Iran says it will no longer co-operate with the IAEA investigation

July 24, 2008 - 8:48 am

VIENNA, Austria - Iran will no longer co-operate with the International Atomic Energy Agency in its investigation of allegations that its government has tried to make nuclear arms, Iran's vice-president said Thursday.

Investigating such allegations "is outside the domain of the agency," ...

Serbia vows to track down people who helped Radovan Karadzic

July 24, 2008 - 8:18 am

BELGRADE, Serbia - Radovan Karadzic assumed his false identity during the autocratic rule of his mentor, an official said Thursday, promising to track down the people who helped the Bosnian Serb warlord stay on the run from genocide charges.

Bruno Vekaric, spokesman for Serbia's war crimes ...

Report says Taliban using sophisticated media network to undermine government

July 24, 2008 - 8:14 am

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report released Thursday.

The International ...

4 climbers, all members of 1 family, killed in fall from Mount Blanc

July 24, 2008 - 7:51 am

MILAN, Italy - Italian rescuers say four people have fallen to their deaths while climbing Mount Blanc, Europe's highest peak.

Italian news agency ANSA reports that the victims were a Dutch man and his three children. The mother was also with them and survived.

Adriano Fevre of the ...

Denmark says 2 soldiers injured in rocket attack in Afghanistan

July 24, 2008 - 7:50 am

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The Danish army says two soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, when a rocket hit their armoured vehicle in a battle with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

The army says the Danish unit came under attack Wednesday in the southern district of Gereshk.

The ...

Dolly's winds drop, but soaking rain continues in Rio Grande Valley

July 24, 2008 - 7:49 am

BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Widespread flooding was expected Thursday from hurricane Dolly that has loitered as a tropical storm overnight, soaking deep south Texas and northeastern Mexico with heavy rain.

Dolly slammed ashore Wednesday, ripping roofs off buildings with 161 kilometres per hour ...

4-year-old French girl beaten by father in Rome awakes from coma

July 24, 2008 - 7:47 am

ROME - A pediatric hospital says a four-year-old French child who was savagely beaten by her father in Rome has awaken from a coma and is improving.

Bambino Gesu hospital officials said in a release that they suspended sedation and that the child has regained consciousness.

The ...

Obama, Merkel hold 'vey open' talks on Iraq and Afghanistan

July 24, 2008 - 7:46 am

BERLIN - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as climate and energy issues at Germany's chancellery Thursday, part of a tour aimed at lifting the first-term senator's international ...

Serbia says it will reinstate ambassadors to European Union countries

July 24, 2008 - 7:40 am

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic says the government has decided to reinstate ambassadors withdrawn from European Union countries that supported Kosovo's independence.

Jeremic says the return of ambassadors will help Serbia's attempts to one day join the ...

Yushchenko believes former ally involved in his near-lethal poisoning

July 24, 2008 - 7:40 am

KYIV, Ukraine - President Viktor Yushchenko says he believes a former ally and friend was involved in his near-fatal poisoning four years ago.

Yushchenko Thursday named David Zhvania, a member of a pro-presidential parliamentary faction and the godfather of one of his children, as a ...

Helicopter rescues 2 Italian climbers from Pakistani mountain

July 24, 2008 - 7:37 am

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani official says an army helicopter has saved two Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains.

Walter Nones and Simon Kehrer had been struggling to descend from Nanga Parbat mountain since July 16, when fellow climber Karl Unterkircher fell to ...

Aftershocks kill 1, injure at least 10 in China earthquake, media reports

July 24, 2008 - 7:36 am

BEIJING - Xinhua News Agency is reporting three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday killing one person and injuring more than 10.

Xinhua says a six magnitude earthquake hit parts of Shaanxi and Sichuan province on Thursday afternoon, following earlier shocks of 5.6 and 4.9 ...

Australian prime minister revives plans to include Aborigines in constitution

July 24, 2008 - 7:35 am

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister, who has won applause for apologizing to Aborigines for past wrongs, has revived plans for a constitutional revision to recognize the country's indigenous people.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was visiting a remote Outback Aboriginal community ...

Israel to build new Jewish settlement in West Bank, official says

July 24, 2008 - 7:34 am

JERUSALEM - An Israeli official says a key committee has approved construction of the first new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in a decade.

The news infuriated Palestinians, who said the decision could cripple peace efforts.

The official says the only hurdle that remains is ...

UN war crimes court fines Kosovo journalist US$11,000 for publishing name of witness

July 24, 2008 - 7:32 am

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted and fined an award-winning journalist US$11,000 Thursday for publishing the name of a witness who testified anonymously in the trial of Kosovo's former prime minister.

Baton Haxhiu, editor of the daily Kosovo Express, was ...

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