By David D. Kirkpatrick and Mayy El Sheikh, New York Times, Sept. 5/6, 2013
CAIRO — A powerful bomb blasted through a convoy of cars carrying the interior minister along a residential street on Thursday, raising fears of a widely predicted turn toward terrorist violence by opponents of the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.
By James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian, 5 Sept., 2013
[...] the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.
Vladimir Putin says his differences with President Obama aren't personal, or permanent.
"President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia," Putin told the Associated Press. "And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either."
By Chuck Schilken, "Sports Now" @ Latimes.com, September 3, 2013
A week after saying he could become "the most powerful guy in the world" by negotiating the release of jailed U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae, former NBA star Dennis Rodman seems to have lowered the expectations for his latest trip to North Korea considerably.
31 August 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with the top United Nations disarmament official, just back from Damascus, on the chemical weapons investigation and the latest developments in Syria. The meeting comes as the UN inspection team arrived in the Netherlands earlier today to carry out a rapid analysis of samples gathered.
Colombian President Manuel Santos deployed members of the country's armed forces in an effort to quell violent protests that have paralyzed many cities including the capital of Bogotá.
By Kevin Rawlinson and agencies, theguardian.com, 30 August 2013
Julian Assange has been told to stop using the Ecuadorean embassy in London to poke fun at Australian politicians as part of his Senate election bid, it has been reported.
By Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janiero, guardian.co.uk, 28 August, 2013
Dilma Rousseff, the Brazilian president, has accused the nation's doctors of "immense prejudice" towards their Cuban counterparts after the first medics to arrive from Havana were greeted with jeers.
By Jenny Clover and Pete Jones, in Kigali and Goma, Reuters, August 29, 2013
Rwanda accused Congo on Thursday of shelling its territory and said it would not tolerate such “provocation,” raising fears that violence in eastern Congo could erupt into a regional conflict.
The Democratic Republic of Congo said Rwanda’s accusation was a sign the country wanted to intervene openly in its eastern war. Rwanda has denied accusations by U.N. experts that it covertly backs Congo’s M23 rebels.
CAIRO — A powerful bomb blasted through a convoy of cars carrying the interior minister along a residential street on Thursday, raising fears of a widely predicted turn toward terrorist violence by opponents of the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.
Julian Assange has been told to stop using the Ecuadorean embassy in London to poke fun at Australian politicians as part of his Senate election bid, it has been reported.