As many as 100 people may have been buried in a landslide in Guatemala on a major highway, a spokesman for the fire department said on Sunday. Approximately 100 people were attempting to dig a bus out of a first mudslide when a second engulfed the scene, said fire department spokesman Sergio Vasquez. At least [...]
ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines says a 57-year-old passenger was found dead aboard a flight from Lagos, Nigeria, to Atlanta. Atlanta police spokesman Otis Redmond says foul play is not suspected in the woman’s death. Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead says the woman’s body was taken to a crime lab for an autopsy. [...]
United State Senators Feingold and Leahy have introduced a new legislation titled, Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Ethiopia Act of 2010. Read text of the bill below or click here: To reaffirm United States objectives in Ethiopia and encourage critical democratic and humanitarian principles and practices, and for other purposes. Be it enacted [...]
Former President Jimmy Carter is leaving North Korea Friday with a U.S. citizen who was imprisoned in the communist country after entering it illegally in January, according to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Aijalon Mahli Gomes was imprisoned in January of this year and later sentenced to eight years of hard labor with a [...]
The recent financial crisis and recession have been a worldwide occurrence. The events in the United States since 2008 have garnered most of the headlines because the U. S. has the world’s largest economy and national debt, but the reality is that many countries in Europe are in worse financial shape and continue to deteriorate. [...]
An aunt of President Barack Obama was allowed to stay in the United States on the shocking grounds that she would be persecuted by Kenyan leaders if she was forced to return to the country. And on Wednesday, the government reacted angrily to the US Immigration court’s apparent endorsement of claims by Ms Zeituni Onyango [...]
As I stood at the planned site of the mosque near Ground Zero Saturday morning, I remembered nights laughing at a big round table in Zinno’s restaurant, a newspaper guy with five friends from the Fire Department, the finest, bravest and most fun people I ever knew. I could see them all, intensely alive in the [...]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says bilateral ties with the United States are on the mend after months of tensions. Mr. Meles promised a wholesale government reshuffle due in October will include a restructuring of Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions. The Ethiopian leader told reporters Wednesday that what he called ‘a rough stretch’ in relations with Washington [...]
Obama tells Atlanta supporters very funny, but also very true stories. …President Obama headed to the Atlanta fundraiser For those that did not hear Obama´s verbal shot aimed at the past administration, they missed a good example of a very funny stand-up routine, and the telling of truthful stories in a way that virtually anyone [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya — It was the gift that no one wanted: three dirty looking pebbles, presumed to be uncut blood diamonds from then-Liberian President Charles Taylor. Thirteen years ago the stones were given to supermodel Naomi Campbell, who tried to donate them to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. The fund didn’t want them either. Campbell [...]
