Middle East News
European News
Canadian News
Latin American News
Asian News
Australian & Pacific News
African News
|
|
|
|
|
|
Brazilian: Pilots followed flight plan
Oct 17 2006 10:37PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Two American pilots followed their flight plan for at least part of the way before their plane collided with a passenger jet, the apparent cause of a deadly crash, the defense minister said Tuesday.
|
|
|
American missionary kidnapped in Haiti
Oct 17 2006 10:34PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Kidnappers seized a U.S. missionary as he left his church in northern Haiti and are demanding a ransom for his release, U.N. officials and relatives said Tuesday.
|
|
|
Mexican fireworks factory blast kills 4
Oct 17 2006 10:33PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - An explosion Tuesday in an area packed with small fireworks factories in central Mexico left four people dead and a man with severe burns, officials said.
|
|
|
Bus crash kills 14 in western Mexico
Oct 17 2006 10:07PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Fourteen people were killed Tuesday when a passenger bus crashed into the back of a tractor trailer in western Mexico, officials said.
|
|
|
Violent protests mar reburial of Peron
Oct 17 2006 9:25PM (CT)
SAN VICENTE, Argentina (AP) - Former Argentine strongman Juan Domingo Peron was reburied in a lavish ceremony Tuesday marred by violence, as rival factions hurled rocks at one another and riot police dispersed them with rubber bullets and tear gas.
|
|
|
Police detain scores of Chilean students
Oct 17 2006 9:17PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Police on Tuesday detained more than 100 high school students who had taken over their schools in renewed protest over what they say is the government's slow progress toward reforming Chile's dictatorship-era education law.
|
|
|
Tanker ship explosion kills 8 in Mexico
Oct 17 2006 9:16PM (CT)
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico (AP) - A spark touched off an explosion aboard a gasoline tanker ship Tuesday at a Mexican port, killing eight people and injuring nine others, officials said.
|
|
|
Poll: Brazil's Silva leading election
Oct 17 2006 8:23PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was leading his conservative challenger ahead of Brazil's Oct. 29 presidential runoff vote, according to a survey released Tuesday.
|
|
|
Ecuador official denies election fraud
Oct 17 2006 8:22PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - The head of Ecuador's electoral commission on Tuesday defended his organization against allegations that the breakdown of an electronic vote-counting system in weekend balloting amounted to fraud.
|
|
|
Hostile atmosphere permeates Guantanamo
Oct 17 2006 8:17PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - A military officer probing new charges of prisoner abuse here will encounter a pervasive atmosphere of hostility and suspicion between the detainees and U.S. troops who consider themselves at war.
|
|
|
Guatemala leads but can't land U.N. seat
Oct 17 2006 8:10PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Venezuela refused to abandon its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat despite trailing Guatemala in a dozen rounds of voting Tuesday, creating a deadlock that led to new calls for a compromise candidate.
|
|
|
|
|
|