staged under the motto "Highway of Love" - moved last year to Germany's industrial Ruhr ...
Brazil oil rig workers end strike and finally return to their jobs
July 19, 2008 - 9:13 pm
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Union officials say offshore oil workers have ended their five-day strike. The Sindipetro-NF union says workers returned to their jobs as scheduled without reaching a deal with Brazil's state oil company. The workers went on strike on Monday to demand an extra day ...
Lebanese security says two pro al-Qaida militants killed at a refugee camp
July 19, 2008 - 9:07 pm
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese security officials say two Palestinian militants allied to a pro al-Qaida group have been killed in a clash with members of the mainstream Fatah movement in a southern refugee camp. One of those killed was a member of the Jund al-Sham group, which follows the ...
Report says that Kurdish rebels have killed four in an attack on a village
July 19, 2008 - 9:06 pm
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have killed four people in an attack on a small village in southeast Turkey. The Anatolia news agency says the rebels rounded up people in the village in Bingol province and shot and killed four of them. Seven others ...
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