Police targeted in N. Ireland bomb attack

A car carrying a 400-pound bomb was driven through barriers at police headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, crashing into a building, police said Sunday.

Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday. Port-au-Prince’s north pier, the larger of the two, remains unstable.

A tsunami warning for the South Pacific was called off hours after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake was recorded near American Samoa, and at least 17 deaths were reported.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused to press Libya to pay compensation to the victims of IRA bombings, rejecting the pleas of a top human rights lawyer, previously secret letters released Sunday by Brown’s office show.

At least 100 British troops are likely to return to Iraq, a few months after the country withdrew its service members from their bases in and around the southern city of Basra.

Days after a court allowed him entry into Britain, controversial Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders said his arrival Friday marked “a victory for the freedom of speech.”

The Colombian Constitutional Court ruled Friday against holding a referendum that could have cleared the way for President Alvaro Uribe to run for a third consecutive term.

At least 15 people were killed and 13 others wounded Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a hotel basement in central Afghanistan, the provincial police chief said.

No dangerous viruses or chemicals were found in the samples from a series of syringe stabbings that recently triggered unrest in China’s western city of Urumqi, state-run media reported.

Given all their country and people have been through, between political upheavals, human rights abuses, hurricanes, abject poverty and last week’s earthquake, “If Haitians were constantly questioning their faith, they would all be atheists.”

Tropical Storm Jimena lost more of its punch late Wednesday, after hitting Mexico’s Baja California peninsula as a Category 1 hurricane, forecasters said.

A human rights group says more than half of the Palestinians killed during Israel’s three-week offensive against Hamas in Gaza earlier this year were civilians, contradicting an Israeli military claim.

Three American soldiers were among at least seven people killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb struck a convoy on its way to a girls school opening in northwest Pakistan.

The death toll from the mudslides on the Italian island of Sicily now stands at 21, the head of Italian Civil Protection said Saturday.

Authorities in Northern Ireland said Friday they were investigating an explosion in east Belfast that injured one woman.