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Bin Laden to release new message about Israel and Palestinians, website says

Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:56 +0000

NEW YORK - Osama bin Laden, who has threatened to extend al-Qaida's terror to Israel, will release a new Internet message dealing with Israelis and Palestinians, a terrorism monitoring group said Thur...

Obama picks up heavyweight support, leaves Clinton further behind

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:06:58 +0000

WASHINGTON - It's the gift that keeps on giving. Barack Obama picked up more heavyweight support Thursday after a key endorsement this week delivered another blow to Hillary Clinton's longshot camp...

Landlord charged with trying to kill Brooklyn tenant

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:31:05 +0000

NEW YORK - A landlord has been indicted after prosecutors say he planted a homemade bomb to try to kill a tenant he wanted to evict from a commercial building in Brooklyn. The tenant lost a leg in ...

Obama attacks Bush for linking him to Nazi appeasers; White House denies it

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:30:40 +0000

WASHINGTON - Democratic front-runner Barack Obama accused President George W. Bush of launching a "sad" and "false" political attack on him Thursday by saying those in favour of negotiating with terro...

McCain predicts victory in Iraq, bin Laden removed by 2013 if he's president

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:31:06 +0000

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, but he rejected suggestions his talk of a timetable put him on the same side a...

Feuding Lebanese factions reach deal to elect army chief as president

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:10:13 +0000

BEIRUT - The Hezbollah-led opposition and U.S.-backed government reached a deal Thursday to end Lebanon's worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war, now that the cabinet has reversed measures aimed a...

China quake toll could reach 50,000; daunting recovery for millions affected

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:10:23 +0000

LUOSHUI TOWN, China - Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere as priorities began shifting Thursday in China from the hunt for su...

Man appears in Florida court, concedes he may have accidentally sparked fire

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:38:41 +0000

PALM BAY, Fla. - A man accused of lobbing a Molotov cocktail into one small part of a large area of woods that burned along Florida's Atlantic coast conceded Thursday that he may have accidentally spa...

Storms kill 1 in southern United States, damage Texas state capitol

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:38:47 +0000

NEW ORLEANS - Severe storms with damaging winds and possible tornadoes pounded the South, killing at least one person in Louisiana and shattering windows at the Texas state capitol. In the southern...

Bush leaves it to Israeli prime minister to push Mideast peace

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:58:24 +0000

JERUSALEM - U.S. President George W. Bush gently urged Mideast leaders to "make the hard choices necessary for peace," leaving it to embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand before a divi...

Iran calls UN sanctions illegal, offers a proposal for talks

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:48:39 +0000

VIENNA, Austria - Iran's new offer for international talks touches on a broad range of topics, but fails to address UN Security Council calls for Tehran to give up uranium enrichment, according to a c...

Long wait for medical care adds pain, suffering for China quake survivors

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:40:50 +0000

DEYANG, China - After 11-year-old Zhang Jiazhi crawled free of the rubble that remained of his middle school, his parents began a 20-hour ordeal to get medical care for their son, whose arms were crus...

Clashes lead UN to pull its civilian staff from Sudan oil area

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:40:20 +0000

KHARTOUM, Sudan - The United Nations said Thursday it had evacuated 250 civilian staff from the town of Abyei following three days of clashes in the oil-rich region between Sudan's army and former sou...

Flight attendant accused of setting fire on Minneapolis-Saskatchewan flight

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:40:46 +0000

FARGO, N.D. - A 19-year-old flight attendant is accused of setting a fire aboard a commercial airplane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo, North Dakota. Eder Rojas, of Woodbury, ...

Kenya charges 2 Chinese citizens after ivory tusks found in luggage

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:41:02 +0000

NAIROBI, Kenya - Police charged a Chinese man and woman with illegally possessing about 110 kilograms of ivory and trying to fly it out of Kenya, an officer said Thursday. Shubo Liang and Tao Gu pl...