ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Andrew Fahie, the 1st district representative and Minister for Education and Culture, stated the Virgin Islands (VI) has “to do a lot of healing” after the 2011 General Elections, due to character assassinations and other ploys used by politicians to get their messages across to voters.
RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A government official says 40 people have been killed in a mosque bombing in northwest Pakistan, with 85 wounded.
JULIE PACE,Associated Press
DEAUVILLE, France (AP) — President Barack Obama prepared to press allies from the Group of Eight industrial nations for commitments in the Middle East and North Africa during two days of meetings in France that were getting under way Thursday.
AHMED AL-HAJ,Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s government said 28 people were killed in an explosion at a weapons storage site Thursday, but the opposition claimed military forces shelled a building used by tribal fighters who have risen up against embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(BBC NEWS)-A few weeks ago, the BBC broke news of the consternation aroused by Sir Richard Branson’s plans to bring lemurs to his Caribbean islands.
MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press
MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — A major international mission to investigate Japan’s flooded, radiation-leaking nuclear complex began as new information suggested that nuclear fuel had mostly melted in two more reactors in the early days after the March 11 tsunami.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European air traffic agency says up to 500 commercial flights in Northern Ireland, Scotland and parts of Scandinavia may be canceled Tuesday because of the spread of volcanic ash.
MOHAMMAD FAROOQ,Associated Press
MUNIR AHMED,Associated Press
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A police account released Tuesday on the brazen, 18-hour Taliban assault on a Pakistani naval base says there were twice as many attackers as the number claimed by the government and navy, adding to the questions surrounding the deadly incident.
ANGELA CHARLTON,Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Anne Sinclair is sacrificing millions of her family’s fortune on her husband’s bail and house arrest. Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared his love for his wife in a public letter, and blew her a kiss across a New York courtroom where he was charged with trying to rape a hotel maid.
JULIE PACE, Associated Press
DUBLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama opened a six-day European tour Monday in Ireland, where he planned to celebrate his own Irish roots and give a boost to a nation grappling with the fallout from its financial collapse.
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