BP and government officials said Wednesday that their next attempt to stop the Gulf oil spill – the so-called 'top kill' – is scheduled to start Sunday. If it doesn't work, there are few promising short-term alternatives.
Changes to social studies textbooks in Texas proposed by conservatives have resulted in a partisan uproar and generated interest far beyond the Lone Star State.
Prominent oceanographers are accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill’s true scope.
South Korea is expected to ask the United Nations to review its charge that North Korea sank one of its ships, complicating a trip to China by a delegation of senior American officials.
American and European officials said there could be a legal basis in the future for choking off financial transactions between Iran and banking centers in Europe and elsewhere.
AP - Homeland Security and Pentagon officials are at loggerheads over a plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Barack Obama is pledging to bolster security there.
AP - Greek workers held a general strike against the government's austerity measures Thursday, two weeks after the previous day of protests deteriorated into rioting in which three people died in a burning bank.
AP - South Korea accused North Korea on Thursday of firing a torpedo that sank a naval warship in March, killing 46 sailors in the country's worst military disaster since the Korean War.
The stand off in Thailand continues as pro and anti-government forces clash in the Thai capital, Bangkok. The Red Shirt military strategist Major General Khattiya Sawadispol has died, having been shot last week. The anti-government protesters are hunkered down ignoring a government deadline to disperse from their camp in downtown Bangkok.
South Korea says it has found conclusive evidence that North Korea fired a torpedo at one of its warships in March, killing 46 sailors.Officials in Seoul and Washington told ABC News that the South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak is preparing an official statement for early next week that will officially blame the North and lead to which will ratchet up tensions in the region. Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan confirmed the findings, Wednesday, saying it was 'obvious' that the North Koreans sank the vessel. Until now, South Korea had been extremely careful in choosing its words, never directly blaming the North without substantial evidence. Pyongyang has repeatedly denied any involvement.
North Korea denied Thursday that it fired a torpedo that sank a South Korean warship in March. But S. Korea vowed to take "resolute countermeasures" nevertheless.
U.S. Defense Department officials have identified five U.S. soldiers, including a colonel and two lieutenant colonels, killed by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan's capital this week.
Pakistan on Thursday blocked access to YouTube -- a day after it shut down social networking site Facebook -- in response to an online group calling on people to draw the Prophet Mohammed.
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