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Southern Copper 2Q profit falls 24 pct

Posted on Jul 25, 2008 - 12:14 am
AP - Peru's Southern Copper Corp. on Thursday said second-quarter profit fell 24 percent from the year-ago period amid strikes and higher fuel and production costs.

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SAfrican lawyer nominated as UN human rights chief
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 7:05 pm - AP
AP - One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated Thursday to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

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Serbia IDs man behind Karadzic's false identity
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 5:29 pm - AP
AP - The real Dragan Dabic has emerged — and the 66-year-old construction worker was shocked Thursday to discover his identity had apparently been stolen by one of the world's most notorious war crimes suspects.

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Suicide bomber kills 8 US-allied Sunnis in Iraq
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 3:34 pm - AP
AP - A female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqouba, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24 other people Thursday evening, police said.

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Spanish police find over 100 kilos of ETA explosives: reports
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 3:34 pm - AFP
AFP - Police have found over 100 kilos (220 pounds) of explosives in northern Spain belonging to ETA in an operation linked to the arrest earlier this week of nine suspected members of the Basque separatist group, media reports said Thursday.

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Sudan's Beshir pledges peace as he leaves Darfur
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 1:38 pm - AFP
AFP - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir paraded as a man of peace on Thursday as he wrapped up a heavily protected tour of Darfur defying accusations that he masterminded genocide in the region.

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Sudan's president vows to work for Darfur peace
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 12:02 pm - AP
AP - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, charged with genocide and war crimes in Darfur, vowed Thursday to work for peace in the war-wracked desert region and the return of hundreds of thousands of people forced by attacks to flee their homes.

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Serbia seeks key to Karadzic's false identity
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 9:09 am - AP
AP - Radovan Karadzic was preparing 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.

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Sudan invites foreign experts to check judiciary
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 8:31 am - Reuters
Reuters - Sudan has invited international experts to inspect its legal system to see whether it is capable of holding trials for war crimes committed in Darfur, the justice minister said on Thursday.

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Seven cops, 15 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 7:14 am - AFP
AFP - Seven policemen were killed in new attacks in Afghanistan, while a joint NATO-Afghan operation to take back a district captured by Taliban left 15 militants dead, authorities said Thursday.

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Sudan's president boogies on last Darfur pit stop
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 7:14 am - AFP
AFP - A dancing Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir paraded as a man of peace on Thursday during a heavily protected tour of Darfur defying accusations that he masterminded genocide in the region.

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Scientists find complete dinosaur fossil
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 2:45 am - AP
AP - Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.

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Strong quake jolts north Japan, 107 hurt
Posted on Jul 24, 2008 - 1:08 am - Reuters
Reuters - A strong earthquake jolted northern Japan early on Thursday, injuring more than 100 people, trapping hundreds in halted trains and affecting production at some high-tech factories.

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Sudan's president pays defiant visit to Darfur
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 4:29 pm - AP
AP - Sudan's president made a defiant visit to Darfur just a week after being charged with genocide in the war-ravaged region, vowing not to be intimidated by the indictment and then breaking into a tribal dance on a parched field to the delight of cheering supporters.

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Strong earthquake hits northern Japan
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 1:17 pm - AFP
AFP - A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook northern Japan early Thursday, injuring more than a dozen people as the force shattered windows and set off fires, officials said.

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Suspicion, terrain are foes for US in Afghan surge
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 1:17 pm - AP
AP - As violence in Afghanistan escalates, the U.S. is responding by scrambling to get in more troops. But it's far from clear how the strategy will work in a vast, rugged land where hiding places are many and suspicion of foreign forces is deep.

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Swiss: Libya retaliating for Gadhafi son's arrest
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 12:38 pm - AP
AP - Switzerland warned its citizens Wednesday not to travel to Libya, saying the North African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss police arrested the youngest son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for allegedly beating two of his servants.

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Strong quake jolts northern Japan, no tsunami
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 11:59 am - Reuters
Reuters - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northern Japan early on Thursday, but there was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Siemens mulls sale of Czech train factory
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 11:59 am - AFP
AFP - The German engineering group Siemens is mulling the sale of a Czech factory, where 950 workers make trains, as part of the restructuring of its transport division, it said on Wednesday.

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Storm delays rescue of Himalayan climbers
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 11:40 am - AP
AP - Organizers of a Himalayan climb say bad weather has delayed a helicopter rescue for two Italians descending a mountain in Pakistan following the death of a fellow climber.

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Sudanese president is defiant in Darfur visit
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 10:42 am - AP
AP - Sudan's president said Wednesday he would not be cowed by his indictment on genocide charges nor allow it to distract him from seeking peace in troubled Darfur.

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Sri Lanka 85-2 in first India Test
Posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 10:04 am - AFP
AFP - Sri Lankan opener Malinda Warnapura defied India's attack with an unbeaten half-century on the opening day of the rain-hit first Test on Wednesday.

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