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ElBaradei joins protesters in Cairo clash with police

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:11 PM PST

A Cairo street erupts, as thousands of protesters, hurling stones and shoes, clash with police. Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, drenched, his eyes stinging, is hurried by friends into a mosque.

Mohamed ElBaradei knelt in prayer, then rose and stepped toward a line of riot police.

Obama pushes Mubarak to fulfill reform pledge

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 07:30 PM PST

President Obama, describing a 30-minute telephone talk he had with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak shortly after Mubarak's televised address, says protesters' 'grievances have built up over time.'

President Obama prodded besieged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to "take concrete steps and actions that deliver" on reforms that Mubarak promised in an early Saturday morning speech to Egyptians, suggesting that continued American support for his regime will depend on immediate action.

South Africa relieved as Mandela hospitalization ends

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 07:46 PM PST

South Africans heave a sigh of relief after their beloved 92-year-old former president Nelson Mandela is discharged from a hospital and returned home after being treated for a respiratory infection.

South Africans heaved a sigh of relief after their beloved 92-year-old former president Nelson Mandela was discharged Friday from a hospital and returned home after being treated for a respiratory infection.

Defiant Mubarak promises change, urges end to protests

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:38 PM PST

President Hosni Mubarak addresses the nation, defending the brutal crackdown on protests but vowing to change his Cabinet and enact reforms. Protests continue across Egypt despite a curfew.

Saying he remains devoted to protecting Egypt, a defiant President Hosni Mubarak vowed to change his Cabinet to help bring social, economic and political reforms to the country, but defended his security forces' crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Mubarak promises reform, but defends crackdown on protesters

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 08:44 AM PST

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak dismisses his Cabinet and addresses the nation, defending the crackdown and urging calm. His speech comes after a day of intense protests that drew thousands to the streets of Cairo.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak dismissed his government but gave no sign in a defiant national television address early Saturday that he would be driven from office by widespread protests that have shaken his security forces, killed at least 25 people and left spirals of smoke across the capital.

Suicide bombing at Afghan supermarket kills 8

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 08:44 AM PST

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the supermarket attack in the Afghanistan capital, saying it was aimed at foreigners, in particular the head of the North Carolina-based security firm Xe Services.

In a grim demonstration of insurgents' ability to strike even in tightly guarded districts, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a supermarket in a wealthy enclave of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing at least eight people, including three foreign women and a child, and injuring more than a dozen others, police said.

U.S. Consulate staffer faces murder charges in Pakistan

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 07:40 AM PST

Pakistani authorities arrest a U.S. Consulate employee in Lahore who shot and killed two men he says he thought were going to rob him. The incident sets off several anti-U.S. protests.

Pakistani authorities in Lahore have arrested a U.S. Consulate employee who shot and killed two men he said he thought were going to rob him. Authorities said they will pursue murder charges against him in a case likely to inflame anti-U.S. sentiments in the nuclear-armed state.

South Africans relieved as Mandela heads home

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:09 AM PST

Doctors say the beloved former president, 92, suffered an acute respiratory infection but is recovering well. His hospital stay had stirred rumors of his death.

South Africans heaved a sigh of relief after their beloved former president, Nelson Mandela, 92, was discharged from a hospital and returned home Friday.

Blast at Kabul supermarket kills 8

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:40 AM PST

The explosion, the most serious in months in the Afghan capital, is apparently the work of a suicide bomber.

A powerful blast tore through a supermarket popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital Friday, and police said at least eight people were killed and a dozen hurt.

Medvedev signs New START ratification

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:16 AM PST

The nuclear-arms reduction pact will take effect when the documents are exchanged by the Russian foreign minister and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed the ratification of a nuclear arms cut pact with the United States.

For Korean American family, an ache 37 years long

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:08 AM PST

Steve Inman of Fontana always wondered what had happened to his older sister Sally, born in South Korea and missing for 37 years. Finally, Facebook brought them together.

One night in August, after his wife and 2-month-old boy had long fallen to sleep, Steve Inman got to thinking about family and heredity. With a rare moment to himself, he pulled a box of photo albums out of the hall closet at his home in Fontana.

Nelson Mandela, 92, remains hospitalized; rumors swirl in South Africa

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 08:50 PM PST

The former South African president was hospitalized for what were said to be routine tests. There was no announcement explaining his longer stay, fueling rumors that he had died.

For the second time in a few weeks, rumors swept South Africa on Thursday that Nelson Mandela, the country's beloved former president, had died.