http://www.post-gazette.com/nationworld/ National and world news en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:40:42 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076203-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml PHOENIX -- A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration enforcement law from going into effect, a ruling that at least temporarily squashed a state policy that had inflamed the national debate over immigration. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076204-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml TUCSON -- Dr. Bruce Parks unzips a white body bag on a steel gurney and gingerly lifts out a human skull and mandible, turning them over in his hands and examining the few teeth still in their sockets. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076205-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned just four years ago: Internet gambling. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076206-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A month after the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Joseph P. Kennedy, the American ambassador in London and father of a future president, expressed grave doubts about "this war for idealism" against Hitler. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076208-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- Rampant corruption in Afghanistan provides the Taliban with their No. 1 recruiting tool, the Obama administration's special representative to the region, Richard C. Holbrooke, said Wednesday. But he insisted that the United States was taking adequate precautions to cut down on the misuse of billions of dollars in American aid to the country. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076209-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's drug cartels hang banners, attach warning notes to bodies and post videos on the Internet to intimidate the police, the military, the news media, their rivals and anyone else who gets in their way. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076210-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., left, said Wednesday during a visit to Cairo that he hoped an investigation into the death of a man in police custody last month would be carried out "in a transparent way" and that anyone responsible "would be held accountable." His comments came a day after two police officers charged with using excessive force to subdue the man, Khaled Said, made their first appearance in an Alexandria courtroom. Mr. Said's death led to weeks of demonstrations against police brutality Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076211-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is reviewing tens of thousands of classified battlefield reports made public this week about the war in Afghanistan to determine whether Afghan informants were identified and could be at risk of reprisals, American officials said Wednesday. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076075-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml SAINT OUEN, France -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076077-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in fog and intense rain in the Himalayan foothills near this capital city Wednesday morning, killing all 152 people on board in the country's deadliest domestic plane crash, according to civil aviation and airline officials. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076104-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076107-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday passed a historic bill that narrows sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine convictions, which civil rights and civil liberties experts say contributed to the disproportionate imprisonment of African Americans in recent decades. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076116-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml KABUL, Afghanistan --A bomb blast tore through a crowded passenger bus on a desert highway in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 on board and injuring about 20 more, some seriously, government officials said. All were described as civilians. Afghan and Western officials denounced the insurgency for planting homemade bombs along roads heavily used by civilians. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076122-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MADRID Lawmakers in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia voted to ban bullfighting Wednesday, dealing the most significant blow so far to a tradition considered by many Spaniards to be an essential part of their cultural patrimony. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076136-96.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned just four years ago: Internet gambling. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076137-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is reviewing tens of thousands of classified battlefield reports made public this week about the war in Afghanistan to determine whether Afghan informants were identified and could be at risk of reprisals, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076138-176.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The calls from fellow Democrats for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to resign could quickly turn from a trickle to a flood unless he can quickly negotiate a plea bargain to prevent a congressional trial on allegations of ethical misconduct. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076139-113.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml LOS ANGELES -- The largest oil spill in U.S. history has unleashed a gusher of at least 250 class-action lawsuits that could eventually encompass millions of victims in a massive legal battle expected to stretch on for decades. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076144-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml PHOENIX -- A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration enforcement law from going into effect, a ruling that at least temporarily squashed a state policy that had catalyzed a national debate over immigration. U.S. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076155-407.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml CHICAGO -- States are putting hundreds of thousands of people directly into jobs through programs reminiscent of the more ambitious work projects of the Great Depression. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075771-113.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- When PennEnvironment organizer Adam Garber got the news, he was sitting in a café in the Hart Senate Office Building with four energetic Pennsylvanians in town to lobby for a comprehensive climate bill. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:57:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075838-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MONTE RIO, Calif. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075839-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml SAN CARLOS, Ariz. -- He cuts a tiny figure in the vastness of the upland desert, the expanse of scrub and brush and saguaro cactuses and red ragged mountains. He is a red-headed boy with a sunburned nose and sunglasses, and he moves with a step not graceful, nor terribly fast, but steady and determined, his mouth set in a hard line. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075840-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected, a piece of good news that raises tricky new questions about how fast the government should scale back its response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075841-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday morning threw out the rape convictions of the polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs and sent the case back for a new trial, ruling that the instructions given to the jury during his prosecution were faulty. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075843-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml CAPE TOWN -- It was another picture-perfect wedding at the foot of Table Mountain, recalled the Rev. Daniel Brits. Inside the chapel, a female vocalist sang "Wind Beneath My Wings" before he led the nervous couple through their vows surrounded by family and friends a few weeks ago. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075844-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml JERUSALEM -- A macabre legal wrangle is under way over who should pay the hospital bill for an American art student who lost an eye after being struck by a tear-gas canister fired by an Israeli border police officer at a Palestinian-led protest in the West Bank. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075845-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml An independent commission of inquiry into the Jan. 19 killings of a dozen or more inmates at a prison in Les Cayes, Haiti, was formally established by presidential decree this week, officials said Tuesday. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075846-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-American musician admired in his homeland as a celebrity who never forgot his roots, appears to be contemplating a run for the Haitian presidency in the Nov. 28 elections. On Tuesday, as Haiti buzzed with speculation that Mr. Jean, 37, was poised to declare his candidacy, his family issued a statement that said: "At this time, Wyclef Jean has not announced his intent to run for Haitian president. If and when a decision is made, the media will be alerted immediately." Presidential as Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075847-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Two police officers accused of using excessive force against a 28-year-old man who died in police custody in June made their first court appearance on Tuesday, in a case that human rights advocates say is a test of the government's willingness to root out a culture of police abuse. During the hearing, lawyers for the family of the victim, Khaled Said, gave a judge a witness list, including people who they said saw the officers, Mahmoud Saleh, 33, and Awad Ismael Suleiman, 31, beat Mr. Said to death. Two aut Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075848-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday to provide $59 billion to continue financing America's two wars, but the vote showed deepening divisions and anxiety among Democrats over the course of the nearly nine-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075736-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- One of two American servicemen who disappeared in a dangerous area south of the Afghan capital last week has been confirmed dead, the Western military said Tuesday. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075752-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- Local governments across the country are facing an intensifying fiscal crisis that is forcing them to make deep cuts in personnel and services just as more hard-pressed residents are seeking their help, according to a report released Tuesday. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075773-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Target Corp. on Tuesday defended use of its new freedom to spend money on political campaigns while employees and gay organizations criticized a $150,000 donation that will help a Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate who opposes gay marriage. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075774-176.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans beat back Democratic attempts Tuesday to pass a bill that would impose stringent disclosure requirements on corporations, unions and other independent groups that finance ads for political campaigns. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075777-28.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BP gave investors a glimpse of its future Tuesday, one that will feature a new American chief executive, slimmed-down operations and $32.2 billion or more of payments to clean up and compensate people damaged by the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075781-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The House agreed Tuesday to provide $59 billion to continue financing America's two wars, but the vote showed deepening divisions and anxiety among Democrats over the course of the nearly 9-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075782-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BAGHDAD -- The Defense Department is unable to properly account for $8.7 billion of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil revenue entrusted to it between 2004 and 2007, according to a newly released audit that underscores a pattern of poor record-keeping during the war. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075786-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml AMMAN, Jordan -- In a surprise visit to Amman, Israel's prime minister on Tuesday tried to mobilize Jordan's king in his effort to persuade the Palestinians to resume direct peace talks, though the chief Palestinian negotiator again rejected the idea. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075787-113.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml KENNER, La. -- Even though significantly less crude is floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, federal officials warned Tuesday that the region could still suffer long-term negative impacts from the spill, particularly from oil beneath the water's surface. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075666-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml A Pittsburgh woman has been arrested on allegations she defrauded advertisers and exhibitors out of thousands of dollars for a fake bridal show in Boston Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075634-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml For the last quarter century, the Cleveland Botanical Garden went all out for its biennial Flower Show, the largest outdoor garden show in North America. With themed gardens harking back to the Roman empire, or an 18th-century English estate, the event would draw 25,000 to 30,000 visitors. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075635-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The Department of Defense has identified 1,190 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075636-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml DELHI, Iowa -- What was a sparkling lake last week is now a muddy graveyard. The skeletons are mangled white boatlifts wedged in rocky sandbars. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075637-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- Unlike many other health policy experts, Dr. Donald M. Berwick, the new chief of Medicare and Medicaid, has extensive real world experience. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075639-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- For 30 years since the brutal Khmer Rouge regime was driven from power, Cambodians have lived with unresolved trauma, with skulls and bones from killing fields still lying in the open and with parents hiding the pain of their past from their children. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075640-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml PARIS -- Saharan militants affiliated with Al Qaeda executed a French hostage in retaliation for a failed rescue operation last week, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France confirmed on Monday. He vowed to retaliate. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075641-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- The disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased pressure on President Obama to defend his military strategy as Congress prepares to deliberate financing of the Afghanistan war. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075642-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml SANTA CLARA, Cuba -- Raúl Castro is known among Cubans as a pragmatist, not an orator. But the Cuban president surprised even those accustomed to his reticence on Monday, when he chose not to address an expectant crowd gathered to celebrate Revolution Day in this university town. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075643-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml PARIS -- When Elisa Cammarota gets home from school, she tosses off her knapsack and reads her newspaper from front to back. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075644-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The United Nations Dispute Tribunal has awarded more than $700,000 to a former senior official in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs for breach of contract, a decision the world organization will appeal, said Martin Nesirky, the spokesman for the secretary general. The official, Guido Bertucci, 61, an Italian, resorted to the tribunal after he was not promoted to assistant secretary general in 2008 despite United Nations guidelines that give preference to internal candidates, his lawyer, Fran&cce Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075645-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MOSUL, Iraq -- Members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia have been holding up blood banks and hospitals at gunpoint, stealing blood for their wounded fighters rather than risk having them arrested at medical facilities, according to Iraqi doctors, employees at health centers and the Sunni insurgents themselves. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075646-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Fighting in northern Yemen intensified on Monday, with dozens of people killed in battles between Houthi rebels and tribesmen loyal to the government, according to witnesses and government officials. The rebels captured two strategic military posts and injured a prominent tribal chief who is a member of Yemen's Parliament, prompting other lawmakers to call for a more forceful government counterattack against the rebels. The government reached a formal truce in February with the Houthis -- named for the fami Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075647-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials said Monday that 52 people were killed in southern Afghanistan on Friday when a rocket fired by coalition forces slammed into a house where women and children had taken shelter from fighting between NATO troops and militants. But American officials disputed the account. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075648-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MEXICO CITY -- The Honduran government's failure to investigate the killings of seven journalists this year has fostered "a climate of lawlessness that is allowing criminals to kill journalists with impunity," the Committee to Protect Journalists concluded in a report released Tuesday. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075649-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BAGHDAD -- On Sunday, a journalist for Al Arabiya, an Arabic-language news channel, sat in the newsroom and explained that his staff had recently returned to the bureau after being forced to leave for weeks by threats from Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075650-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BEIJING -- Protests over land grabs, industrial pollution and poor work conditions often rattle the Chinese authorities. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075516-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BRUSSELS -- The European Union and Canada on Monday adopted new sanctions against Iran, targeting its foreign trade, banking and energy sectors. The moves are the latest in a series of measures taken by the international community in an effort to halt Iran's nuclear program. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:21:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075514-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak came to Washington on Monday bearing two warnings for U.S. policymakers: Sanctions won't thwart Iran's push for nuclear weapons, and Israel will strike directly at Lebanese government institutions if Hezbollah launches rockets at Israeli towns. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:20:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075605-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BELL, Calif. -- The mayor of Bell apologized Monday for the excessive salaries paid to city officials and said he will step down after completing his term in March 2011 without pay. Mayor Oscar Hernandez said in a statement posted on the Bell city clerk's website that the salaries were indefensible. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:15:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075610-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml LONDON -- Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP's flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job with the company's joint venture in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:15:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10208/1075576-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- Though propelled to fame by its recent disclosures about the U.S. military, WikiLeaks has homed in on targets as wide-ranging as corruption in the Kenyan ruling family, alleged illegal activities by a Swiss bank and Sarah Palin's private e-mail account. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:02:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075439-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BEATRICE, Neb. -- Give away land to make money? Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075440-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml DELHI, Iowa -- When your life and livelihood are so dependent on a lake, as Chris Stender's are, a flood like the one that hit his hometown here over the weekend throws everything into a muddy tailspin. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075441-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The Department of Defense has identified 1,184 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the death of the following American on Saturday: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075442-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner pressed the case on Sunday for letting Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire later this year. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075444-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A United Nations-backed tribunal on Monday found a 67-year-old former prison warden of the Khmer Rouge guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes for overseeing the torture and killing of more than 14,000 prisoners. He was the first major figure to be tried in the murderous regime since it was toppled 30 years ago. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075445-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml This article was written and reported by C. J. Chivers, Carlotta Gall, Andrew W. Lehren, Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, and Eric Schmitt, with contributions from Jacob Harris and Alan McLean. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075446-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml LONDON -- A coming Senate hearing in Washington has set off a new round of political disavowals by British and Scottish officials who laid the groundwork for last year's release of the former Libyan intelligence agent convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075447-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml MEXICO CITY -- Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guards' weapons and vehicles, officials said Sunday, revealing a level of corruption that is stunning even in a country where prison breakouts are common as guards look the other way. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075448-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml WikiLeaks.org, the online organization that posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war on Sunday, says its goal in disclosing secret documents is to reveal "unethical behavior" by governments and corporations. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075449-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports -- records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan -- that were made public on Sunday on the Internet. The New York Times, The Guardian newspaper in London, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given access to the material several weeks ago. These reports are used by desk officers in the Pentagon and troops in the field when they mak Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075450-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml SÃO PAULO, Brazil -- Sebastián Piñera, Chile's president, abruptly rejected calls on Sunday from the Roman Catholic Church to pardon dozens of imprisoned military officials convicted of human rights violations during the era known as Chile's dirty war. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075451-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- As a huge manhunt for two missing American servicemen widened throughout a dangerous region of eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, a Taliban spokesman said that one had been killed in an ambush and the other captured. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075452-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml SEOUL, South Korea -- The United States and South Korea began their largest joint war games in years on Sunday, with a nuclear powered American aircraft carrier prowling off the east coast of South Korea while North Korea threatened to retaliate and reportedly put its military on alert for war. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075453-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml GARANHUNS, Brazil -- With less than three months until the presidential election, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is trying to make enough of his magic dust stick to his chosen successor, Dilma Rousseff, to persuade voters to elect her as the first female president of Brazil, Latin America's largest country. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075454-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Paulina Sugiarto's three children played together at a mall here the other day, chattering not in Indonesia's national language, but English. Their fluency often draws admiring questions from other Indonesian parents Ms. Sugiarto encounters in this city's upscale malls. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075455-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml INAKADATE, Japan -- Nearly two decades ago, Koichi Hanada, a clerk in the village hall, received an unusual request from his superior: find a way to bring tourists to this small community in rural northern Japan, which has rice paddies and apple orchards, but not much else. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075366-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Four months after James Clapper left his federal job as head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in June 2006, he joined the boards of three government contractors, two of which had been doing business with his agency while he was there. It was not the only revolving door he'd entered. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075371-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Thousands of classified documents related to the Afghan war released without authorization by the group Wikileaks.org reveal in excruciating detail the struggles faced by U.S. troops as they battle an increasingly potent Taliban force and also try to work with Pakistani allies who often appear to be helping the Taliban. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075372-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml Taking their boldest step since the March sinking of the Cheonan warship, the United States and South Korea on Sunday began a massive joint military exercise designed to show off power and solidarity in a region divided by tensions. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10207/1075385-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml BP's Tony Hayward, whose gaffes added insult to oil-spill injury for the Gulf Coast, is on his way out as CEO, a U.S. government official said Sunday. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400