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 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:22:57 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com 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/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/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/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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1281796.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1281796.html Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT If Hillary Clinton was hoping to win Russian support for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1279565.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1279565.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Islamic militants mounted their fourth attack against a Pakistani target in a week, this time detonating a suicide car bomb in a crowded bazaar that killed 41 people in the Shangla District on the edge of the Swat valley, where the Pakistani military had said it crushed the insurgency. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1279548.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1279548.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT A member of the panel investigating the widespread allegations of fraud in Afghanistan's Aug. 20 presidential election resigned Monday and charged that United Nations officials have interfered in the probe, a possible indication that Afghan President Hamid Karzai may be forced into a runoff against his former foreign minister. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1279553.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1279553.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to press Russian leaders for ``specific forms of pressure'' against Iran if the regime fails to comply with international demands to prove its nuclear program is peaceful. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1278081.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1278081.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The bombers who attacked the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday seemed determined to make sure none of their targets survived.<p/> First, they bombed a crowded parking lot outside the provincial government's headquarters. Seven minutes later, they detonated a car bomb aimed at the rescue workers. An hour later, a third bomb exploded outside the hospital where survivors were receiving treatment. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1275646.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1275646.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Professor Noam Chomsky may be among America's most enduring anti-war activists. But the leftist intellectual's anthology of post 9/11 commentary is taboo at Guantánamo's prison camp library. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1276859.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1276859.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT As the Obama administration reconsiders its Afghanistan policy, White House officials are minimizing warnings from the intelligence community, the military and the State Department about the risks of adopting a limited strategy focused on al Qaeda, U.S. intelligence, diplomatic and military officials told McClatchy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1275408.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/1275408.html Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Like his campaign, President Barack Obama's surprising win of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday can be summed up by one word: hope.<p/> It reflects not so much a record of accomplishment -- he has yet to achieve any major foreign policy successes -- as the yearning of the five-member prize committee that Obama is changing America's course in international affairs.