By Stefan Bos Budapest 17 November 2009 Former Czech President Vaclav Havel (background center) attends a group of people lighting candles and laying flowers as they commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Czech Republic...
By Solana Pyne Marrakesh, Morocco 17 November 2009 Moroccan carpets are prized for their beauty and can fetch hundreds of dollars in stores. But little of that money ends up in the hands of the women who spend months weaving the carpets. Rug weavers...
By Mil Arcega Washington D.C. 17 November 2009 General Motors President and Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson (file photo) General Motors says it lost more than $1 billion in the third quarter, but the head of the U.S. auto giant says the comp...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 17 November 2009 One of the so-called Brad Pitt houses in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward More than four years after Hurricane Katrina struck and flood waters washed over New Orleans, the city is showing signs of significant...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 17 November 2009 General Peter Chiarelli (undated photo) The U.S. Army reported Tuesday that the number of suicides among soldiers this year has already equaled the number for all of last year, and so will rise for the fifth co...
By Meredith Buel Washington 17 November 2009 The United States says it is dismayed that Israel has authorized the construction of new housing units in occupied east Jerusalem. A Palestinian boy in the yard of his house in front of a new housing deve...
By Cindy Saine Capitol Hill 17 November 2009 Senior U.S. government officials say terrorism is an increasing concern in Africa's Sahel region. Government leaders told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States needs to...
By Gary Thomas Washington, D.C 17 November 2009 Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has been roundly criticized in the international community for presiding over a corrupt government. A new report reinforces the perception of widespread corruption in...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 November 2009 The European Union plans to train hundreds of Somali security forces and possibly expand its anti-piracy mission off Somalia's coast in an effort to bring stability to the war-torn Horn of Africa nation. The agr...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 November 2009 The European Union has followed the United States in saying it is not ready to recognize Palestinian statehood, after Palestinian leaders declared they would seek that status at the United Nations. Swedish Forei...
By Scott Stearns Dakar 17 November 2009 Aminatou Haidar talks about Western Sahara during an interview with AP in Washington (2006 file photo) Human rights officials say Morocco has expelled one of the leading independence campaigners for the disput...
By Jennifer Glasse London 17 November 2009 NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, 16 Nov 2009 The NATO secretary-general says he is confident the United States and other NATO allies will send more troops to Afghanistan, where insurgent attack...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 17 November 2009 Monsoonal floods in Bangkok, Thailand Built along the banks of the Chao Praya river as it nears the ocean, Bangkok has long been vulnerable to flooding. Poor urban planning and careless expansion have made the...
By Jennifer Glasse London 17 November 2009 Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (file photo) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday that he would like to host a summit next year to chart a timetable for the handover of security in various...
By Robert Raffaele Washington 16 November 2009 World leaders at a U.N. summit on food security in Rome are vowing to take urgent action to eliminate global hunger. But they did not agree in their final declaration to a U.N. request for $44 billion a...
