Iran's president concedes oil prices hurt economy
By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has acknowledged publicly for the first time that tumbling oil prices are hurting Iran's fragile economy, a sensitive subject for the leader critics ha ...
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Zimbabwe police charge into protesting doctors
By ANGUS SHAW
Associated Press Writer
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe's deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said Wednesday as deaths rose sharply from a cholera ep ...
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Pirates fire on US cruise ship in hijack attempt
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY
Associated Press Writer
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international ...
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Nations sign cluster-bomb ban,US and Russia refuse
By DOUG MELLGREN
Associated Press Writer
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Nations began signing a treaty banning cluster bombs Wednesday in a move that supporters hope will shame the U.S., Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons bl ...
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Thai airports reopens after PM ousted by court
By MICK ELMORE
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- The first commercial flight in a week arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday as anti-government protesters ended their siege of the country's two main airports, declaring victory after Tha ...
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Rice arrives in India in wake of Mumbai attacks
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ
Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan must show "resolve and urgency" as she called Wednesday for international cooperation in the investigation into the Mumbai attacks
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Cruise ship passengers surprised by pirate attack
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT
Associated Press Writer
MUSCAT, Oman (AP) -- Passengers on a luxury cruise liner attacked by pirates in the dangerous waters between Yemen and Somalia said Wednesday they were surprised by the assailants' boldness and descri ...
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Iraq's president steps up row over PM's councils
By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's president is going to the country's federal court to try to stop Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from establishing tribal councils -- a move that major political parties fear is aim ...
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Gloom returns to world markets after US plunge
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) -- Gloom and volatility returned to Asian and European markets Tuesday as investors dumped stocks following huge overnight losses on Wall Street and dismal U.S. economic reports revived fears ...
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Court dissolves Thai government for election fraud
By AMBIKA AHUJA
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- The Constitutional Court dissolved Thailand's top three ruling parties for electoral fraud Tuesday and temporarily barred the prime minister from politics, bringing down a gove ...
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Thailand shuts down second airport
By VIJAY JOSHI
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thai authorities shut down Bangkok's second airport Thursday after it was overrun by anti-government protesters, completely cutting off the capital from air traffic as the prime minister reject ...
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Civilians flee as Congo rebels attack militia
By ANITA POWELL
Associated Press Writer
GOMA, Congo (AP) -- A rebel offensive to expel some of the perpetrators of Rwanda's 1994 genocide forced more than 3,000 civilians to flee eastern Congo to neighboring Uganda in a single day, the insurgents ...
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