2 students shot, wounded at Thai protest rally
By AMBIKA AHUJA
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thai police warned students Friday to avoid street protests after a gunman shot and wounded two students demonstrating against the embattled prime minister, raising new fears of vi ...
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Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city
By JONATHAN M. KATZ
Associated Press Writer
GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) -- The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians ...
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Cheney offers US backing for Georgia's NATO bid
By MARIA DANILOVA
Associated Press Writer
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney insisted that Georgia will join NATO and backed its attempts to rebuild from its war with Russia on Thursday, using a trip to former Soviet republics as a ...
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Rice set to make history in Libya
By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- When Condoleezza Rice spends a few hours in Libya and shakes hands with Moammar Gadhafi, she will close a nearly three-decade era of bitter animosity between the United States and the North Afric ...
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Pakistan lawmakers to choose Musharraf replacement
By PAUL ALEXANDER
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The real question in Pakistan's presidential election is not who the winner will be but whether the new leader will be any more successful than his predecessor in tackling ...
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Hanna takes aim at Bahamas, Ike next in line
By MIKE MELIA
Associated Press Writer
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Tropical Storm Hanna roared past the edge of the Bahamas on Thursday ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti.
Hurricane Ike, a sti ...
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Iraq to open Saddam abuse museum at Abu Ghraib
By BUSHRA JUHI
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a facelift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes -- but not the abuses committed there by U.S. gua ...
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Pakistani parliament condemns US-led attack
By NAHAL TOOSI
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Parliament passed resolutions Thursday condemning an American-led attack in Pakistani territory after the government summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest the unusually bold raid t ...
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Hanna takes aim at Bahamas, Ike next in line
By MIKE MELIA
Associated Press Writer
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- While officials from Nassau to South Carolina were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Hanna, behind it, Hurricane Ike was gaining strength as it lumbered across the Atlantic as a powerful ...
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Thailand suggests referendum on crisis
By AMBIKA AHUJA
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thailand's Cabinet agreed Thursday to hold a referendum on a civic group's street campaign to oust the prime minister, which has paralyzed the government for the last 10 days and raised fe ...
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Zardari says global terror Pakistan's priority
By NAHAL TOOSI
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan stands with the U.S. against international terrorism, the Muslim nation's presidential front-runner wrote in a column appearing Thursday amid furor over a U.S.-led cross- ...
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TV official: US military arrests cameraman in Iraq
By HAMID AHMED
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The U.S. military arrested an Iraqi cameraman and three of his family members Thursday during a raid on their home in Baghdad, an official with Baghdad TV said.
The arrest comes two day ...
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Cheney slams Russia for war against Georgia
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney condemned Russia on Thursday for what he called an "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to change Georgia's borders by force.
Speaking during a closely watched trip to this U.S.-allied South Cauca ...
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South Ossetia says Russia intends to absorb region
By YURAS KARMANAU
Associated Press Writer
TSKHINVALI, Georgia (AP) -- Russia intends to eventually absorb Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, a South Ossetian official said Friday, three days after Moscow recognized the region as i ...
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A hurricane again, Gustav moves through Caymans
By MAURA AXELROD
Associated Press Writer
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) -- Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday and moved through the Cayman Islands, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category- ...
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Thai protesters push police off premier's compound
By SUTIN WANNABOVORN
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thai anti-government protesters occupying the grounds of the prime minister's office forced several hundred policemen off the compound early Friday and promised more actio ...
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Karadzic to enter pleas on war crimes charges
By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will either refuse to enter pleas or plead not guilty Friday at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to 11 charges including genoc ...
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Gustav heads to open water after swamping Jamaica
By HOWARD CAMPBELL
Associated Press Writer
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- The spinning core of Gustav was expected to move back over open water Friday, a day after bearing down on southern Jamaica.
The tropical storm hit Jamaica on Thursday after ...
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Putin: US orchestrated conflict in Georgia
By STEVE GUTTERMAN
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of instigating the fighting in Georgia and said he suspects a connection to the U.S. presidential campaign -- a cont ...
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US, Russia anchor military ships in Georgian ports
By SERGEI GRITS and JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press Writers
BATUMI, Georgia (AP) -- A U.S. military ship loaded with aid docked at a southern Georgian port Wednesday, and Russia sent three missile boats to another Georgian port as the standoff es ...
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