National and International News

DA: Missing Pa. mom, girl found at Disney World (AP)

This photo released by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, shows Julia Rakoczy. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for Rakoczy, Wednesday May 27, 2009. Police were searching Rakoczy and her mother Bonnie Sweeten, of Feasterville, Pa., after the mother called 911 Tuesday to report that they had been abducted in  by men who rear-ended their car. (AP Photo/Upper Southampton Township Police)AP - A suburban mother who claimed she and her daughter had been abducted and stuffed in a car trunk is in custody in Florida after the pair were found at Disney World, where they had flown hours after the mother reporting their abduction, a prosecutor said Wednesday.


Pa. teens cleared of serious charges in beating (AP)

File - Derrick Donchak walks into the Schuylkill County Courthouse in Pottsville, Pa., in this Monday, Aug. 18, 2008 file photo. An all-white jury on Friday  May 1, 2009 acquitted Donchak and 17-year-old Brandon Piekarsky  of all serious charges against them stemming from the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant last summer. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AP - An all-white jury on Friday acquitted two Pennsylvania teenagers of all serious charges against them stemming from the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant last summer. A representative for the victim's family called the result an outrage.


More than 400 schools closed, 161 US flu cases (AP)

President Barack Obama meets with members of this cabinet including, from left, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,  Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Barack Obama voiced hope Friday that the swine flu virus will run its course "like ordinary flus" as officials reported more than two dozen new cases and scores more schools shut down.


Bombing in Nepal church kills 2, wounds 15 (AP)

AP - A bomb exploded in a church in the Nepalese capital during Saturday morning mass, killing two people and wounding 15, police said.

Death toll hits 7 in Pakistan blast near cinema (AP)

Security officials gather at the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar May 22, 2009. A car bomb which exploded outside a cinema in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday killed six people and wounded about 75, hospital officials said. Picture taken May 22, 2009. REUTERS/Ali Imam     (PAKISTAN POLITICS CONFLICT)AP - The death toll in a car bombing near a Pakistani movie theater climbed overnight to seven, police said Saturday, as the military surrounded Taliban strongholds elsewhere in the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.


SKorea, EU agree to push for early conclusion of FTA (AFP)

SKorean President Lee Myung-Bak (centre) poses for a photo with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (right) and Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic who is serving in the EU's rotating presidency, at the Blue House in Seoul, on May 23. SKorean and the EU leaders called for an early conclusion of a bilateral free trade deal and strenthened ties, a joint statement said.(AFP/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - South Korean and European Union leaders have called for the early conclusion of a major free trade agreement and urged North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament talks.