Month: April 2012

Engineers have restored propulsion power to a cruise ship carrying about 1,000 people after it was left adrift off Indonesia by an engine fire, cruise company Azamara Club Cruises said.

A series of deadly car bombings in two southern Thai provinces over the weekend are linked, officials said Sunday.

Rebels in Mali said they have seized control of a key town in the north, a major blow to rival coup leaders who toppled the nation’s president last month.

At least 23 troops were killed and eleven others wounded when Islamic militants raided and seized a strategic checkpoint in Yemen’s southern province of Lahj on Saturday, three security officials told CNN.

Government forces attacked protesters in Bahrain Saturday, according to a human rights group.

Two separate grenade attacks hit the Kenyan coast Saturday night, killing one person and wounding at least 33 others, officials said.

Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Sonora have arrested eight people accused of killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for Santa Muerte — the saint of death — officials said Friday.

Footage exclusive to CNN documents British photographer Paul Conroy’s dramatic escape weeks ago from Homs, Syria.

Violence in Iraq killed 112 people in March, the lowest monthly death toll since the U.S-led invasion in 2003, officials said Monday.