http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com World 60 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:04:55 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138978.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138978.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The first female president of Lithuania took office Sunday, promising to use her financial experience to help the Baltic state tackle one of the worst economic crises in the European Union. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138985.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138985.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from the country's opium poppy region, officials said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138979.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138979.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT A car bomb exploded near a church as worshippers left Sunday Mass, killing at least four civilians and injuring 18 in one of several attacks on Iraq's beleaguered Christian minority. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138977.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138977.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Sitting next to her younger brother's white casket on the back of a pickup truck, an angry Rebeca Murillo screamed at soldiers guarding the city's international airport as the hearse drove past the deadly site. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138983.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138983.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- Incense was lit and paper money burned at the funeral Sunday for a Han Chinese family -- a man, his wife and his parents, all killed in last week's ethnic riots. Three Uighur neighbors approached, standing tentatively apart. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138033.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138033.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil spends his days going from one high-level official meeting to another with the swagger of a tribal elder, advocating for the needs of Kunar province, his home region. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138043.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, the man who is seeking to resolve the Honduran crisis in his living room, is a 67-year-old economist and lawyer by training with salt-and-pepper hair, and the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138025.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138025.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- The deaths of eight British soldiers in Afghanistan within 24 hours triggered a debate in Britain on Saturday that could undercut public support for the war just as the U.S. is ramping up its own participation in the conflict. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138034.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138034.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT From taxi drivers to politicians, Ghanaians reveled Saturday in the first visit of an African-American president to sub-Saharan Africa. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138045.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138045.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- Muslim militants in the Philippines released an ailing Italian Red Cross worker Sunday from six months of jungle captivity, officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138030.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138030.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- The global economic crisis can be an opportunity for positive social change, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said Saturday during a speech honoring former South African President Nelson Mandela. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138041.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1138041.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Ultra-Orthodox Jews threw themselves under the wheels of an idling bus and in front of waiting cars to protest the opening of a parking lot on the Jewish Sabbath -- an act they consider an abomination. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1137258.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1137258.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:07 EDT America's president and Africa's son, Barack Obama dashed with pride onto the continent of his ancestors Saturday, challenging its people to shed corruption and conflict in favor of peace. Campaigning to all of Africa, he said "Yes you can." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136932.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136932.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The petite Muslim woman with the sky-blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday -- the most important day of the week for Islamic worship. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136928.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136928.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested there for the second time in two years, the State Department and the man's family said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136933.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136933.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike hit a Taliban communication center in the country's northwest late Friday, killing at least three people and wounding three more, intelligence officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136930.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136930.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT President Barack Obama isn't descended from slaves; his father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas. However, his visit to Ghana, where slaves once were captured and shipped to America, could be an emotional trek, particularly for first lady Michelle Obama, who like many is a descendant of slaves and doesn't know for sure where her ancestors are from. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136937.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1136937.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1131913.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1131913.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT President Barack Obama laid out a vision of greater cooperation between the United States and Russia on Tuesday in a speech that also contained thinly veiled criticism of the Kremlin's authoritarian style of rule. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1131908.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1131908.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT U.S. Marines trapped Taliban fighters in a residential compound and persuaded the insurgents to allow women and children to leave. The troops then moved in -- only to discover that the militants had slipped out, dressed in women's burqa robes.