By Steve Herman Tokyo 13 June 2006 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Leaders of Japan's political opposition are demanding Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fire a central bank governor who owns shares in a fund run by a shareholder activist who has b...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 13 June 2006 The House of Representatives has approved, by a vote of 351 to 67, $70 billion in new funding in support of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The vote comes a few days before a House debate o...
By Steve Herman Tokyo 13 June 2006 South Korean fishing boats around Dokdo islets, known as 'Takeshima' in Japan No progress was made during the first talks in six years between Japan and South Korea concerning a disputed maritime boundary. --------...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 13 June 2006 A Palestinian youth cleans the blood next to the site of an Israeli air strike on a car, after shrapnel hit a nearby house causing injuries, in Gaza City, Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Israeli air strikes in the Gaza St...
By Scott Stearns White House 13 June 2006 President Bush, left, walks in courtyard of U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right President Bush is in Iraq on a surprise visit meant to show his support for the new gover...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 13 June 2006 Italian fans watch Italy vs Ghana, Group E, World Cup 2006, soccer match, on a giant screen set up in downtown Duomo square in Milan Italians celebrated their victory over Ghana in the first soccer game in th...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 June 2006 Somalia President Abdullahi Yusuf, center, leave a meeting of IGAD, June 13, 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya In east Africa, members of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are discussing ways of punis...
By Zuli Palacio Washington, D.C. 13 June 2006 Watch Exhibit Report World Cup live broadcasts are part of the exhibit To celebrate the popularity of football, or soccer as it is called in the United States, and to coincide with the World Cup, the Nat...
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 13 June 2006 Watch Fertility Report Egg fertilization in a laboratory Last year, infertile couples in the U.S. spent nearly $3 billion to improve their chances of having babies. They also paid out more than $38 million...
By Parke Brewer Gelsenkirchen, Germany 12 June 2006 Czech Republic's Jaroslav Plasil (l) fights for the ball with U.S. team's Eddie Pope The U.S. Soccer team got off to a rocky start in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, losing to the Czech Republic, 3-...
By Gary Thomas Washington 12 June 2006 The United States and its European allies have offered Iran a package of incentives to get Tehran to abandon any ambition to build nuclear weapons. Iran has not rejected the package outright, but is standing fi...
By Catherine Drew Berlin 12 June 2006 watch World Cup Racism report Trinidadian fans celebrate their team's scoreless draw at the 2006 World Cup A time to make friends --- that's the official motto of the 2006 World Cup, which got underway Friday, J...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 June 2006 The presidents of Sudan and Eritrea met in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in a bid to improve relations between the two countries. The leaders were expected to discuss the rebellion taking place in eastern Sudan...
By Paula Wolfson White House 12 June 2006 President Bush is holding two days of private talks with his top advisers to discuss - what he calls - the way forward in Iraq. Leaders of the new Iraqi government will join the discussions Tuesday by videoc...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 June 2006 In Somalia's capital, there are mixed reactions over the recent closure of public cinemas by hard-line Islamists, with some people believing the closures are just the beginning of repressive measures, while oth...
