IF the Kennedy funeral looked a little like a royal occasion, we should not be surprised. The iconography of Kennedy’s passing was laden with memories of the Kennedy past: the death in the famous compound at Hyannis Port, the family mass in the little room that overlooks Nantucket Sound, the tour through Boston across the [...]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The Dalai Lama, a Tibetan spiritual leader reviled by China as a separatist, arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a hasty visit to comfort victims of a typhoon, testing the island’s improved ties with Beijing. Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, arrives at the Taoyuan International Airport August 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Nicky [...]
(AP) – ISLAMABAD – Pakistan rejected accusations its army illegally modified American-made missiles to increase its land-strike capability, denying Sunday that it reconfigured anti-ship weapons in a way that could target India. The denial was in response to a news report that the Obama administration made a diplomatic protest to Pakistan’s prime minister over the [...]
Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles surged in every direction, going in a single day from a modest threat to a danger to some 10,000 homes. The blaze nearly tripled in size in the heat Saturday, leaving three people burned, destroying at least three homes and forcing the [...]