Archive for November 10th, 2009

Brazil, US urge talks in Venezuela, Colombia spat (AP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

AP – Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a possible war with his neighbor.

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Police arrest suspected drunk pilot at Heathrow (AFP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

A commercial airliner prepares to land at London's Heathrow airport. Police arrested a United Airlines pilot on suspicion of being drunk as he was about to help fly a passenger plane from London's Heathrow Airport, an officer and the airline said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP – Police arrested a United Airlines pilot on suspicion of being drunk as he was about to help fly a passenger plane from London’s Heathrow Airport, an officer and the airline said Tuesday.

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Briton jailed for racist murder of Indian student (AFP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

AFP – An unemployed Briton was jailed for life Tuesday for the racist murder of an Indian naval officer whose throat was slashed with a knife as he walked to a restaurant.

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Anger over Afghan war as 6 UK war dead mourned (AP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

People wearing t-shirts bearing an image of Guardsman Jimmy Major react as the coffin of Major and five other British soldiers are driven through Wootton Bassett, England, after being repatriated at RAF Lyneham, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Hundreds gathered in this small English market town Tuesday to pay tribute to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan, five of whom were shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP – Grieving over the death of her son in Afghanistan, the woman tore into British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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UA pilot charged with being over alcohol limit (AP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

AP – British police have charged a United Airlines pilot with being over the alcohol limit while on the job at London’s Heathrow Airport.

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Gunmen attack AA meeting in Mexico, killing 1 (AP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera gestures during Mass at the metropolitan cathedral in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Roman Catholic clergy, increasingly caught in the middle of Mexico's drug war, are drafting a strategy this week to cope with the violence, aided by advice from colleagues who have faced similar threats in Colombia and Italy. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP – Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four, authorities said Tuesday.

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US diplomat in Honduras trying to revive pact (AP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, right, walks in front of U.S Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens, before a meeting at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. The head of Honduras' Congress said Monday there is no guarantee lawmakers will vote on whether to restore Zelaya before the Nov. 29 election that will choose his successor. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP – A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between Honduras’ deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month.

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Floods, landslides kill 144 in El Salvador (AFP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

A man stands on a buried bridge on the shore of the Ilopango lake in the Dolores Apulo village in Ilopango, a southern suburb of San Salvador. Rescue workers in El Salvador on Tuesday tried to reach dozens of towns cut off by torrents of mud and debris unleashed by devastating late-season storms that killed at least 144 people.(AFP/Jose Cabezas)AFP – Rescue workers in El Salvador on Tuesday tried to reach dozens of towns cut off by torrents of mud and debris unleashed by devastating late-season storms that killed at least 144 people.

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Ecuador trade benefits a "sticky" issue: U.S. senator (Reuters)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Reuters – The U.S. Congress will probably approve a short extension of trade benefits for Ecuador that expire next month despite concerns about actions that country has taken, a senior senator said on Tuesday.

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Japan police arrest suspect in slain Briton case (AP)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

FILE - In these file photo, left, and image distributed Nov. 6, 2009 by Chiba Prefectural Gyotoku Police, Tatsuya Ichihashi, the prime suspect in the 2007 murder case of British language school teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, is shown before, left, and after cosmetic surgeries. Japanese media reported Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, Ichihashi was arrested in Osaka, western Japan. Police said they produced the image, right, by adjusting the original photo taken late Oct., 2009, to represent Ichihashi's clean-shaven appearance. The photo, left, has been released by police since 2007. Hawker, 22, was found dead in March 2007, her body taped up and half-buried in a sand-filled bathtub on the balcony of an apartment in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Chiba Prefectural Gyotoku Police)AP – Japanese police said Tuesday that they arrested the main suspect in the slaying of a British teacher whose body was found taped up and half-buried in a sand-filled bathtub, ending a more than two-year manhunt.

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