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 2008 MiamiHerald.com World 60 Mon, 12 May 2008 21:10:43 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530550.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530550.html Mon, 12 May 2008 21:04 EDT Haitian legislators on Monday rejected President Rene Preval's pick for prime minister, extending a monthlong period without a functioning government for the troubled nation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/529712.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/529712.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:44 EDT Irena Sendler - credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets - died Monday, her family said. She was 98. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/529760.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/529760.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:34 EDT Fighting between pro- and anti-government factions jumped to Lebanon's north Monday, but a grim calm hung over the nearly empty streets of Beirut - a capital crippled by roadblocks, suspicion and fear. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530567.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:33 EDT An attempt to reach Florida turned into 17 days at sea for Cuban migrants crammed aboard a rickety sailboat that drifted ashore in Mexico near the Belize border. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/529677.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/529677.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:19 EDT A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing nearly 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530540.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530540.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:43 EDT As of Monday, May 12, 2008, at least 4,076 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530542.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:43 EDT As of Monday, May 12, 2008, at least 427 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 3 at 10 a.m. EDT. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530099.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530099.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:39 EDT Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Myanmar's military junta Monday for what he called its "unacceptably slow response" to helping cyclone victims. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530474.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530474.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:24 EDT Darfur's most-wanted rebel leader vowed Monday to keep up his offensive against the Sudanese government, saying he can exhaust the military by fighting it all across Africa's largest nation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530520.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/530520.html Mon, 12 May 2008 19:03 EDT Chad closed its border with Sudan on Monday and put a halt to bilateral trade, a minister said, a day after Sudan severed diplomatic ties with Chad. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/530226.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/530226.html Mon, 12 May 2008 17:15 EDT As the death toll in earthquake-ravaged areas of China soared past 9,000 on Monday, members of South Florida's Chinese and Chinese-American community reached out to relatives abroad and began talk of preparing aid for the victims. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528163.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528163.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT When Ali Ateya was killed last month at the age of 23 -- a victim of an American airstrike on a block of concrete tenements in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, according to his family -- there was no money for his burial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528816.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528816.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528821.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528821.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT Serbians head to the polls Sunday for crucial parliamentary elections, still bitterly divided between nationalist anger and tentative optimism about a European future. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528175.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528175.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT To see the lingering effects of Kenya's recent post-election violence, combined with the worldwide increase in food prices, look no further than the size of the lunches served at Fatma Abdallah's neighborhood restaurant in Nairobi's sprawling Majengo slum. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528176.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528176.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT There's a place in this city, amid the snarled checkpoints and mazes of blast walls and general anxiety, where families still gather for picnics, teenage boys kick around soccer balls, young couples canoodle furtively under trees and children bury their faces in cotton candy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528174.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528174.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT Trust me, it's not easy sharing a suspended cable bridge over a Himalayan gorge with a yak caravan. The bridge undulates and bucks, and one tends to freeze up and grasp the cable handrail. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528021.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528021.html Sat, 10 May 2008 03:01 EDT It's rare that a physician would single-handedly play a crucial role in resolving two big health crises in China, saving untold scores of children's lives. But that's precisely the case with Dr. Liu Xiaolin. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528020.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/528020.html Sat, 10 May 2008 03:01 EDT Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces enter all of Baghdad's Sadr City and arrest anyone found with heavy weapons, a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/526610.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/526610.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Iraqi security forces, after more than 40 days of intense fighting, on Thursday told residents to evacuate their homes in the northeast Shiite slum of Sadr City and to move to temporary shelters on two soccer fields.