foreigners

Iran: 2 foreigners arrested, tied to stoning case (AP)

October 11th, 2010

An activist with red lipstick on her face to depict blood participates in a demonstration against a stoning sentence in Iran for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, pictured in the background, outside the Italian Parliament, in Rome,Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Iran has faced a growing storm of protest over a stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery that has been temporarily suspended. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Iranian authorities have arrested two foreigners as they were interviewing the son of a woman who could face death by stoning on an adultery conviction, the state news…

Foreigners and Locals in the Crosshairs of Yemen’s al-Qaedas (Time.com)

October 9th, 2010

Time.com - Yemeni militants tended to attack foreigners and avoid locals, but foreign jihadists have pushed to target Yemen’s U.S.-backed authorities

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Pakistani Taliban hint at attacks on aid workers (AP)

August 26th, 2010

Parvez, 7, a flood victim, carries a water cooler on his shoulder which he is preparing to fill from a hand pump while taking refuge with his family in a relief camp for flood victims in Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province August 26, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT HEALTH IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - The Taliban hinted Thursday they may launch attacks against foreigners helping Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the country’s history, saying their presence was “unacceptable.” The U.N.…

Foreigners boost insurgency in eastern Afghanistan (AP)

August 12th, 2010

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2010 file photo, Afghans gather at the scene of an attack on a presidential adviser in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Militants attacked the second government official in the east on the same day. The convoy was hit by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a rickshaw as it was driving through city, police said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)AP - As the spotlight of the Afghan war focuses on the south, insurgent activity is increasing in parts of the east, with Arab and other foreign fighters linked to…

Nicaragua: Detainees match photos of US suspects (AP)

July 28th, 2010

AP - Two foreigners detained in Nicaragua have been identified as the American couple wanted in Panama in the death of a U.S. woman, and police said Tuesday they would…

North Iraq hotel fire kills 28, half foreigners (AP)

July 16th, 2010

View of the fire-damaged Soma Hotel in the Iraqi northern city of Sulaimaniyah. Four Americans and at least three other foreigners were among 29 people killed in a hotel fire in northern Iraq that saw some of the victims jump to their deaths.(AFP/Shwan Mohammed)AP - A fire in a five-story hotel in northern Iraq killed 28 people, half of them foreigners, in a harrowing blaze that forced several victims to jump to their…

Hotel fire kills 29, including foreigners, in Iraq (AP)

July 16th, 2010

View of the fire-damaged Soma Hotel in the Iraqi northern city of Sulaimaniyah. Four Americans and at least three other foreigners were among 29 people killed in a hotel fire in northern Iraq that saw some of the victims jump to their deaths.(AFP/Shwan Mohammed)AP - A fire in a five-story hotel in northern Iraq killed 29 people, including foreigners, in a harrowing blaze that saw victims jumping to their deaths to escape the…

Blasts at 2 sites in Uganda kill at least 30 (AP)

July 11th, 2010

A man attends a injured women , Sunday, July 11, 2010, after a bomb went off in a restaurant in Kampala's Kabalagala district, named Ethiopian Village. The first verbal police report on the scene speaks of two killed and several injured, including possible two western guests of the restaurant. The bomb went off shortly before the break at the world cup final match taking place in South Africa. Many people gathered at the restaurant at this time to watch the football game. (AP Photo/Marcv Hoafer)AP - Bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda’s capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup final on TV, killing at least 30 people. Foreigners, including Europeans and…

Afghan passenger plane crashes with 44 on board (AP)

May 17th, 2010

AP - An Afghan passenger plane carrying 44 people, including six foreigners, crashed Monday in a mountainous northern region where poor weather was hampering efforts to locate it, officials said.…

Afghan president blames foreigners for vote fraud (AP)

April 1st, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second right, shakes hands with an Election Commission official during his visit to the Afghan Election Commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Karzai told election workers there had been 'vast fraud' in the Aug. 20 ballot but that it was not committed by Afghans. (AP Photo/S. Sabawoon, Pool)AP - President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the U.N. and international community Thursday, accusing them of interfering in last year’s fraud-tarnished presidential election and seeking to weaken his authority after…