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Iran postpones American woman's release
(AP)
AP - Iran on Friday postponed the planned release of an American woman jailed along with two friends for more than a year, state media reported, dealing a blow to the hopes of three U.S. mothers who have pleaded for the trio's release.
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French lawmakers throw out retirement age at 60
(AFP)
AFP - French lawmakers on Friday approved government plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018, a key item on President Nicolas Sarkozy's agenda to overhaul the costly pension system.
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(AP)
AP - Iranian state media confirms release of jailed American woman has been postponed.
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25 killed Mexican city's deadliest day in 3 years
(AP)
AP - Mexican authorities say 25 people have been killed in a series of drug-gang shootings in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in three years for the border city.
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Castro says he was misinterpreted on Cuban economy
(AP)
AP - Fidel Castro said Friday his comments about the Cuban economic model no longer working were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist — taking back an admission that caused a stir around the globe.
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Koran burning outrage builds as Muslims mark Eid
(AFP)
AFP - Thousands of Afghans hurled rocks at a NATO military outpost Friday in a wave of Muslim anger at a US pastor's threat to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Patron of Afghan school is local warlord, U.S. ally
(McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - NOW RUZI, Afghanistan — There's only one functioning school in all of Zhari district in insurgency-plagued southern Afghanistan, and it's named for an anti-Taliban local strongman who uses his own private militia to protect it.
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Bell Canada parent to buy CTV for C$1.3 billion
(Reuters)
Reuters - BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecommunications company, will pay C$1.3 billion ($1.26 billion) for the country's biggest private broadcaster, in a bold gamble on the future of video over the Internet.
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The E.U. Tries to Stop France's Crackdown on Gypsies
(Time.com)
Time.com - After weeks of watching from the sidelines, the European Union has finally condemned France's mass expulsion of Roma migrants. But does France care?
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Foreign Businesses Say China's Regulations Shut Them Out
(Time.com)
Time.com - Foreign businesses in China are voicing growing frustration about the country's heavily regulated market -- a bureaucratic maze many say is designed deliberately to hamstring non-Chinese players to the advantage of their local competitors
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US troops brave grenade attacks in key Afghan town
(AP)
AP - Pfc. Sean Provenzano saw it whiz by out of the corner of his eye: a dark object hurled from a rooftop as he patrolled the medieval maze of alleyways in this fort-like walled village at the center of America's Afghan surge.
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Lions upset Tendulkar's Mumbai in opener
(AFP)
AFP - The Champions League Twenty20 tournament got off to a thrilling and surprise start Friday with local outfit Highveld Lions of South Africa defeating star-studded Mumbai Indians by nine runs.
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