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, 23 Nov 2009 01:07:17 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1347237.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1347237.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1341027.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1341027.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Iran brushes aside U.N. nuclear-swap deal<p/> TEHRAN -- Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday said his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, brushing aside the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from potentially building nuclear weapons. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1332775.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1332775.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Confessed mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters will face a federal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday in an announcement that left intact the war court at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1331453.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1331453.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:52 EST In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan, to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, to potential key witness against Guantánamo Bay detainees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1330897.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1330897.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship with seven neighborhoods, a leafy Central Park, and a retractable smokestack to duck under bridges built for lesser vessels -- will make a splash when it arrives with a flotilla at its home port of Port Everglades Friday morning. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1326452.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1326452.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:24 EST A United Airlines pilot who failed a breath test shortly before he was due to take off has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1325242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1325242.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:46 EST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians and pledged more steps to improve economic conditions in Palestinian areas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1323696.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1323696.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST After nearly a dozen delays and a final, rowdy session, Iraq's parliament on Sunday passed a law setting national elections for January, averting for now a political crisis that threatened to unravel the country's slow progress toward stability. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1310353.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1310353.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Authorities have arrested eight people, including one in Saudi Arabia, in connection with last week's deadly attack on a guest house used by United Nations employees, the Afghan intelligence chief said Saturday. He said those arrested claimed the assailants came from Pakistan's Swat Valley. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1305763.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1305763.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Up against the clock, Iraqi politicians spent Wednesday hammering out the final sticking points of an election law they hope to present to parliament for a vote within days to avoid a risky and embarrassing delay of the January polls. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1303684.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1303684.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Militants linked to al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for a pair of powerful truck bombs that killed 155 people and wounded 600 in the latest insurgent assault on the fragile Iraqi government. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1298876.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1298876.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Pakistani forces Saturday captured the hometown of the chief of the country's Taliban movement, officials announced, the first big gain in the weeklong ground offensive in South Waziristan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1297629.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1297629.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Pakistan AMX103.JPG <p/> <p/> ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber attacked a suspected nuclear weapons site Friday in Pakistan, raising fears about the security of the nuclear arsenal, while two other terrorist blasts made it another bloody day in the country's struggle against extremism. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1294110.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1294110.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT (AP) -- A jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of two people accused of trying to blackmail John Travolta following the death of the actor's son in the Bahamas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1294119.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1294119.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT After three days of long sessions and continuous delays, the Iraqi parliament failed Wednesday to reach agreement on a new election law, asked a little-used national political council to resolve the impasse and adjourned until Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1292289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1292289.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT 4-6 lines<p/>Pakistan ANJ106.JPG <p/> DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban guerrillas recaptured the birthplace of the Pakistani Taliban leader from the Pakistani army Tuesday, inflicting the heaviest military losses so far in Pakistan's high-stakes offensive in South Waziristan, a refuge for Pakistani extremists, Afghan insurgents and al Qaeda. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1292295.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1292295.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to weigh whether a federal judge has the power to release Guantánamo Bay prisoners into the United States continues a legal tug of war begun when the Bush administration opened the overseas detention camp. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1290604.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1290604.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Afghan President Hamid Karzai was expected to announce Tuesday his acceptance of a U.N.-backed fraud audit reducing his vote in the August election to less than 50 percent, but it wasn't clear if he would consent to a deal with his chief rival to forge a national unity government and forgo a second-round runoff, U.S. officials said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1288045.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1288045.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The United States and other powers struggled Saturday to persuade Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept a deal to resolve the dispute over the country's tainted presidential election and avert a political crisis that could spark civil unrest and jeopardize the U.S.-led fight against the Taliban-led insurgency. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1283502.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1283502.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Eight people were killed and 14 were injured Wednesday in attacks on Baghdad's Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Shula, police said.<p/> The violence started around noon when three mortar rounds hit the Jawadin marketplace in the center of Shula, wounding five civilians. Minutes later, gunmen attacked three goldsmiths, killing the store owners and five other people and robbing the stores. As they left, the gunmen threw grenades that injured nine more people.