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Afghanistan: Blasts explode at Kandahar police HQ

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:46:37 +0000

KANDAHAR - Afghan police say two blasts have gone off at the police headquarters in Kandahar. Casualties are feared. Police officer Nematullah Khan says it isn't clear what triggered today's bla...

Hong Kong votes in legislative races

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:35:22 +0000

HONG KONG - Hong Kong voters went to the polls Sunday in legislative elections that threatened to set back the opposition camp and its push for democratic reform in the Chinese-ruled territory. Ord...

Hurricane Ike near Turks and Caicos; Cuba braces

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:25:37 +0000

MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the large eye of an "extremely dangerous" hurricane Ike is lurking "near or over" the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm. The ...

Taiwan cancels moon festival barbecues to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:25:43 +0000

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Several local governments in Taiwan say they are cancelling traditional barbecues at the upcoming moon festival to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yang Hsiao-tung, spokesman ...

Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:25:37 +0000

GONAIVES, Haiti - Hundreds of people fled the waterlogged city Gonaives on Saturday for higher ground as powerful hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a pre...

Tropical storm Lowell forms off southwestern Mexico

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:25:45 +0000

MIAMI - The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said tropical storm Lowell has formed off Mexico's southwestern Pacific coast. The centre said late Saturday at about 11 p.m. ET that Lowell took...

Hurricane Ike threatens Turks and Caicos islands

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:22:26 +0000

KEY WEST, Fla. - Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it roared on an uncertain path that forced millions from the Caribbean to Florida and Louisiana to Mexico, to nervously wo...

Cuba declines U.S. offer of disaster assessment after Gustav

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:08:26 +0000

HAVANA - Cuba declined a U.S. offer to send a disaster-assessment team to the island after hurricane Gustav, saying Saturday it would rather Washington suspend restrictions on travel and the sale of f...

Alaska legislator accused of 'politicizing' Palin investigation

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:52:22 +0000

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Democratic Alaska legislator leading an investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of her public safety commissioner should be removed because he appears to be manipulatin...

U.S. judge splits decision in Aquash slaying

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:27:07 +0000

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A U.S. federal magistrate told prosecutors to turn over a few more details in the case against a Canadian man charged with a 1975 killing but ruled against John Graham in his reque...

Inquiry ordered after data on 5,000 British prison guards lost

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:49:29 +0000

LONDON - Britain's Justice Secretary Jack Straw said he's ordered an inquiry after a computer hard drive with personal details of 5,000 prison officers was lost. Straw said the hard drive has been ...

German Foreign Minister Steinmeier to run for chancellor next year: reports

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:49:34 +0000

BERLIN - German news media say Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be the Social Democratic party's candidate for chancellor in 2009. Der Spiegel magazine and the Berlin newspaper Berline...

Honduran court issues 1,051-year sentence in 2003 prison massacre

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:04:29 +0000

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A Honduran court has sentenced a former prison official to 1,051 years in jail for the deaths of 69 people in a 2003 prison massacre. The three-judge panel announced its lar...

High-resolution Earth-imaging satellite launched from California

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:43:52 +0000

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite has been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast. A Delta 2 rocket carrying the GeoEye-1 sa...

Bhutto widower Zardari sweeps Pakistan presidential election

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:21:38 +0000

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Is...