Day: September 12, 2011

The U.S. State Department is condemning the killing of a key Syrian opposition organizer, who it says died while in the custody of Syria’s security forces.

At least 55 people have died after fire broke out along a fuel pipeline about three miles from the city center of Nairobi, police said Monday.

An oven exploded Monday at a nuclear site in France, killing one person and injuring four, a spokeswoman for French energy company EDF told CNN.

A 3-year-old Canadian boy kidnapped four days earlier was returned to his home early Sunday, and police were searching for a suspect, officials said.

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has authorized his vice president to negotiate a transfer of power with opposition parties, the state-run SABA News Agency reported Monday.

Three of the four men who were arrested this weekend on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Sweden are of Somali origin and the fourth is Iraqi, Swedish authorities told CNN Monday.