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ASSOCIATED PRESS/PHOTOS BY JOSHUA GOODMAN
BOGOTA, Colombia - It was one of the boldest initiatives yet for Latin America's emerging leftist alliance and it didn't even get off the ground.
Answering a call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, political heavyweights from five governments attempted to break through a deadlock in the region's most entrenched conflict: Colombia's But for all their devotion to Latin American unity, observers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba and Ecuador couldn't persuade the secretive Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to abandon its deep mistrust of Colombia's government and fulfill a weeks-old promise to free three hostages, including a 3-year-old boy.
The FARC, in a letter to Chavez, blamed... Read More
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME - Italy's president began slurring his words and had to interrupt a speech he was giving Monday because of sudden weakness that he blamed on a drop in blood pressure.President Giorgio Napolitano, 82, was speaking at the University of Trento when he leaned forward over the podium and then sat down as a bodyguard and officials on the stage moved in to support him... Read More
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ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD NEWS
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint manned by a group fighting against Al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 12 12 people in one of a series of strikes Monday against the largely Sunnimovement singled out by Osama bin Laden as a "disgrace and shame."
Leaders of the rapidly expanding U.S.-backed movement, credited with helping slash violence across the country by 60 percent since June, condemned bin Laden's latest... Read More
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Police, Crowds Clash in Nairobi
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Police early today clashed with opposition protesters who were determined to stage a... Read More
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Egypt Allows Gaza Group's Return
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Over Israel's objection, Egypt allowed hundreds of stranded Palestinian pilgrims en... Read More
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