Croatia rips Ecuador 5-0 in Davis Cup first-rounder - CBS 5 - Green Bay
Croatia put the finishing touches Sunday on a 5-0 sweep of visiting Ecuador in a best-of-five Davis Cup first-round matchup. In a pair of dead rubbers on Day 3, Antonio Veic vaulted past Julio-Cesar Campozano 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) and Ivan Dodig drubbed ...
Ecuador: 16 Canadians rescued from grounded yacht in ... - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorean officials say 16 Canadian tourists and eight Ecuadorean crew members have been rescued from a yacht that ran aground in the Galapagos Islands. The country's national park service says all of those aboard the 140 ...
Three people injured in shooting at Old Montreal ... - Am770chqr.com
QUITO, Ecuador - Sixteen Canadian tourists exploring the Galapagos Islands were rescued from a reef after the yacht they were travelling on ran aground, the tour operator said Thursday. OTTAWA - Conservative MPs are preventing the grieving widow of ...
LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS - Brainerd Dispatch
Adventurous CLC alum o present Ecuador The next Cultural Thursday program at Central Lakes College will be through the eyes of 2009 CLC graduate Jesse MacArthur. The program is scheduled at noon April 1 in Chalberg Theatre on the Brainerd campus.
Tourist yacht runs aground in Galapagos - msnbc.com
QUITO, Ecuador - Sixteen Canadian tourists and eight Ecuadorean crew members were rescued from a yacht that ran aground in the Galapagos Islands, officials said Thursday. No injuries were reported in the Wednesday evening rescue by navy and national ...
Ecuador is tiny, but remarkably diverse - Vancouver Sun
Though Ecuador is tiny, it is remarkably, richly diverse. Drive 20 minutes and everything changes, in this South American country that's slightly smaller than Nevada: the topography, climate, plants and animals -- even the culture. Nowhere else have ...
Amazon Defense Coalition: Ecuador Plaintiffs Appeal U.S ... - Earthtimes
NEW YORK - (Business Wire) Lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs suing Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into Ecuador’s Amazon filed a notice of appeal today in U.S. federal court seeking to prevent the oil giant from taking ...
Canadians rescued from grounded yacht in Galapagos - The Guardian
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Sixteen Canadian tourists and eight Ecuadorean crew members were rescued from a yacht that ran aground in the Galapagos Islands, officials said Thursday. No injuries were reported in the Wednesday evening rescue by navy and ...
16 Canadians rescued from yacht that ran aground in ... - Winnipeg Free Press
QUITO, Ecuador - Sixteen Canadian tourists exploring the Galapagos Islands were rescued from a reef after the yacht they were travelling on ran aground, the tour operator said Thursday. Fernando Diez, public relations manager for Quazar Expeditions ...
Hot Off the Wire - dBusinessNews.com
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lawyers for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs suing Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into Ecuador's Amazon filed a notice of appeal today in U.S. federal court seeking to prevent the oil giant from taking its ...
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Darfur aid worker freed after 147-day kidnap ordeal
Sudanese forces freed a Red Cross aid worker from kidnappers who had held him in Darfur for 147 days, a security chief said on Thursday.
Sudan and Darfur rebel group sign cease-fire
Sudan's government and a collection of Darfur rebel groups signed a cease-fire Thursday — the second such deal in less than a month with a key rebel faction — opening the way for political negotiations ahead of a full peace agreement.
Chicago terror suspect pleads guilty
A Chicago man accused of helping scout out the Indian city of Mumbai before the 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead pleads guilty to federal charges.
Report: N. Korea executes former official
North Korea has executed a former senior official after holding him responsible for the country's botched currency reform, a news report said Thursday.
Fake French show has players electrocuting others
A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which participants obey orders to deliver powerful electric shocks to a man until he appears to die.
U.N. nixes ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna
U.S.-backed proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi was rejected by a U.N. wildlife meeting, as nations feared doing so would devastate fishing economies.
Clinton, Russia spar over Iran nuclear plant
 On a visit to Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticizes Russia's plans to start up a nuclear power station in Iran, prompting a defense from a Russian official.
2 freed in probe into kidnapping of British boy
Paris police have freed two suspects detained in the probe into the kidnapping of a 5-year-old British boy in Pakistan, a police official said Thursday.
A slave trade symbol to join U.S. and Cuba
 Days from now, a stately black schooner will sail through a narrow channel into Havana's protected harbor, its two masts bearing the rarest of sights — the U.S. Stars and Stripes, with the Cuban flag fluttering nearby.
First deadly rocket in year hits Israel
 Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel from Gaza, killing a Thai farm worker, while the European Union's foreign affairs chief was visiting the Hamas-controlled enclave.
Poland convicts 3 men in theft of Auschwitz sign
A Polish court convicted three men Thursday of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December.
Greece ups stakes in quest for EU help
 Greece raised the stakes on Thursday in its quest for EU help to tackle its debt crisis, saying it cannot achieve promised deficit cuts if its borrowing costs remain so high and may have to call in the IMF.
Zuma: "substantial" progress in Zimbabwe talks
South African President Jacob Zuma said Thursday he believes he made great progress in his first trip to Zimbabwe as chief mediator between members of the fragile power-sharing government.
Spill threatens Estonia capital's water
A cargo plane made an emergency landing Thursday on the frozen surface of a lake outside Estonia's capital, spilling 1.5 tons of fuel that risked polluting the city's main source of drinking water, authorities said.
Sources: Missile strike kills top al-Qaida leader
A missile strike killed a top al-Qaida leader believed to have been a key player in the suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say.
Sources: Phone snub stalls Mideast talks
 The diplomatic rift between the United States and Israel appeared to widen over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. sources say.
Astronaut and cosmonaut touch down safely
 A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan.
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