Archive By Section - Associated Press
TOKYO - Japan's chronically unpopular prime minister abruptly resigned Monday after a yearlong struggle with a deadlocked parliament, leaving the weakened ruling party to grapple with a stalled economy and rising calls for snap elections.
September 16, 2008
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By JOSEPH COLEMAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's army claimed Monday to have routed Taliban militants in a stronghold near the Afghan border but turned up no sign of Osama bin Laden or al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
September 16, 2008
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By ZARAR KHAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
SAHARSA DISTRICT, India - Indian authorities rushed doctors and medical equipment to flood-devastated northern India on Monday to ward off outbreaks of disease among the hundreds of thousands of victims crowding relief camps, officials said.
September 16, 2008
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Associated Press
MUNICH, Germany - For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have?
September 16, 2008
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By MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer
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Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Russia warned the West on Monday against supporting Georgia's leadership, suggesting that the United States carried weapons as well as aid to the ex-Soviet republic and calling for an arms embargo until the Georgian government falls.
September 16, 2008
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By ROBERT WIELAARD
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan opened an investigation Monday into the killings of five women who tried to choose their own husbands, after a provincial lawmaker defended their deaths as a ''centuries-old tradition.''
September 16, 2008
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By ASIF SHAHZAD
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
MOSCOW - More than 1,000 angry mourners turned the funeral for a journalist critical of Russia's government into a demonstration Monday, accusing police of lying when they said he was accidentally shot by an officer.
September 16, 2008
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By MANSUR MIROVALEV
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A bomb blast blamed on separatist Tamil Tigers wounded 45 people in Sri Lanka's capital Saturday, while renewed fighting in the embattled north killed 19 rebels and six soldiers, the military said.
September 14, 2008
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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's prime minister vowed Saturday that he would not resign even as pressure mounted with anti-government protesters occupying his headquarters for a fifth day Saturday and disrupting rail and air service.
September 14, 2008
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By SUTIN WANNABOVORN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
SAHARSA, India - The deluge came and turned his world to water, so Umesh Kushyaha decided to build a boat.
September 14, 2008
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By GAVIN RABINOWITZ
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
PUERTO NUEVO, Ecuador - Puerto Nuevo, population 1,700, has no church, no police, no immigration post and no elected officials. Flanked by dense rainforest on the southern bank of the muddy San Miguel River, it's a town of transients. And of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
September 14, 2008
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By FRANK BAJAK
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's main militant group claimed Saturday that it killed at least 29 military personnel in three separate attacks across the restive southern oil region.
September 14, 2008
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By EDWARD HARRIS
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
MASKIYOT, West Bank - They live just a couple of miles from each other along a country road winding through parched fields, but they are worlds apart.
September 14, 2008
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By KARIN LAUB
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - For the rest of the world, the disappearance of the imam Moussa al-Sadr is probably at most a footnote in the checkered history of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. In 1978, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim religious leader flew to Tripoli for a week of talks with Libyan officials. He was never seen or heard from again.
September 13, 2008
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By BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah handed over a man suspected of firing at a Lebanese army helicopter into military authorities, a judicial official said Friday, amid media reports that the fatal shooting was a mistake by the militant group.
September 13, 2008
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By BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
