Mexico Detains Eight Suspects in Journalist Killings
Posted: 8:07 PM State Attorney General Amadeo Flores Espinosa says all the suspects are alleged members of the New Generation gang allied with Mexico's powerful Sinaloa Cartel.
Posted: 8:07 PM State Attorney General Amadeo Flores Espinosa says all the suspects are alleged members of the New Generation gang allied with Mexico's powerful Sinaloa Cartel.
Posted: 12:12 PM 7 U.S. soldiers, 3 Afghan soldiers and 1 interpreter are killed when the Blackhawk helicopter they were flying in crashed in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. The Taliban claims they shot the helicopter down.
Posted: 10:02 PM 31 were wounded.
Posted: 10:01 PM It's suspected that rockets were fired from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Posted: 10:00 PM Lobbyist Walter Corley says he has been focusing on how to stem a deadly cholera outbreak ever since he was hired by the Haitian government in April.
Posted: 9:59 PM The air force statement says forces have cordoned off the area around Kamra Airbase.
Posted: 7:43 PM Thousands are homeless.
Posted: 7:42 PM The blast brought the death toll to at least 46 in a bloody day for Afghanistan, after as many as 14 suicide bombers were involved in attacks in a southwestern city.
Posted: 3:51 PM Brazil's president says the South American nation will spend $69 Billion to improve the country's roads, rails, and ports by the end of 2014.
Posted: 3:03 PM Following a series of aftershocks from a weekend earthquake, Iran's government now says it would welcome foreign aid to help cope with the destruction.
Posted: 7:01 PM Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes waved the five-ringed flag as he descended Monday from his flight from London, where he was on hand for the Olympic closing ceremony a day earlier.
Posted: 7:00 PM An Interior Ministry statement released Monday called the reports "absolutely baseless and ill motivated."
Posted: 6:59 PM More than 50 Syrian refugee youths said they wanted to flee.
Posted: 6:58 PM A year after a far-right militant's bomb and gun attacks exposed flaws in Norway's terror preparedness, police are being criticized for failing to improve their ability to stop a gunman bent on inflicting mass casualties.
Posted: 4:25 AM The Health Ministry says bird flu has killed a 37-year-old man in central Indonesia, marking the country's ninth fatality this year.
Posted: 4:23 AM Afghanistan's government may be taking a small step toward reopening talks with the Taliban.
Posted: 4:21 AM Iran has raised the death toll from Saturday's twin earthquakes to 306, a day after rescuers called off the search for survivors.
Posted: 4:20 AM Japan reports its economy grew at a slower-than-expected annualized rate of 1.4 percent in April-June, adding to worries over the global outlook.
Posted: 4:57 PM Images broadcast on the main news channel showed dozens of families of sleeping outdoors in parks, with blankets laid out on the ground.
Posted: 4:56 PM The president of the Syrian National Council, Abdelbaset Sieda, told The Associated Press on Sunday that such a move by the international community would show President Bashar Assad's regime that his opponents are serious.
Posted: 4:55 PM Police say gunmen have shot down the mayor-elect of a town in San Luis Potosi state and a campaign adviser while they were riding in a vehicle with another person.
Posted: 4:54 PM Organizers say the ceremony -- scheduled to last 2 hours, 45 minutes -- is being broadcast to more than 300 million viewers around the world.
Posted: 4:32 PM 1,300 are reported injured.
Posted: 4:30 PM Iraqi officials say gunmen on motorcycles killed seven Shiite Muslims in a targeted sectarian attack in the north of the country.
Posted: 3:33 AM At least 13 devotees have been killed by lightning outside a mosque in northeastern Bangladesh.