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10 dead in Malawi anti-government demonstrations - The Associated Press
Jul 21, 2011 - BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi's president lashed out at anti-government demonstrators Thursday, as two days of protests left at least 10 people dead in unprecedented levels of unrest in this southern African nation. Hospital officials and activists
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Murdoch Accused of Giving Misleading Testimony - New York Times
Jul 21, 2011 - LONDON — Two former senior executives of News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's beleaguered media empire, directly questioned on Thursday the testimony given by the head of the division, Mr. Murdoch's
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Hacking Testimony Is Disputed - Wall Street Journal
Jul 21, 2011 - Two former executives broke ranks with News Corp. for the first time on Thursday over whether James Murdoch knew in 2008 that the phone-hacking scandal at the company's now-defunct UK tabloid likely
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North and South Korea to hold informal talks - The Associated Press
Jul 21, 2011 - BALI, Indonesia (AP) — North and South Korea will hold informal talks on the sidelines of Asia's largest security forum, a senior US official said Friday. The official, speaking on condition he not be named, described it as the "first big interaction"
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Lai Changxing's Deportation to China Is Upheld in Canada - New York Times
Jul 21, 2011 - By AP VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian judge upheld the deportation on Thursday of one of China's most wanted fugitives, calling him a “common criminal.” The suspect, Lai Changxing, could be returned to China as early as Saturday,
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Phone Hacking: PM admits 'with hindsight' hiring Andy Coulson was wrong - Telegraph.co.uk
Jul 20, 2011 - David Cameron has admitted with “hindsight” he would never have hired Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, as one of his senior aides as he sought to draw a line under the hacking scandal. Mr Cameron's statement came after Rupert and
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Leopard injures 11 people in India before dying - The Associated Press
Jul 20, 2011 - KOLKATA, India (AP) — A leopard that mauled 11 people in a fierce showdown with Indian villagers has died of knife wounds after being captured. The snarling adult, male leopard leapt at locals and forest officials as they tried to drive it into a
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Food Crisis in Somalia Is a Famine, UN Says - New York Times
Jul 20, 2011 - Farhiya, center, with her seven-year-old sister Suladan, followed their mother and brothers at the Dolo Ado refugee camp near the Ethiopia-Somalia border. By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN MOMBASA, Kenya — The United Nations on Wednesday officially declared
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Sectarian Clashes Deepen Tensions in Syria - Wall Street Journal
Jul 20, 2011 - Syria's third-largest city, Homs, was locked down amid heavy gunfire on Tuesday, after clashes between Alawites and Sunnis triggered a violent response from security forces and brought sectarian tensions to a boil. Associated Press A photo from
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Lawmakers Say Pakistani Plot Did Not Influence Actions - New York Times
Jul 20, 2011 - WASHINGTON — Last summer, half a dozen lawmakers met on Capitol Hill with a group of Pakistani-Americans and foreign visitors to discuss long-stalled efforts to negotiate peace in Kashmir, the border region claimed by both Pakistan and
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Murdochs, Brooks face questioning by lawmakers - The Associated Press
Jul 19, 2011 - LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch, his son James and the media mogul's former UK newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks face a grilling from lawmakers Tuesday about the intensifying phone hacking scandal, which has spread from Murdoch's media empire to the top
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Israel tells activists it will board ship - The Associated Press
Jul 19, 2011 - JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has notified a Gaza-bound ship that it will carry out a "calm boarding" of the vessel. Israel Radio broadcast the military's warning to the ship, which is trying to breach Israel's blockade of the coastal strip.
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Libya medic: 7 rebels dead, dozens wounded in east - The Associated Press
Jul 19, 2011 - AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) — Government forces shelled rebel positions Tuesday near the strategic oil town of Brega, killing seven rebel fighters and wounding dozens, a medic said. Rebel forces have been pushing to seize the front-line town on Libya's coast
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Death of hacking whistleblower Hoare probed - AFP
Jul 19, 2011 - LONDON — In a sombre twist to Britain's phone-hacking crisis, police were investigating Tuesday the unexplained death of a whistleblower who implicated the prime minister's ex-media chief in the row. Former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare was
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Phone hacking: Sean Hoare's family say whistleblower 'will be proved right' - Telegraph.co.uk
Jul 19, 2011 - The family of a whistleblowing journalist found dead in his flat in unexplained circumstances insisted that he would be proved “right”. By John Bingham and Richard Alleyne Sean Hoare, a former showbusiness reporter, claimed that the practice of
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