Man appears in Florida court, concedes he may have accidentally sparked fire
May 15, 2008 - 19:29
Travis Reed, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 sparked a fire. But Brian Crowder, 31, said he tossed a cigarette, not a bottle full of ...
McCain predicts victory in Iraq, bin Laden removed by 2013 if he's president
May 15, 2008 - 19:04
Glen Johnson, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 as Democrats clamouring for fullscale troop withdrawals. The Republican presidential ...
Obama attacks Bush for linking him to Nazi appeasers; White House denies it
May 15, 2008 - 19:02
Beth Gorham, THE CANADIAN PRESS
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 talking to terrorists and radicals are like Nazi appeasers. The White House denied Bush's words in a speech to ...
Storms kill 1 in southern United States, damage Texas state capitol
May 15, 2008 - 18:56
Mary Foster, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 Louisiana town of Grosse Tete, a pecan tree fell onto a camper Thursday, killing a ...
Bush leaves it to Israeli prime minister to push Mideast peace
May 15, 2008 - 18:50
Terence Hunt, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 divided parliament Thursday and forcefully declare that this war-weary country is ready for a ...
Iran calls UN sanctions illegal, offers a proposal for talks
May 15, 2008 - 18:41
George Jahn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 copy of the offer obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The Islamic Republic also sent ...
California's top court overturns state ban, legalizes gay marriage
May 15, 2008 - 18:28
Lisa Leff, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the biggest U.S. state can marry, a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony. Same-sex couples ...
Obama picks up heavyweight support, leaves Clinton further behind
May 15, 2008 - 18:25
Beth Gorham, THE CANADIAN PRESS
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 campaign for the Democratic nomination. Obama drew at least four delegates from former ...
Clashes lead UN to pull its civilian staff from Sudan oil area
May 15, 2008 - 18:24
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 southern rebels. Abyei lies just north of the disputed boundary line between north and south ...
Flight attendant accused of setting fire on Minneapolis-Saskatchewan flight
May 15, 2008 - 18:11
Dave Kolpack, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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, Minnesota, was arrested in Minneapolis and charged in U.S. federal court. He is being ...
China quake toll could reach 50,000; daunting recovery for millions affected
May 15, 2008 - 18:08
William Foreman, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final death toll could more than double to ...
Kenya charges 2 Chinese citizens after ivory tusks found in luggage
May 15, 2008 - 18:02
Tom Odula, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 pleaded not guilty after the charges were read in a magistrate's court, said Joseph Mumira, ...
Long wait for medical care adds pain, suffering for China quake survivors
May 15, 2008 - 17:57
Audra Ang, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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 crushed to a pulp. Jiazhi survived. But with care delayed for nearly a day, the boy who loved ...
American and Iraqi forces mount house-to-house al-Qaida hunt in Mosul
May 15, 2008 - 17:48
Chelsea J. Carter And Lee Keath , THE AS
BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi troops moved against al-Qaida on two separate fronts Thursday, with house-to-house searches in Mosul and an operation in the desert to stanch the flow of insurgents and weapons to that northern city. With the new sweep, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is aiming to ...
After being horrified by disasters and death tolls, world moves on
May 15, 2008 - 17:37
Tim Sullivan, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Delhi - Long after the waves had ripped through her life with the force of a jet, long after the rubble had been cleared away, the woman sat in her half-built house and talked about what had become of her family, her village, her idea of community. Sriyawathi Malani Gunathilaka lost ...
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