A Justice Department message appears to be at odds with officials? repeated statements that no successors were selected before several U.S. attorneys were dismissed.
An American terrorism suspect jailed in Ethiopia appeared in front of a military tribunal there on Friday, but Ethiopian officials did not disclose the outcome.
Every administration aims for something close to complete control over the nation's foreign policy. The idea is that the United States, while open to debating disparate views at home, should speak clearly with one voice when it comes to dealing with other countries. But that principle is frequently challenged as lawmakers, former officials, and assorted VIPs step into the role of roving freelance diplomat–and enjoy the fruits of being actors on the global stage.
Mutobo, Rwanda—Ezekiel Nzamwita fidgets awkwardly in a ratty T-shirt and baggy jacket. The onetime primary-school teacher is still getting used to civilian garb after spending a decade in prison-issue pink jumpsuits. "Ten years is a long time," he says, "but things have become better." A confessed killer, Nzamwita is one of about 8,000 genocide suspects released in February from Rwanda's overcrowded prisons as part of a national reconciliation effort after the 1994 bloodletting that claimed a million lives. The 51-year-old Hutu admitted being part of a group that killed a Tutsi man and stole his cows. Nzamwita won his freedom after asking the victim's brother for forgiveness.
The killing was systematic. It was relentless. It was brutal. The weapon of choice was the machete and, the killers were people's neighbors and colleagues and friends. As many as 1 million Rwandans were killed in just three months during the spring of 1994.
AP - A car bomb blasted through a busy bus station near one of Iraq's holiest shrines Saturday and killed at least 56 people, police and hospital officials said.
AP - The deadline for North Korea to shut down it main nuclear reactor passed Saturday with no action taken by the communist country, leaving the top U.S. nuclear negotiator to surmise that the momentum had escaped disarmament talks.
AP - The Philippine police and military are searching for a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer missing for nearly a week in a mountainous northern area, officials said Saturday.
A car bomb blast in a crowded shopping area in central Karbala, a holy Shiite city southwest of Baghdad, killed at least 43 people and wounded 55 on Saturday morning, a hospital official said. A short time later, a car bomb exploded on the Jadriya bridge spanning the Tigris River in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, Iraqi police said.
Millions of White House e-mails may be missing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged Friday. "I wouldn't rule out that there were a potential 5 million e-mails lost," Perino said. A liberal watchdog group alleges that over a two-year period official White House e-mail traffic for hundreds of days has vanished -- in possible violation of the federal Presidential Records Act.
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