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- Bush to announce Iraq plan on Wednesday (AP)
AP - President Bush will address the nation at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday about his new approach for the war in Iraq, the White House said. Bush is expected to announce an increase of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:57:34 am
- Gas-like odor worries workers across NYC (AP)
AP - Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor Monday that wafted over a large part of Manhattan, from Rockefeller Center through Greenwich Village.
posted on January 08, 2007 11:12:10 am
- Court drops Kurd charges against Saddam (AP)
AP - Saddam Hussein's trial for the killing of 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s resumed Monday with the late dictator's seat empty, nine days after he went to the gallows. The court's first order of business was to drop all charges against Saddam.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:39:45 am
- Bird deaths shut down downtown Austin (AP)
AP - Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown Austin early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:59:00 am
- Sudan softens its stance on U.N. troops in Darfur (Reuters)
Reuters - Khartoum has softened its stance on U.N. troops being deployed to Darfur, leaving the door open for blue-helmeted international troops to protect civilians in its vast west, a presidential advisor said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:38:11 am
- Report: Russia halts oil via Belarus (AP)
AP - A senior Russian official said Monday that Russia has been forced to stop delivering oil to Europe via Belarus after disruptions to the flow of exports it blamed on Minsk, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:00:13 am
- Feds OK new inhalable flu vaccine (AP)
AP - A new formulation of an inhalable flu vaccine that can be stored refrigerated instead of frozen won federal approval, its manufacturer said Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:33:41 am
- Van Halen `jumps' into Rock hall (AP)
AP - Van Halen made a "jump" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith.
posted on January 08, 2007 11:07:25 am
- Gates continues push for wired homes (AP)
AP - For more than a decade, Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates and others in the tech industry have touted a vision of a connected lifestyle, in which digital content can move across devices throughout the home and be taken on the go. It's been a slow march. But as Gates kicked off the International Consumer Electronics Show late Sunday, the industry has come further than ever in delivering on that concept.
posted on January 08, 2007 06:56:54 am
- Ohio State vs. Florida on tap tonight (AP)
AP - Ohio State and Florida are set to usher in a new era in college football, one where it doesn't take a bowl to produce a champion. The top-ranked Buckeyes and No. 2 Gators meet Monday night in the first BCS national championship game.
posted on January 08, 2007 06:51:31 am
- NY gas smell shuts trains, forces evacuations (Reuters)
Reuters - The smell of gas throughout much of Manhattan forced the evacuation of buildings and the suspension of a commuter train service on Monday, authorities and media reported.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:40:04 am
- Gunmen ambush airport workers' bus in Baghdad (Reuters)
Reuters - Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying workers to Baghdad airport on Monday, underlining the challenge facing the U.S.-backed government in implementing a new security plan aimed at stemming sectarian bloodshed in the capital.
posted on January 08, 2007 08:34:46 am
- Bush to nominate Khalilzad to U.N. post: White House (Reuters)
Reuters - President George W. Bush will nominate the U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations, the White House said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:58:19 am
- Ferry survivors found adrift 9 days after sinking (Reuters)
Reuters - Fourteen survivors of an Indonesian ferry sinking have been rescued after drifting on a life raft for nine days, surviving on cookies, seaweed and rain water, a rescue official and survivors said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 08:55:19 am
- Pakistan needs to do more on Taliban, U.N. says (Reuters)
Reuters - Pakistan needs to take more action against leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents as required by a U.N. Security Council resolution, a U.N. official said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:11:24 am
- Palestinians free AFP photographer: officials (Reuters)
Reuters - Palestinian militants in Gaza freed a photographer from French news agency Agence France-Presse on Sunday after keeping him captive for almost a week, officials said.
posted on January 07, 2007 09:14:36 pm
- Pope didn't know Warsaw bishop spied, cardinal says (Reuters)
Reuters - The Vatican did not know the former Warsaw archbishop had spied for Poland's former communist regime when Pope Benedict nominated him last month, a senior cardinal was quoted as saying on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 06:55:48 am
- Somali president makes first trip to Mogadishu (Reuters)
Reuters - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf entered Mogadishu on Monday, capping a remarkable turn-around in the capital Islamists ruled for six months until they were ousted before the New Year.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:50:37 am
- Shadow of hanged Saddam looms large over genocide trial (AFP)
AFP - The shadow of Saddam Hussein loomed large over the genocide trial of six former Iraqi regime officials when it resumed, with the executed former dictator's chair conspicuously empty and his purported voice being heard on an audio tape.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:45:23 am
- Emergency crews hunting for possible gas leak in New York (AFP)
AFP - Emergency services in New York City are investigating a possible natural gas leak after receiving hundreds of calls reporting the smell of gas throughout Manhattan.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:50:38 am
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- Bush to announce Iraq plan on Wednesday (AP)
AP - President Bush will address the nation at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday about his new approach for the war in Iraq, the White House said. Bush is expected to announce an increase of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:57:34 am
- Gas-like odor worries workers across NYC (AP)
AP - Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor Monday that wafted over a large part of Manhattan, from Rockefeller Center through Greenwich Village.
posted on January 08, 2007 11:12:10 am
- Court drops Kurd charges against Saddam (AP)
AP - Saddam Hussein's trial for the killing of 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s resumed Monday with the late dictator's seat empty, nine days after he went to the gallows. The court's first order of business was to drop all charges against Saddam.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:39:45 am
- Bird deaths shut down downtown Austin (AP)
AP - Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown Austin early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:59:00 am
- Sudan softens its stance on U.N. troops in Darfur (Reuters)
Reuters - Khartoum has softened its stance on U.N. troops being deployed to Darfur, leaving the door open for blue-helmeted international troops to protect civilians in its vast west, a presidential advisor said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:38:11 am
- Report: Russia halts oil via Belarus (AP)
AP - A senior Russian official said Monday that Russia has been forced to stop delivering oil to Europe via Belarus after disruptions to the flow of exports it blamed on Minsk, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:00:13 am
- Feds OK new inhalable flu vaccine (AP)
AP - A new formulation of an inhalable flu vaccine that can be stored refrigerated instead of frozen won federal approval, its manufacturer said Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:33:41 am
- Van Halen `jumps' into Rock hall (AP)
AP - Van Halen made a "jump" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith.
posted on January 08, 2007 11:07:25 am
- Gates continues push for wired homes (AP)
AP - For more than a decade, Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates and others in the tech industry have touted a vision of a connected lifestyle, in which digital content can move across devices throughout the home and be taken on the go. It's been a slow march. But as Gates kicked off the International Consumer Electronics Show late Sunday, the industry has come further than ever in delivering on that concept.
posted on January 08, 2007 06:56:54 am
- Ohio State vs. Florida on tap tonight (AP)
AP - Ohio State and Florida are set to usher in a new era in college football, one where it doesn't take a bowl to produce a champion. The top-ranked Buckeyes and No. 2 Gators meet Monday night in the first BCS national championship game.
posted on January 08, 2007 06:51:31 am
- NY gas smell shuts trains, forces evacuations (Reuters)
Reuters - The smell of gas throughout much of Manhattan forced the evacuation of buildings and the suspension of a commuter train service on Monday, authorities and media reported.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:40:04 am
- Gunmen ambush airport workers' bus in Baghdad (Reuters)
Reuters - Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying workers to Baghdad airport on Monday, underlining the challenge facing the U.S.-backed government in implementing a new security plan aimed at stemming sectarian bloodshed in the capital.
posted on January 08, 2007 08:34:46 am
- Bush to nominate Khalilzad to U.N. post: White House (Reuters)
Reuters - President George W. Bush will nominate the U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations, the White House said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:58:19 am
- Ferry survivors found adrift 9 days after sinking (Reuters)
Reuters - Fourteen survivors of an Indonesian ferry sinking have been rescued after drifting on a life raft for nine days, surviving on cookies, seaweed and rain water, a rescue official and survivors said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 08:55:19 am
- Pakistan needs to do more on Taliban, U.N. says (Reuters)
Reuters - Pakistan needs to take more action against leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents as required by a U.N. Security Council resolution, a U.N. official said on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 09:11:24 am
- Palestinians free AFP photographer: officials (Reuters)
Reuters - Palestinian militants in Gaza freed a photographer from French news agency Agence France-Presse on Sunday after keeping him captive for almost a week, officials said.
posted on January 07, 2007 09:14:36 pm
- Pope didn't know Warsaw bishop spied, cardinal says (Reuters)
Reuters - The Vatican did not know the former Warsaw archbishop had spied for Poland's former communist regime when Pope Benedict nominated him last month, a senior cardinal was quoted as saying on Monday.
posted on January 08, 2007 06:55:48 am
- Somali president makes first trip to Mogadishu (Reuters)
Reuters - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf entered Mogadishu on Monday, capping a remarkable turn-around in the capital Islamists ruled for six months until they were ousted before the New Year.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:50:37 am
- Shadow of hanged Saddam looms large over genocide trial (AFP)
AFP - The shadow of Saddam Hussein loomed large over the genocide trial of six former Iraqi regime officials when it resumed, with the executed former dictator's chair conspicuously empty and his purported voice being heard on an audio tape.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:45:23 am
- Emergency crews hunting for possible gas leak in New York (AFP)
AFP - Emergency services in New York City are investigating a possible natural gas leak after receiving hundreds of calls reporting the smell of gas throughout Manhattan.
posted on January 08, 2007 10:50:38 am
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- Virginia Man Among Four Kidnapped in Iraq (AP)
AP - Al-Jazeera broadcast video Tuesday of four Western peace activists held hostage by a previously unknown group, part of a new wave of kidnappings police fear is aimed at disrupting next month's elections.
posted on November 29, 2005 06:22:34 pm
- Bush: Early Iraq Exit Would Be a Mistake (AP)
AP - President Bush said Tuesday a U.S. military pullout from Iraq would be a terrible mistake, beginning a new push defending his embattled war policy. His Pentagon chief said, "Quitting is not an exit strategy."
posted on November 29, 2005 06:16:49 pm
- Va. Gov. Grants Clemency for Condemned Man (AP)
AP - Virginia's governor on Tuesday spared the life of a convicted killer who would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:43:12 pm
- Bush Cites Tools to Fight Illegal Immigration (AP)
AP - President Bush on Tuesday watched border patrol techniques ranging from men on horseback to infrared cameras that help keep watch in the dark, and he said the country needs more of both to keep out illegal immigrants.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:59:49 pm
- Death row: Does personal reform count? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Exactly 229 death-row inmates have been granted clemency since the United States reinstated capital punishment in 1976, and the list of reasons is short. The 16 governors who have given such pardons cited just three reasons: lingering doubt about guilt, a governor's own philosophical opposition to the death penalty, and mental disability of the accused.
posted on November 29, 2005 02:00:00 am
- Calif. Store Clerk Found Safe After Kidnap (AP)
AP - First, a liquor store was vandalized by a gang of men in suits and bow ties for selling alcohol to blacks. Then, days later, the store clerk was kidnapped, and the business was burned down.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:56:05 pm
- Possible Miniature Solar System Discovered (AP)
AP - Astronomers peering through ground- and space-based telescopes have discovered what they believe is the birth of the smallest known solar system.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:51:01 pm
- Michael, Partner to Seal Relationship (AP)
AP - George Michael said Tuesday that he and his longtime partner will make their relationship official under new British legislation offering gays many of the legal protections available to married couples.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:53:11 pm
- Big Easy Launches Free Wireless System (AP)
AP - To help boost its stalled economy, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is offering the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:52:45 pm
- Super Bowl Would Be 'Perfect' for Colts (AP)
AP - Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts would define perfection as winning a Super Bowl title. Anything more would be a bonus.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:51:57 pm
- Milestone execution stopped (Reuters)
Reuters - Virginia Gov. Mark Warner on Tuesday halted the execution of a convicted murderer who would have been the 1,000th person put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
posted on November 29, 2005 05:35:41 pm
- Vatican edict on gays divides U.S. Catholics (Reuters)
Reuters - The Vatican's tougher stand on homosexuality has divided American Catholics, with some welcoming it as a renewal of a Church plagued by scandal and others warning it would further alienate Catholic leaders.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:48:10 pm
- Video shows 4 Western hostages (Reuters)
Reuters - Four Western hostages labeled "spies of the occupation" were shown in a video aired on Tuesday as a spate of abductions took Iraq back to the dire security conditions foreigners faced from hostage-takers last year.
posted on November 29, 2005 03:54:31 pm
- Army aims to coax back former troops (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. Army, fresh off missing its latest annual recruiting goal, has launched an unprecedented effort to coax former troops to sign up again for active-duty military service, officials said on Tuesday.
posted on November 29, 2005 04:57:25 pm
- White House says troop reductions should be coming (Reuters)
Reuters - The White House said on Tuesday Iraqi forces should be sufficiently trained to allow reduced U.S. troop levels in Iraq next year, but President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it would be a huge mistake to pull them out now.
posted on November 29, 2005 04:11:28 pm
- Bush to lay out Iraq victory strategy (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush was to unveil a "strategy for victory in Iraq" on Wednesday, hoping to convince a skeptical US public two and a half years after the war began that he has a plan to end it.
posted on November 29, 2005 06:10:11 pm
- Ten dead, 21 seriously hurt in Bangladesh's first suicide bombings (AFP)
AFP - Ten people were killed and 21 badly injured in what police said were Bangladesh's first suicide bombings and the latest in a string of attacks by Islamic extremists.
posted on November 29, 2005 03:52:51 pm
- Gabon's 38-year president Bongo re-elected (AFP)
AFP - Gabon's President Omar Bongo, who has been in power since 1967, was re-elected for seven more years after winning 79.2 percent of the votes cast in weekend election, officials said.
posted on November 29, 2005 06:27:16 pm
- Canada sets January 23 vote after government ousted (AFP)
AFP - Canadians will head to the polls on January 23 after the longest election campaign in decades, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced, after his scandal-tainted minority government was ousted in a no-confidence vote.
posted on November 29, 2005 12:28:33 pm
- Crippling budget crisis looms at UN as US forces reform issue (AFP)
AFP - The United Nations will face a crippling financial crisis if Washington manages to stall the organization's two-year budget until management reforms are agreed.
posted on November 29, 2005 07:56:27 pm
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