Month: September 2011

Mexican government officials plan to include the border city of Juarez in independence celebrations despite raging drug-related violence in the area.

Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 233 people in Pakistan, a disaster agency spokesman said Wednesday, as a weather forecast calls for more rain over deluged parts of the country.

Libya’s interim leadership gave residents in the pro-Gadhafi stronghold of Bani Walid a 48-hour notice to leave the city, as it sent reinforcements there and to the former regime’s other remaining strongholds at Sirte and Sabha.

The father of long-missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway has asked a court to declare her dead, a move the girl’s mother says came as a surprise.

Explosions rocked two government security offices Thursday morning in Aden, Yemen. The first explosion occurred at the city’s political security headquarters, while the other was at al-Mualla police station, witnesses said.