Day: July 17, 2011

A key adviser of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a parliament member were killed Sunday in a home west of Kabul, officials said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday the United States “strongly supports” the austerity measures that Greece has taken to try to avert potential financial disaster.

Egypt’s finance and industry ministers have quit, amid protests calling for the interim government to quicken the pace of reform, officials said Sunday.

Zimbabwe’s electoral commission is not able to conduct the country’s elections this year unless it gets cash injection from the government; a state-owned weekly newspaper reported Sunday.

Fighting flared in Yemen’s volatile south Saturday, as security forces — backed by armed tribesmen — battled Islamic militants in the region, eyewitnesses said.

Virtually all of the miners who were trapped for 69 days in a Chilean mine last year have filed a lawsuit against the government, seeking more than half a million dollars each in damages.