SLOBODAN LEKIC AP Aviation Writer= BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union speeded up action on a sweeping reform of its air traffic control system Friday after a crisis over volcanic ash turned much of the continent into a no-fly zone for days. "The worst is now over, but there is a huge amount of work to be done to deal with crisis management," EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas told reporters. Germany invited aviation experts, EU officials and industry representatives to Berlin on Tuesday to...
NATO said alliance is on track with its strategy for winding down in Afghanistan next year, despite security setbacks and a continuing shortage of trainers for the Afghan army. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen offered a mostly upbeat assessment to a gathering of allied foreign ministers,...
Nato foreign ministers are expected to consider criteria for deciding how and when to hand over responsibility for Afghanistan to the government there. The foreign ministers, and their partners in the international coalition in Afghanistan, are meeting in the Estonian capital Tallinn. The...
LOS ANGELES-With his latest appeal rejected, Roman Polanski's fate once again lies in the hands of Swiss authorities. A California appeals court on Thursday rejected Polanski's bid to have his case reviewed by a special counsel or to be sentenced in absentia. Swiss Justice Ministry officials had...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of Thai riot police confronted anti-government protesters in Bangkok's business district on Friday, a day after grenades killed at least one person and wounded 86, but later pulled back without violence. Police officers in riot gear create a cordon in Bangkok's Silom...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed Palestinian statehood with temporary borders, to sidestep a deadlock over settlements ahead of talks on Friday with a U.S. envoy, a newspaper said. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet...
NEW ORLEANS - A blazing oil rig has sunk into the Gulf of Mexico, sparking fears of an environmental disaster two days after a massive blast that left 11 workers missing. US maritime authorities said crude oil was pouring into the sea at the site where the hulking Deepwater Horizon rig once stood,...
MEXICO CITY - Mexican army troops have captured drug boss Gerardo Alvarez-Vazquez, nicknamed "The Indian," a man also wanted in the United States for allegedly coordinating the trafficking of major shipments of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and marijuana. Although he was far from a household name...
