Boston.com / Boston Globe -- World News http://www.boston.com/news/world en-us 2009-11-20T21:07:36Z Boston.com http://www.boston.com/ http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/bcom_logo_140w.gif Mumbai still vulnerable 1 year after attack http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2009/11/20/mumbai_still_vulnerable_1_year_after_attack?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News The walls that the rockets blew out have not been repaired, and the plaster is a dense scattershot of bullet holes. Dozens of holes, blasted by grenades, pockmark the linoleum floors. Erika Kinetz, Associated Press Writer 2009-11-20T20:52:37Z Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/11/20/kidnapped_britons_say_somali_pirates_may_kill_them?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon. David Stringer, Associated Press Writer 2009-11-20T20:42:50Z Afghan police are weak link in security force http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2009/11/20/afghan_police_are_weak_link_in_security_force?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home. Elena Becatoros, Associated Press Writer 2009-11-20T18:51:58Z Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/11/20/fingers_tooth_said_to_be_galileos_are_found?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday. 2009-11-20T18:51:57Z Gates: US to do its part to slow Afghan corruption http://www.boston.com/news/world/canada/articles/2009/11/20/pentagon_us_to_look_at_own_role_in_afghan_graft?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Writer 2009-11-20T17:42:13Z Karzai is upbeat at inaugural http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/11/20/karzai_sets_ambitious_reassuring_goals_in_inaugural?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News KABUL - Tainted by a flawed election and allegations of festering corruption in his government, President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated yesterday for a second term, promising to remedy the country’s problems and to have the Afghan Army assume full control of security within five years. Alissa J. Rubin and Mark Landler, New York Times 2009-11-20T05:59:31Z world Islamic nations pressing UN panel for treaty that would ban blasphemy http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/11/20/islamic_nations_pressing_un_panel_for_treaty_that_would_ban_blasphemy?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News GENEVA - Four years after cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery - essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West. Frank Jordans, Associated Press 2009-11-20T04:03:32Z world Iraqi lawmakers struggle over election law dispute http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/11/20/iraqi_lawmakers_struggle_over_election_law_dispute?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News BAGHDAD - Iraqi lawmakers will vote tomorrow on how to break a deadlock over a key election law after a vice president vetoed the legislation, causing a crisis that could delay a national vote scheduled for January and change the timetable for an American troop withdrawal. Christopher Torchia, Associated Press 2009-11-20T04:02:19Z world Lithuanian officials open new inquiry into secret CIA prisons http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/11/20/lithuanian_officials_open_new_inquiry_into_secret_cia_prisons?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News VILNIUS, Lithuania - Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned Al Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. Craig Whitlock, Washington Post 2009-11-20T04:02:05Z world Belgium’s prime minister to lead EU http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/11/20/belgiums_prime_minister_to_lead_eu?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News BRUSSELS - Champions of European unity hoped their new president would be a continental George Washington, a brand name who could pull the European Union closer together and fulfill their dream of a strengthened role for Europe in world affairs. Edward Cody, The Washington Post 2009-11-20T04:01:24Z world World powers considering new sanctions on Iran http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2009/11/20/world_powers_considering_new_sanctions_on_iran?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News SEOUL - President Obama said yesterday that the six nations dealing with Iran’s nuclear program will develop a package of serious new punitive measures in coming weeks. The European Union said the six would meet immediately to begin consultations. Charles Hutzler and Slobodan Lekic, Associated Press 2009-11-20T04:00:58Z world French court acquits all in fatal blast http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/11/20/french_court_acquits_all_in_fatal_blast?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News TOULOUSE, France - A court yesterday acquitted a subsidiary of French oil giant Total and a former factory chief in a 2001 explosion at a chemical plant that killed 31 people and left more than 2,000 injured. Associated Press 2009-11-20T03:58:57Z world Tokyo crowned new gourmet capital http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2009/11/20/tokyo_crowned_new_gourmet_capital?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News TOKYO - The Epicurean king who oversees the Michelin Guide fears he may be banished from France. Associated Press 2009-11-20T03:58:08Z world Sunni leader in Iraq sentenced to death http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/11/20/sunni_leader_in_iraq_sentenced_to_death?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News BAGHDAD - A leader of a Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder yesterday, setting off charges that the Shi’ite-dominated Iraqi government was trying to weaken the Sunni movement, which is credited with much of the reduction in sectarian violence since 2006. New York Times 2009-11-20T03:57:46Z world Nairobi letter: Seeking a stable Kenya http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2008/02/01/nairobi_letter_seeking_a_stable_kenya?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+World+News To the Globe's Foreign Desk, I read the article in the Globe online yesterday "Kenya on the edge of a precipice" by Charlie Clements and the accompanying blog on the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's website. It was well-written and interesting. I wanted to let you know that my husband and I moved to Nairobi, Kenya 3 weeks before the presidential ... 2008-02-01T19:31:53Z