http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com World AP 60 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:33:06 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335073.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335073.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:01 EST NATO says two rockets were fired at the military part of Kabul's international airport, but did not cause any injuries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335060.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335060.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:42 EST Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335043.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:17 EST Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335041.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335041.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:06 EST President Barack Obama kicks off his visit to China with a town-hall meeting Monday in Shanghai, a rare chance for the Chinese people - university students in the audience and people of all ages who sent questions via the Internet - to communicate directly with a Western leader. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335019.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335019.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:57 EST French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy to North Korea said Sunday that he had long talks with officials there about sensitive issues including nuclear proliferation and human rights. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335001.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1335001.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:36 EST Militants staged a pair of attacks against anti-Taliban figures in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing one of the men as part of an escalating campaign to weaken the country's resolve to fight Islamic extremism. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334944.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334944.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:02 EST An Iranian former deputy defense minister who has been missing for nearly three years was abducted by Israeli agents and is now being held in Israel, several Iranian news Web sites reported Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334931.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334931.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:42 EST It's Saturday night at the Alwiyah Club, and 21-year-old Sarah al-Kimackchy is doing the hip thing - playing bingo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334927.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334927.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:36 EST Authorities have identified a 27-year-old German convert to Islam as an al-Qaida associate suspected of traveling to Afghanistan and planning to attack German targets. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334914.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:36 EST Hundreds of French and Afghan troops on Sunday pushed into a hostile valley in eastern Afghanistan where militants launch quick attacks, then disappear into hillside villages. The mission: secure the area for a planned bypass road around the Afghan capital to move supplies from neighboring Pakistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334907.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334907.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:36 EST Iran's first lady made rare public appearance and even more rare, a speech, at a Rome forum on the eve of a U.N. summit to fight hunger beginning Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334895.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:22 EST Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334860.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334860.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:37 EST Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month - which would mark the symbolic culmination of the decades-old project - have stalled amid a worsening drought and reports of increased landslide risks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334859.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334859.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:37 EST A British think tank said Sunday that prison policies are failing to stop Muslim inmates being radicalized, and urged the government to set up a special center to "deprogram" extremists. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334777.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334777.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:01 EST A Jordanian citizen died after being beaten by police, the second time this week, a police spokesman said Sunday, casting a rare spotlight on the nation's U.S.-trained security forces, that may also have worked as proxy jailers for the CIA. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334761.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334761.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:42 EST Japan's foreign minister pressed Sunday for a quick resolution of a dispute over the relocation of a key U.S. Marine base, but also said he would consider options previously rejected by Washington, which could draw out negotiations. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334755.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334755.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:42 EST Kosovo's first elections since independence from Serbia ended peacefully Sunday, with some minority Serbs ignoring a call to boycott and casting ballots alongside ethnic Albanians. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334746.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:01 EST As many as 150,000 poor British children were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, often taken from struggling families under programs intended to provide them with a new start - and the Empire with a supply of sturdy white workers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334725.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334725.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:17 EST North Korea briefly activated radar for its surface-to-ship missiles Sunday, forcing South Korean naval vessels to move away from a disputed western sea border where the two countries' navies clashed last week, news reports said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334668.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1334668.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:41 EST Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle, who called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism, died Sunday. He was 95.