http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com World 60 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:05:01 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/796921.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/796921.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Relations between China and Europe have frayed suddenly, and a caustic diplomatic row has given way to suggestions that China is again targeting France as a whipping boy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/796903.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/796903.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Miami investor Prem Lalvani was on a routine business trip to Mumbai, India's commercial capital: meetings during the day, drinks and dinner with clients at night, back in the United States by the end of the week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/795329.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/795329.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST As many as 38 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded Monday in multiple attacks across Iraq, including one in which a man detonated a suicide vest near a convoy of coalition vehicles in Mosul, killing up to 16. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/793922.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/793922.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01 EST After the gunmen left, a waiter whispered, ``If you can move, follow me.'' So Michael Rudder, Helen Connolly, Andy Baragon and Linda Ronsdale crawled, bleeding, through the kitchen of a restaurant at the luxury Oberoi hotel. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/792875.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/792875.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Influential religious leaders across Iraq are voicing reservations about a U.S.-Iraq security agreement that allows Americans to remain in the country for another three years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790933.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790933.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:13 EST (AP) -- Commandos who stormed the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-orthodox Jewish group found the bodies of five hostages inside, including a New York rabbi and his wife, officials said, as a fresh battle raged at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel and other Indian forces ended a siege at another five-star hotel. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790535.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790535.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation's history as the man who ended the American occupation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790519.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/790519.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The brutal, tactical attack in Mumbai comes at a time when India is flexing its economic muscle worldwide and when tensions between India and Pakistan -- always haunted by the tacit presence of nuclear weapons on both sides of the border -- seemed to have ratcheted down. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789479.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789479.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In a series of dramatic attacks in the heart of India's financial capital, teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station Wednesday night, killing at least 100 people and taking Westerners hostage. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789504.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789504.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST When Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities in the 19th century, he was trying to capture the spirit of two history-soaked European capitals, London and Paris, in the days before and during the French Revolution. If Dickens were alive today, though, he could write a book of the same title without ever leaving London. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789478.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/789478.html Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Iraq's Parliament postponed a pivotal vote on a U.S.-Iraq security agreement on Wednesday while key lawmakers sought compromises that would appease an alliance of Sunni parties. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/788746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/788746.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:52 EST Osama bin Laden's former driver returned home to Yemen on Wednesday to serve out his remaining prison sentence after the U.S. released him from Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787863.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The Bush administration has adopted a much looser interpretation than the Iraqi government of several key provisions of the pending U.S.-Iraq security agreement, U.S. officials said Tuesday -- just hours before the Iraqi parliament was to hold its historic vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787830.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/787830.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Don't wait until the financial crisis is over to attack global warming because cleaner ways to produce and use energy will lead to a stronger economy, leaders of environmental groups said Tuesday as they outlined their wish list for President-elect Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/786324.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/786324.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Three explosions killed at least 16 Iraqis on Monday, including 14 who were in a bus to a government ministry and an Iraqi soldier at a heavily guarded checkpoint leading to the U.S.-controlled International Zone. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/786065.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/786065.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:41 EST The Pentagon was preparing Monday to repatriate Osama bin Laden's driver to his native Yemen before the end of his prison sentence at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/785987.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/785987.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:43 EST A federal judge on Monday refused to block the military trial of a Canadian held at Guantánamo Bay and charged with killing a U.S. soldier while still a juvenile. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/784932.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/784932.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The Dalai Lama on Sunday said he would not immediately break off talks with China over Tibet's future even though hundreds of his top followers want him to halt what they see as fruitless negotiations. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/785055.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/785055.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:54 EST President Hugo Chávez's candidates won a majority of the governor's elections in Venezuela on Sunday, but opposition forces could point to gains with victories in several major states as well as the city of Caracas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/783915.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/783915.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Al Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al Qaeda, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country's internationally backed government nears collapse.