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Pakistan's Musharraf Charged in Bhutto Killing

Pakistan's Musharraf Charged in Bhutto Killing


Pakistan's Musharraf Charged in Bhutto Killing

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:34 AM PDT

A Pakistani court has indicted Pervez Musharraf, the former president and army chief, in the 2007 assassination of a former prime minister.
    






Britons Question Whether Detention of Reporter’s Partner was Terror-Related

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 12:01 AM PDT

David Michael Miranda — the partner of Glenn Greenwald, who has written about surveillance programs based on leaks by Edward J. Snowden — said Monday that British authorities had seized his laptop and cellphone.
    






Fukushima Plant Has Worst Leak Yet From Storage Tank

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:28 PM PDT

The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant said Tuesday that about 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks there.
    

Over 100 Rescued After Boat Sinks in Indian Ocean

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 09:37 PM PDT

A boat carrying around 100 suspected asylum seekers sunk in the Indian Ocean, and Australian officials are hurrying to rescue passengers from the water.
    






Saudi Arabia Promises to Aid Egypt’s Regime

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 06:29 PM PDT

As Europeans and the United States considered cutting cash aid to Egypt, Saudi Arabia said that it and its allies would make up any reduction and vowed continued support.
    






Egypt in Tumult as Court Orders Mubarak Freed

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 06:05 PM PDT

The order for former President Hosni Mubarak's release provided another sign of the return of his authoritarian style of government and came as state forces arrested the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader.
    






Fallen Chinese Official’s Son Is ‘Denied Contact’ With Parents

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 06:04 PM PDT

Bo Guagua made a rare public statement on the eve of the corruption trial of his father, Bo Xilai, in which he expressed concerns for his imprisoned mother.
    

Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 06:02 PM PDT

The panel found that human activity is almost certainly behind most temperature increases in recent decades.
    

As a Boom Slows, Peru Grows Uneasy

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 05:57 PM PDT

In a nation used to 6 percent annual expansion, something closer to 5 percent, which would be a reason for celebration elsewhere, is producing angst.
    

Berlin Journal: Uncertainty Over a Palace of Parking

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 05:39 PM PDT

In a country with 1.3 million recognized memorials, historically protected buildings and sites, the preservation of a sooty parking garage covered with graffiti is a tough sell.
    

Prime Minister of Pakistan Open to Talks With Taliban

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:23 PM PDT

In his first televised policy speech since taking office, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also maintained the option of military action against militants.
    






Rome’s Start to Architectural Hubris

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:59 PM PDT

In excavations outside Rome, at the site of the city-state Gabii, archaeologists think they are catching a glimpse of Roman tastes in monumental architecture 300 years before the Colosseum.
    






Letter From Paris: In Southern France, a Taste for Bull Meat

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:29 PM PDT

In Southern France, bulls are championed both in the arena and on the plate.
    

Observatory: 160-Million-Year-Old Fossil of an Omnivore

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:19 PM PDT

The fossil, found in China, was of a fast-running, agile omnivore that resembles the modern-day African dormouse.
    






Britons Question Whether Detention of Reporter’s Partner Was Terror-Related

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:58 PM PDT

David Michael Miranda — the partner of Glenn Greenwald, who has written about surveillance programs based on leaks by Edward J. Snowden — said Monday that British authorities had seized his laptop and cellphone.
    






4 Officials Convicted of Negligence Over Russia Flooding

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:57 PM PDT

The officials failed to alert residents amid a deluge of rain last summer that left more than 170 people dead, a judge found.
    

European Union Sets Emergency Session on Suspending Aid to Egypt

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:24 PM PDT

The Europeans have struggled to negotiate a political solution in the continuing military crackdown.
    






Crowdsourcing, for the Birds

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:06 PM PDT

The online network eBird uses data turned in by tens of thousands of citizen scientists to create what may be the first real-time view of the world's bird populations.
    

Cemetery Left in Peace in City Remade by Olympics

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Russia's ambitious vision for the 2014 Olympics is being built around the perimeter of a century-old cemetery.
    






Observatory: Software That Exposes Faked Photos

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:25 PM PDT

Using algorithms to detect suspicious shadows, computer scientists say their software can sniff out doctored images.
    






China Takes Aim at Western Ideas

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:07 PM PDT

A document released to Communist Party cadres enumerated what it called subversive social currents, including Western-inspired notions of human rights, that must be fought.
    






Europe Pledges To Send Team Of Inspectors To Gibraltar

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

The commission said it would send inspectors, and it warned Spain not to start charging people for crossing into the British territory.
    






Privatization Chief Quits After Another Misstep in Sales of Greek Assets

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:27 AM PDT

A vacation ride on the private jet of an oil magnate leads to an ouster, but the government in Athens insists that large sell-offs are still on track.
    

Q&A: The Wild Past of Domestic Cats

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:20 AM PDT

Domestic cats' genetic profiles resemble those of the Near Eastern wildcat, and researchers theorize that domestication occurred in a region where there was a need for rodent control.
    

Gulf Spill Sampling Questioned

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 10:53 AM PDT

Researchers found a higher level of contamination than federal agencies did in water, sediment and seafood samples taken in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
    

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