Posted 8:39 AM 5/1/2013 by Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Syrian activists are reporting that that several rockets have fallen on a popular Damascus neighborhood.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rockets fell on the Bab Mesalla neighborhood in central Damascus. Initial information indicates (More)
Posted 3:54 AM 4/30/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian state TV says the powerful explosion that struck central Damascus has killed 13 people and wounded 70. The nature of Tuesday's blast in the central district of Marjeh was not immediately clear but rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad's (More)
Posted 6:26 AM 4/29/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's prime minister has escaped an assassination attempt today.
State media say a bomb went off near his convoy in the capital, Damascus.
A Syrian government official says the bomb was placed under a car was detonated when the prime minister's car drove by. He was not hurt.
Posted 1:21 AM 4/26/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's transport minister says the government is poised to allow Japanese carriers to resume flying the Boeing 787 once they complete repairs to problematic lithium ion batteries. Transport Minister Akihiro Ohta says in a statement on the ministry's website that (More)
Posted 3:27 AM 4/25/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) - The death toll in the collapse of a factory building in Bangladesh continues to rise a day after the tragedy.
Officials say at least 194 people are confirmed dead.
Workers say before the collapse they could see deep cracks in the building's walls and police ordered the building evacuated, but officials say more than 2,000 people were made to keep working.
Posted 9:01 AM 4/24/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) - A team of U.S. investigators is speaking with the parents of the two Boston bombing suspects in southern Russia. A U.S. Embassy official said the Americans traveled from Moscow to the predominantly Muslim province of Dagestan "because the investigation (More)