KARACHI, Pakistan – A jail official says the scheduled execution of a Pakistani death-row prisoner whose family says was 14 years old when he was convicted has been stayed for a fourth time. Liaquat Khoso said early Tuesday that the order to stay Shafqat Hussain’s execution was received just hours …
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JOHANNESBURG – Trackers on foot and helicopter are searching for a lion, five days after it escaped from a national park in a remote, arid region of South Africa. South African National Parks said in a statement that after a farmer reported that he’d found lion tracks on his land, …
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana’s government says it plans to formally ask the United Nations to intervene and help resolve an escalating border dispute with neighboring Venezuela. Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge said in a statement Saturday that it is time for what he called a “judicial settlement.” Venezuela has long claimed …
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ROSEAU, Dominica – A Caribbean appeals court on Monday dismissed an attempt to become a lawyer by one of 17 men convicted of murder in a bloody 1983 coup in Grenada that triggered a U.S. invasion. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court rejected the appeal by former army officer Ewart Layne, …
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican officials say a mob of adults descended on a high school hurling rocks and setting a minibus on fire a day after one of its students allegedly killed a classmate away from the campus. Police rushed to Maldon High School in St. James parish to chase …
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The 2009 Copenhagen climate summit may have failed, but its objectives, and the United Nations’ determination to realize them, are very much alive. Global airline carbon taxes, taxes on shipping, sweeping changes in land use, and an even bigger squeeze on world-wide greenhouse emissions—including tougher U.S. emissions limits and enforcement …
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DAVOS, Switzerland – Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former head of general intelligence, was on a panel to assess the whole concept of globalization at the World Economic Forum here, but we sat down with him to talk very specifically about his region. “Two hundred dollars a barrel oil is …
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PARIS – French judicial officials have named three investigating judges who specialize in financial, public health and organized crime cases to lead a criminal probe of the Germanwings plane crash that killed 150 people. Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin disclosed the names of the three judges Friday, two days after announcing …
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ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s coast guard says it rescued more than 1,000 migrants from the eastern Aegean Sea between Friday morning and Monday morning. The coast guard said it had rescued 1,161 people in 37 search-and-rescue operations off the islands of Samothraki, Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Agathonisi and Farmakonisi. Greece is …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch retailer Royal Ahold NV, operator of U.S. supermarket chains Stop & Shop and Giant, has agreed to merge with its Belgian counterpart Delhaize Group, in a deal that creates a company that will serve more than 50 million customers a week across the Atlantic. The …
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