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Basque separatists ETA announce cease fire

Members of the Basque Separatist militant group ETA gesture as they make a video statement announcing a cease fire.The militant Basque separatist group ETA has issued a video declaring a cease fire, the BBC reported Sunday.


Alive survivors to Chilean mining kin: Be strong

Gustavo Zerbino, Uruguayan survivor of a 1972's plane crash in the Chilean Andes, right, embraces Maria Segovia, sister of trapped miner Dario Segovia at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday.Uruguayans who survived more than 2 months of isolation in the Andes after a plane crash met Saturday with some of the relatives of 33 trapped miners and urged them to stay strong.


Vatican says stoning in Iran adultery case brutal

A banner in support of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is hung outside the Equal Opportunities Ministry palace in Rome on Sept. 1. Italy's Equal Opportunities Ministry on Wednesday expressed solidarity with the Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, unfurling a large banner bearing her face outside its building in Rome. The banner reads, "For the life of Sakineh." The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to spare the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.


Report: Iran pays $1,000 for each dead U.S. soldier
Iran is paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier they kill in Afghanistan, according to a report Sunday in a British newspaper.

12 die in Baghdad car bomb, gunfight
Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed 12 people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security.

Guatemala mudslides kill at least 28; 2 buses hit

People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide caused by heavy rains on the Pan-American highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, on Saturday. Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 28 people in Guatemala — most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.


Accident at German flight show kills 1
Police say the pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators, leaving one person dead and several injured.

Mideast talks to resume in Egyptian Red Sea resort
The second round of direct peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians will take place in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on September 14-15, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

Kosovo: Thousands gather for cathedrals opening

Several thousand people gather to mark the opening of a Roman Catholic cathedral named after Mother Teresa in Pristina, Kosovo.Several thousand people gathered in Kosovo’s capital Sunday to mark the opening of a Roman Catholic cathedral named after Mother Teresa.


Expert warns of complacency after swine flu fizzle

Robert Webster, chairman of the Department of Virology and Molecular Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., attends the Options for the Control of Influenza conference in Hong Kong Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Hong Kong. Webster urged health authorities around the world to stay vigilant even though the recent swine flu pandemic was less deadlier than expected, warning that bird flu could spark the next global outbreak. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)A leading virus expert urged health authorities around the world Sunday to stay vigilant even though the recent swine flu pandemic was less deadly than expected, warning that bird flu could spark the next global outbreak.


Israel unlikely to extend current settlement curbs

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza tunnels, killing two Palestinians and wounding a third, Hamas security officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool)Israel’s defense minister says a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction is unlikely to continue in its current form after it expires at the end of this month.


At least 43 killed in violence in Sudans Darfur
Clashes in a refugee camp in Sudan’s restive Darfur region left six people dead, U.N.-African Union peacekeepers said Saturday, days after violence elsewhere in the area claimed the lives of at least 37 people dead.

Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead
As many as 200 people are feared dead after a heavily loaded boat caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, a survivor said Sunday, in the deadliest documented boat capsize in the Central African nation this year.

New Zealand quake rips new fault in earth

Before-and-after images of damaged buildings on Victoria Street in Christchurch, New Zealand.The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around Christchurch, New Zealand, also ripped an 11-foot wide fault line in earth surface.


Sources: 5 killed in attack on Russian base

A car burns Saturday in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, after a car bomb wounded a senior Russian official and killed his driver.At least five people were killed and 35 wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked troops at a firing range in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, sources said.


Thieves add to Pakistan flood victims misery
Crime and the sale of donated aid supplies are undermining the aid effort for Pakistan’s flood victims.

Gaza rocket fire draws Israeli air strikes
Two days after the restart of peace talks, Israeli aircraft strike targets in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fire a rocket into Israel.

Tourists killed in New Zealand plane crash

Nine people, including four foreign tourists, were killed when the skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames, officials said. Nine people were killed after a light aircraft used for skydiving crashed in New Zealand’s South Island, police said Saturday.


‘We were all screaming — we got the animals and ran’
Wen Baragrey, a writer who lives by the sea in Christchurch, New Zealand, shares her chaotic escape from her swaying home during the early morning earthquake that struck.