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Colombians walk next to a destroyed bridge that crosses into Colombia's Norte de Santander department (near end), in Ragonvalia November 19, 2009. Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident to stoke a diplomatic dispute between the Andean neighbors. REUTERS/Manuel Hernandez

Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

Reuters - 2 hours, 43 minutes ago

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite its neighbor's aggressive rhetoric and dynamiting of two border bridges, Colombia's defense minister said on Friday.

  • Shi Ming Yi, a high-living Buddhist monk who ran one of Singapore's most well-known charities has been jailed for 10 months for fraud, according to court officials. Photo:/AFP
    High-living Singapore monk jailed for fraud AFP - 19 minutes ago

    SINGAPORE (AFP) - A high-living Buddhist monk who ran one of Singapore's most well-known charities was Saturday jailed for 10 months for fraud, court officials said.

  • A city worker is seen reading the paper in the shade during a hot day in Sydney. Australia is facing its worst fire danger in four years, with hotter and windier conditions and earlier than normal outbreaks forecast, according to government analysis published this week. Photo:Greg Wood/AFP
    Australia issues 'catastrophic' alerts as fires rage AFP - 24 minutes ago

    SYDNEY (AFP) - "Catastrophic" alerts have been issued in Australia after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said on Saturday.

  • VIDEO: European leaders have chosen a low-profile pair to lead a revamped EU. The pick of Belgium's premier, Herman Van Rompuy, as president and EU Commissioner Catherine Ashton as the top diplomat came at a summit of the 27 EU heads of state and government. Duration: 02:21 Photo:/AFP
    EU leaders face flak as new president keeps low profile AFP - 26 minutes ago

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - Incoming EU president Herman Van Rompuy kept a low profile as the 27-nation bloc's leaders faced flak for picking him and a little-known British peer to lead a revamped Europe on the world stage.

  • File picture shows miners in a small mining town in China's Shanxi province. An explosion at a mine in northeast China early Saturday has killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Photo:Peter Parks/AFP
    31 dead, 82 trapped ain China mine blast: media AFP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    BEIJING (AFP) - A gas explosion at a mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said.

  • Mourners attend the funeral of one of the Fort Hood shooting victims. US Army Major Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people earlier this month at Fort Hood, Texas, intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric just months before the shootings and began discussing with him surreptitious financial transfers, The Washington Post reported Saturday Photo:David Banks/AFP
    Fort Hood shooter talked with radical cleric: report AFP - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Army Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, intensified contacts with a radical Yemeni American cleric just months before the shootings and began discussing surreptitious financial transfers, The Washington Post reported Saturday.


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