The Bulletin, Bend / Central Oregon News

U.N. climate chief, once a rising star, faces scrutiny

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

Just over two years ago, Rajendra Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of....MORE

Seeking national glory in one souped-up boat

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

VALENCIA, Spain — USA-17, the challenger for the America's Cup, and Alinghi 5, the defender,....MORE

China fund discloses $9.6 billion in shares in U.S. companies

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

SHANGHAI — China’s sovereign wealth fund quietly bought more than $9 billion worth of....MORE

Pakistan retakes key town from Taliban

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani military has retaken the key town of Damadola, in the Bajaur area....MORE

Ex-general arrested by Sri Lankan army

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

NEW DELHI — The retired general who sought unsuccessfully to defeat his one-time ally in Sri....MORE

Paperwork ties up medical evacuations of Haitian children

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Private medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian children to ....MORE

In Ukraine vote, a model for Russia

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

KIEV, Ukraine — The apparent victory of Russia’s preferred candidate in the Ukrainian....MORE

Afghan soldiers to play a big role in upcoming offensive, NATO says

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

CAMP SHORABAK, Afghanistan — Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U. S. and NATO....MORE

Call again raised for Iran sanctions

February 9, 2010 4:00 am

PARIS — Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency on Monday that it would begin....MORE

A well-written war, told in the first person

February 8, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an....MORE

Iraq court given time to review candidates

February 8, 2010 4:00 am

BAGHDAD — Iraq staggered toward a resolution of its election crisis on Sunday as the....MORE

Missionaries in Haiti say they were misled

February 8, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Divisions emerged within the group of 10 Americans jailed in Haiti on ....MORE

Victory claim disputed in Ukraine

February 8, 2010 4:00 am

KIEV, Ukraine — Pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych declared victory in....MORE

Defying the West, Iran’s president ups uranium enrichment

February 8, 2010 4:00 am

ROME AND BEIRUT — In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran’s political woes,....MORE

Gates scoffs at claim that Iran nuclear deal is near

February 7, 2010 4:00 am

MUNICH — As Iran’s foreign minister met with the chief of the United Nations’....MORE

Orphanages of Haiti offer bleak portrait

February 7, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The floors were concrete, and the windows were broken. There was no....MORE

U.S. missile plan for Romania greeted with a chill in Russia

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

MOSCOW — Russian officials reacted coolly on Friday to the news that Romania had agreed to....MORE

British politicians face charges on expenses

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

LONDON — In the latest twist of a scandal that has stained the reputation of British....MORE

North Korea to release U.S. missionary

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Friday that it will release an American missionary it....MORE

Explosions kill at least 27 Iraqi pilgrims

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

BAGHDAD — At least two explosions tore through crowds marching to the burial place of Shiite....MORE

Chiquita faces suit over Colombian murders

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

Chiquita Brands, owner of the namesake banana label, must face a lawsuit accusing it of helping....MORE

Britain, Ireland hail breakthrough

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

LONDON — Ending months of dispute that threatened to bring down Northern Ireland’s....MORE

Greece’s struggles may reverberate

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

As Greece maneuvers to avoid an economic collapse, a series of roadblocks in coming weeks could....MORE

In hospital’s ruins, one weary Haitian fights rising TB crisis

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At a fly-infested clinic hastily erected alongside the rubble of the....MORE

12-year-old maid’s suspect death symbolizes plight of Pakistani poor

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

LAHORE, Pakistan — The death already seemed like a bitter injustice. A maid died after....MORE

Report: Many failures helped rebels overrun Afghan base

February 6, 2010 4:00 am

KABUL — Delays in closing a remote U. S. military outpost in eastern Afghanistan increased the ....MORE

Panel delays Iraqi parliament races

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s independent elections commission announced Thursday that the....MORE

In Mexico, drug cartels co-opt rehab for recruits

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico’s powerful drug cartels have been operating drug....MORE

Protests fuel fears in Greek debt crisis

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

ATHENS, Greece — Tax and customs inspectors took to the streets of Greece on Thursday at the....MORE

North Korea appears to ease crackdown

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

SEOUL, South Korea — Facing food shortages, severe price increases and social unrest, North....MORE

Britain introduces shatterproof pint glass

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

LONDON — Soon, Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses....MORE

U.S. military scrutinizes its commanders in Afghanistan

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

The U. S. military has reprimanded an unusually large number of commanders for battlefield failures....MORE

Saving tiny toads raises complex issues

The toads are extinct in the wild; restoring them to their 5-acre range will take a significant effort ... too much for one species?

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

This is a story about a waterfall, the World Bank and 4,000 homeless toads. Maybe the story will....MORE

Google asks NSA to look into attacks

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has turned to the National Security Agency for technical assistance to ....MORE

10 Americans charged in Haiti with kidnapping

February 5, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Ten U. S. Baptist missionaries were charged with kidnapping Thursday....MORE

Rebuilding in Haiti turns from tents to DIY homes

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Shifting tactics in the race to shelter an estimated 1 million....MORE

Sudan’s leader could face genocide charges

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan came under new legal scrutiny Wednesday when appeals....MORE

Zuma says he fathered child out of wedlock

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

JOHANNESBURG — South African President Jacob Zuma confirmed Wednesday that he fathered a....MORE

EU backs Greek plan to cut budget deficit

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s plan to cut the biggest budget deficit in the European Union....MORE

Allied troops are set for assault on Taliban

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — U. S. Marines and the Afghan army plan a substantial assault....MORE

Iran says it launched rocket carrying animals into space

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

TEHRAN — Iran said it successfully fired a new, domestically produced research rocket into....MORE

Al-Maliki disputes Iraqi court ruling that overturns ban on candidates

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s political crisis deepened Wednesday after an appeals court overturned....MORE

Blast draws attention to U.S. role in Pakistan

February 4, 2010 4:00 am

SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan — The deaths of three American special operations soldiers in a roadside ....MORE

Israel rebukes 2 in attack on U.N. compound

February 2, 2010 4:00 am

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military confirmed on Monday that it had reprimanded two senior....MORE

Baptists knew taking kids was wrong, Haitian PM says

February 2, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s prime minister said Monday that 10 Americans who tried....MORE

Trial to open in Concorde crash

February 2, 2010 4:00 am

PARIS — Nearly 10 years after a Concorde jet crashed on take-off from Charles de Gaulle....MORE

Taliban chief’s reported death a blow to group

February 2, 2010 4:00 am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The reported death of the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, a violent....MORE

Judge implicates Italy in cleric’s abduction

February 2, 2010 4:00 am

ROME — The Italian secret service was most likely aware of, “and perhaps complicit in,....MORE

Female bomber kills at least 54 in Iraq

February 2, 2010 4:00 am

BAGHDAD — A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives inside a way station for Shiite....MORE

In the Taliban, U.S. Marines find evolving foes

February 2, 2010 4:00 am

KARARDAR, Afghanistan — The U. S. Marine infantry company, accompanied by a squad of Afghan....MORE

analysis

U.S. arms for Taiwan send Beijing a message

After a year, White House is starting to push back

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — For the past year, China has adopted an increasingly muscular position toward....MORE

Taliban leader thought killed in U.S. strike

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Reports circulated Sunday that Hakimullah Mehsud, the top leader of....MORE

Slain Hamas commander helped smuggle arms into Gaza, officials say

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

JERUSALEM — A Hamas military commander slain in a Dubai hotel room played a key role in....MORE

an ancient celebration in iran

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

An Iranian Zoroastrian priest sets fire to a prepared pile of wood as Zoroastrians gather in a....MORE

Militants to end cease-fire in Nigeria

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

DAKAR, Senegal — A militant group’s announcement that it was ending a cease-fire in....MORE

Cleric admits meeting bomb plot suspect

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

SAN’A, Yemen — Anwar al-Awlaki, the fugitive U. S.-born cleric accused of terrorist ties,....MORE

Gunmen attack party in Mexico, killing 13

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

MEXICO CITY — More than a dozen gunmen sealed off a street in the violent border city of....MORE

Little consensus as economic forum ends

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

DAVOS, Switzerland — The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders....MORE

Scores detained as police break up protests in Russia

February 1, 2010 4:00 am

MOSCOW — Russian police broke up anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Sunday,....MORE

China leading race to make clean energy

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United....MORE

Toyota officials unworried — in Japan, at least

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

TOKYO — Some of the same Toyota models recalled in the U. S., Europe and China are on Japanese ....MORE

What do Haitians really need?

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — How do you find out what the Haitian people really need now, nearly....MORE

U.S. troops welcome in Haiti, for now

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Young men gripping a steel fence along Port-au-Prince’s....MORE

U.S. beefing up missile defenses in Persian Gulf

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

The Obama administration is accelerating the deployment of a series of new defenses against....MORE

Iran's opposition calls for massive rally next week

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

Leaders of Iran’s opposition movement and the country’s hard-line establishment....MORE

China threatens sanctions for Taiwan weapons deal

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

BEIJING — The Chinese announced Saturday a series of harsh retaliatory measures in protest of ....MORE

World Economic Forum

Leaders in Davos fight to regain public trust

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

DAVOS, Switzerland — If there was one takeaway from the annual gathering of business and....MORE

Analysis

America’s new hope: the Afghan tribes

January 31, 2010 4:00 am

For three decades now, communism, civil war and Islamic fundamentalism have laid siege to....MORE

China angered as U.S. OKs arms sale to Taiwan

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has approved an arms sale to Taiwan worth more than $6....MORE

Bin Laden blames U.S. on climate change

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida, blamed the United States and developed countries for not....MORE

Israel considers new inquiry into army

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

JERUSALEM — Even as it defended its handling of last year’s military offensive in the....MORE

U.N. envoy met Taliban to discuss talks

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

KABUL — Members of the Taliban met with a U. N. official this month to discuss the possibility ....MORE

In Afghanistan, U.S. troops invest in goodwill projects

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

BOGRABAD, Afghanistan — Abdul Salam, an elder in this impoverished Afghan village, rose to....MORE

Clinton attempts to nudge China on Iran sanctions

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

PARIS — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned China on Friday that it would face economic ....MORE

There to help, but finding it hard to do

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Capt. Edward Kim and his 100 troops camp out on what was the tennis....MORE

Teams of specialists created to track down terror plots

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — The nation’s main counterterrorism center is creating new teams of....MORE

Former British PM Blair fights for his legacy as he defends Iraq war amid angry outbursts

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

LONDON — He was right and he’d do it again. That was Tony Blair’s message Friday....MORE

Haitians tire of waiting, start their own rebuilding

January 30, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Defying pleas to wait for Haiti’s reconstruction, families....MORE

Mother of rescued girl never gave up hope

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — She is amazing her doctors, the 16-year-old choir girl who came close ....MORE

Tensions between Dominicans, Haitians ease after earthquake

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Like almost anyone from Hispaniola, the island uncomfortably shared....MORE

As the aftershocks continue, Haiti ponders how to rebuild

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than two weeks after the earthquake that devastated much of this ....MORE

Former French premier acquitted of charges

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy of France suffered a significant political setback on....MORE

Olive branch from Iranian opposition goes unrequited

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

CAIRO — Furthering a trend that has been visible for several weeks now, a prominent Iranian....MORE

India hopes new roads pave way to prosperity

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

KARORI VILLAGE, India — The old, potholed road was a source of endless traffic jams and....MORE

Cyberattack threat on rise, executives say

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

A study based on responses from 600 computing and computer-security executives in 14 countries....MORE

Opposition to 9/11 trial increases in New York City

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — As a growing chorus of New York politicians joined the opposition to a Manhattan ....MORE

Karzai plan to reach out to Taliban shows a divide with allies

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

LONDON — Afghanistan’s president declared Thursday that reaching out to the....MORE

China passes U.S. as Saudi Aramco buyer

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest crude producer, is exporting about 1 million barrels a day....MORE

Greek corruption hampers recovery from fiscal crisis

January 29, 2010 4:00 am

ATHENS, Greece — When Aris Kefalogiannis started his olive oil company in Athens more than a....MORE

Swiss back away from agreement with U.S.

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

The Swiss government on Wednesday backed off an agreement with the United States that required it....MORE

Sarkozy: G20 must lead crackdown on banks

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

DAVOS, Switzerland — Banks must be reined in and regulations overhauled, but no country can....MORE

Sri Lankans re-elect President Rajapaksa

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa swept to a second term in office, ....MORE

Clinton says Yemen must earn aid

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

LONDON — Senior officials from the U. S. and 19 other countries gathered here on Wednesday to....MORE

Honduras’ former leader begins exile

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya left his refuge in the....MORE

Haiti earthquake

Girl’s rescue offers rare moment of joy in battered Port-au-Prince

‘She’s very dehydrated, but she will be fine,’ rescuer says of 17-year-old

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Fifteen days after an earthquake devastated this nation, a teenage....MORE

In Afghanistan, Pashtun tribe signs pact to fight the Taliban

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The leaders of one of the largest Pashtun tribes in a Taliban....MORE

Government of Northern Ireland given ultimatum to reach deal

British, Irish premiers grow impatient as negotiations fall apart

January 28, 2010 4:00 am

LONDON — Talks aimed at preventing the collapse of the power-sharing government in Northern....MORE