Archive By Section - Associated Press
BAGHDAD - Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked the facility and killed the manager. Looters took care of the rest.
August 16, 2008
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By SELCAN HACAOGLU
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
XI'AN, China - Finally, China had an act of nature it could celebrate.
August 16, 2008
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By CARA ANNA
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Benjamin Netanyahu, a hard-liner on territorial concessions to the Arabs, called Thursday for early Israeli elections a day after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he will resign over a corruption scandal.
August 15, 2008
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By AMY TEIBEL
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
NAALIN, West Bank - A Palestinian teen tracks Israeli troops with a video camera to document abuse of demonstrators.
August 15, 2008
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By DIAA HADID
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A U.S. military judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can use a disputed interrogation to support their case against a former driver for Osama bin Laden in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.
August 15, 2008
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By MIKE MELIA
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Every single man knows: Walking a dog in the park is a sure babe magnet. Saudi Arabia's Islamic religious police, in their zeal to keep the sexes apart, want to make sure the technique doesn't catch on here.
August 15, 2008
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By DONNA ABU-NASR
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A mortar shell hit a house in a valley where Pakistani security forces are battling Islamic militants, killing a family of seven, and militants torched a nearby girls school, police said Thursday.
August 15, 2008
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By RIAZ KHAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudan's president said he will never deal with the International Criminal Court where he faces charges of genocide in Darfur, according to a newspaper interview published Thursday.
August 15, 2008
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By SARAH EL DEEB
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba - A man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses said Thursday.
August 15, 2008
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The Associated Press
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to leave office has dealt a serious setback to delicate peace negotiations with both the Palestinians and Syria.
August 15, 2008
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By STEVEN GUTKIN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal for the first time Thursday, telling the judge he would defend himself against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
August 15, 2008
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By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts.
August 14, 2008
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By MARK LAVIE
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe will drop 10 zeros from its hyper-inflated currency - turning 10 billion dollars into one - the country's reserve bank said Wednesday. President Robert Mugabe threatened a state of emergency if businesses profiteer from the country's economic and political unraveling.
August 14, 2008
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By ANGUS SHAW
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
LONDON - Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment.
August 14, 2008
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By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani troops battled Islamic militants in a valley near the Afghan border Wednesday, killing 25 insurgents and losing five soldiers as escalating combat threatened the new government's policy of offering peace to pro-Taliban groups.
August 14, 2008
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By RIAZ KHAN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
