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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2985 world World - McClatchy Newspapers en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:51:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2985 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090703/wl_mcclatchy/3265382 mcclatchy/20090703/3265382 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:51:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden's surprise two-day visit this weekend to Iraq was meant to "re-establish contact" with leaders here, but some Iraqis bristled at the messenger more than the message. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090703/wl_mcclatchy/3265377 mcclatchy/20090703/3265377 McClatchy Newspapers world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:28:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/wl_mcclatchy/3264983 mcclatchy/20090702/3264983 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:38:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Major Western countries, after applauding Pakistan's military crackdown on Islamic extremists in the Swat valley in the country's northwest, haven't pledged the money needed to resettle the population now that the fighting is mostly over, and humanitarian organizations fear that 2 million people will be sent back home before it's safe to go. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/wl_mcclatchy/3264941 mcclatchy/20090702/3264941 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:02:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — When the ousted president of Honduras hit Washington this week demanding a return to power, he got meetings with a White House adviser and a top U.S. diplomat. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/wl_mcclatchy/3264922 mcclatchy/20090702/3264922 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:48:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — If North Korea fires a missile at Hawaii on or around the July Fourth holiday, as Japanese reports have warned, the U.S. plans a measured response in coordination with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/wl_mcclatchy/3264850 mcclatchy/20090702/3264850 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:12:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — The massive Marine assault launched Thursday in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province is intended to recapture an area that's been under Taliban control for the past five years — a step officials think is critical to showing Afghan civilians that coalition forces can protect them from Islamist militants. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/wl_mcclatchy/3264706 mcclatchy/20090702/3264706 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - SHARANA, Afghanistan — 1st Lt. Chip Heidt, his wire spectacles sliding down his wet nose in the hot midday sun, was walking with a purpose amid a stretch of the 20-foot-high mud walls in this Afghan town opposite Pakistan's lawless Waziristan tribal area. Heidt, 25, a scion of the Scripps newspaper family in Cincinnati, was on a foot patrol to gather local intelligence. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090702/wl_mcclatchy/3264357 mcclatchy/20090702/3264357 McClatchy Newspapers world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:07:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines announced early Thursday that they've launched a "major operation" in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, saying they hope to drive the Taliban out of the country's major opium-producing community. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090701/wl_mcclatchy/3264168 mcclatchy/20090701/3264168 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:56:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — After hearing a "drumbeat" for more troops, White House National Security Adviser James L. Jones has told U.S. commanders in Afghanistan that they won't get any more troops this year beyond what President Barack Obama already has promised. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090701/wl_mcclatchy/3264104 mcclatchy/20090701/3264104 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:51:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — In a reversal of public opinion, most Pakistanis now consider terrorist groups a "critical threat" to their country and support their government in its fight against the Taliban in Swat valley, according to a survey released Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090701/wl_mcclatchy/3264079 mcclatchy/20090701/3264079 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:36:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090701/wl_mcclatchy/3264079"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r3038289781.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=w_tZPl1t0jcrup2QSlR5Mw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="A U.S. army gunner flies in a Chinook helicopter to Forward Operating Base Airborne in the mountains of Wardak Province, Afghanistan July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Beginning Thursday, American soldiers in Afghanistan will be under orders to back down when they're chasing Taliban fighters whenever they think that civilians might be at risk.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090701/wl_mcclatchy/3264079"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r3038289781.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=w_tZPl1t0jcrup2QSlR5Mw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="A U.S. army gunner flies in a Chinook helicopter to Forward Operating Base Airborne in the mountains of Wardak Province, Afghanistan July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090701/wl_mcclatchy/3263413 mcclatchy/20090701/3263413 McClatchy Newspapers world Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:34:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday slapped financial sanctions on two North Korean firms, including one based in Iran, as part of a crackdown on North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs following a May nuclear test blast and a series of provocative missile launches. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3263399 mcclatchy/20090630/3263399 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:59:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A militant commander in northwest Pakistan tore up a peace deal with the Pakistani government Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the government's campaign against Islamist insurgents in the extremist-controlled Waziristan region. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3263386 mcclatchy/20090630/3263386 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:50:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya formally began his campaign to reclaim his office Tuesday, making appeals to diplomats and Obama administration officials in the capital and in New York. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3263335 mcclatchy/20090630/3263335 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:34:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn — accused of spying for Cuba for nearly three decades — gave no sign of a secret life, friends and co-workers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3263210 mcclatchy/20090630/3263210 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:43:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3263210"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090630/capt.photo_1246395688459-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3irD7ydVIifMZO3wxB1Q5A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An Iraqi firefighter holds a hose as people crowd around a flipped vehicle following a car bomb at a central market in the northern city of Kirkuk, 255 kms from the capital Baghdad. Violence may continue in certain parts of Iraq in the coming months after US troops pull out of the country's cities, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — On a historic day for Americans and Iraqis alike — a rare if not unprecedented handoff of military sovereignty in an active war zone — the violence that's marred six years of U.S.-led occupation struck again.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3263210"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090630/capt.photo_1246395688459-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=3irD7ydVIifMZO3wxB1Q5A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Iraqi firefighter holds a hose as people crowd around a flipped vehicle following a car bomb at a central market in the northern city of Kirkuk, 255 kms from the capital Baghdad. Violence may continue in certain parts of Iraq in the coming months after US troops pull out of the country's cities, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3262727 mcclatchy/20090630/3262727 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:22:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government Monday blamed U.S.-led coalition forces for the killing of Kandahar's police chief and criminal investigations director on coalition forces, saying the Afghan guards that shot them to death were working for and trained by the coalition. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090630/wl_mcclatchy/3262718 mcclatchy/20090630/3262718 McClatchy Newspapers world Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:08:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Iranian government's electoral watchdog Monday confirmed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide victory in the disputed June 12 presidential election after police wielding batons and cables prevented more than a thousand demonstrators from organizing a rally to protest the results. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090629/wl_mcclatchy/3262697 mcclatchy/20090629/3262697 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:49:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090629/wl_mcclatchy/3262697"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090629/capt.facce447a2c545449ebdc1b49280f437.correction_argentina_sc_governor_the_mistress_xlat101.jpg?x=106&y=130&q=85&sig=xVRvfQcCDuksjA3yve1fMg--" align="left" height="130" width="106" alt="In this undated video frame grab, taken from a C5N TV Channel from Argentina report sometime during the Sept.11, 2001 twin towers attacks in New York, Argentine Maria Belen Chapur speaks during a stand up. The 41-year-old Argentine woman, who had worked as free-lance journalist in the past, has acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. In a statement sent to news network C5N of Buenos Aires, Chapur said she will not talk about her private life, but also said the email exchanges with Sanford that were widely published by U.S. media and elsewhere were obtained by someone who hacked her account.(AP Photo/C5N TV)" border="0" /></a>McClatchy Newspapers - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Maria Belen Chapur, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's Argentine girlfriend, is feeling down and hoping that the harsh glare of the public spotlight will pass quickly.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090629/wl_mcclatchy/3262697"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090629/capt.facce447a2c545449ebdc1b49280f437.correction_argentina_sc_governor_the_mistress_xlat101.jpg?x=106&y=130&q=85&sig=xVRvfQcCDuksjA3yve1fMg--" align="left" height="130" width="106" alt="photo" title="In this undated video frame grab, taken from a C5N TV Channel from Argentina report sometime during the Sept.11, 2001 twin towers attacks in New York, Argentine Maria Belen Chapur speaks during a stand up. The 41-year-old Argentine woman, who had worked as free-lance journalist in the past, has acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. In a statement sent to news network C5N of Buenos Aires, Chapur said she will not talk about her private life, but also said the email exchanges with Sanford that were widely published by U.S. media and elsewhere were obtained by someone who hacked her account.(AP Photo/C5N TV)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (McClatchy Newspapers) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchywl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090629/wl_mcclatchy/3262661 mcclatchy/20090629/3262661 McClatchy Newspapers world Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:54:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — The unresolved dispute between the United States and Israel over Israel's refusal to halt building Jewish homes in the predominantly Palestinian West Bank has created a pivotal dilemma for President Barack Obama: How hard should he push one of America's most important allies in the Middle East?