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2008-09-07 09:17	AP International	Bush comments on Sept 11 attacks, terror fight (AP) - Comments by President Bush on the Sept. 11 attacks and the fight against terrorism:...
2008-09-07 09:17	AP International	Sept 11 brought US into age of terrorism, anxiety WASHINGTON (AP) - Dead or alive....
2008-09-07 09:07	AP International	India jubilant over nuclear trade waiver NEW DELHI (AP) - India's government and business groups were jubilant Sunday over a hard-won endorsement from nations that supply nuclear material and technology, a decision that paves the way for a landmark civil nuclear energy accord between India and the United States....
2008-09-07 08:42	AP International	Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31, others buried CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian police on Sunday moved shanty town residents from the site of a rock slide that killed at least 31 and left countless more buried, after concerns that more rocks could tumble from the unstable cliffs overhead....
2008-09-07 08:32	AP International	Unknown powder sent to US diplomats in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A U.S. official says two U.S. diplomatic outposts in Pakistan received envelopes containing an unknown white powder last week, sparking a security scare....
2008-09-07 08:02	AP International	Ike damages 80 percent of homes on Grand Turk PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) - The Turks and Caicos premier says Hurricane Ike has damaged 80 percent of the homes on Grand Turk island....
2008-09-07 08:02	AP International	Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors TOKYO (AP) - Green-colored polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo....
2008-09-07 07:17	AP International	Cheney holds talks in Italy on Georgia crisis CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney renewed his call for cooperation between Europe and Washington over the Georgia crisis, Italy's foreign minister said Sunday....
2008-09-07 06:17	AP International	Police: Bombs explode at Afghan police HQ, 6 dead KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - An Afghan police official says six policemen are dead after two suicide attackers detonated bombs inside the police headquarters of Afghanistan's second-largest city....
2008-09-07 06:02	AP International	Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Two landslides triggered by heavy rains buried more than 20 houses in a remote gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, leaving at least 11 people dead and 16 others missing, officials said Sunday....
2008-09-07 06:02	AP International	Official: Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian authorities say they have pulled 31 bodies out of the rubble of a Cairo shanty town crushed by massive boulders....
2008-09-07 06:02	AP International	China to launch space mission in late September BEIJING (AP) - China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said....
2008-09-07 05:47	AP International	Sri Lankan air force attacks rebel camps COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's air force launched attacks on two Tamil separatist camps in the embattled north Sunday, and infantry clashes elsewhere in the region killed eight rebels and three soldiers, the military said....
2008-09-07 05:47	AP International	Early results in Angola give ruling party lead LUANDA, Angola (AP) - Angolan election officials say early parliamentary results give the ruling party a big lead over a former rebel group....
2008-09-07 05:32	AP International	Afghanistan: Blasts explode at Kandahar police HQ KANDAHAR (AP) - Afghan police say two blasts have gone off at the police headquarters in Afghanistan's second-largest city. Casualties are feared....
2008-09-07 05:32	AP International	Hanna rolls into Connecticut with heavy rain HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Tropical Storm Hanna rolled into Connecticut on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, wind gusts and oppressive humidity....
2008-09-07 05:17	AP International	Israel's government discusses evacuation bill JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's government is holding its first discussion of legislation that would pay Jewish settlers to leave their homes in the West Bank even before a peace deal is signed with the Palestinians....
2008-09-07 04:42	AP International	Rebels: Government assault in Darfur thwarted KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - A Darfur rebel group says it has successfully repelled a government assault in North Darfur, but the Sudanese government denies it carried out any operations in the area....
2008-09-07 04:23	AP International	Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike....
2008-09-07 03:47	AP International	Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A Myanmar junta official said Sunday there is "no indication" that detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is on a hunger strike but implied the government has not sent anyone to make sure....
2008-09-07 03:32	AP International	Sri Lanka air force helicopters attack rebel camp COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's air force launched a pre-dawn attack on a Tamil separatist naval camp in the embattled north Sunday, and infantry clashes elsewhere in the region killed eight rebels and three soldiers, the military said....
2008-09-07 03:22	AP International	Thai leader dismisses talk of military coup BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's embattled prime minister denied a rift with the army Sunday and dismissed the possibility of a coup when he travels to the U.N. General Assembly in New York later this month....
2008-09-07 03:07	AP International	Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president....
2008-09-07 02:02	Reuters Lead Headline	Kashmir's youth rising Kashmir's new generation of separatists are proving a huge challenge to New Delhi, spurring the biggest protests in two decades with the help of technology....
2008-09-07 01:57	AP International	Flood in China coal mine traps 23 people BEIJING (AP) - Twenty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday....
2008-09-07 01:42	AP International	Report: Flood in China coal mine traps 23 people BEIJING (AP) - Twenty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday....
2008-09-07 01:07	AP International	New England braces for Hanna's drenching rains BOSTON (AP) - Southern New England is bracing for drenching rain and gusts near 50 mph as Tropical Storm Hanna runs up the Eastern Seaboard....
2008-09-07 00:32	AP International	Blast, clashes in northwest Pakistan kills 59 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A pickup truck packed with explosives blew up a police security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens more, the day after a foiled militant kidnap attempt led to another 24 deaths in the volatile region....
2008-09-06 23:32	AP International	Ike blasts Turks and Caicos as Category 4 storm PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) - Hurricane Ike slammed into the Turks and Caicos on Saturday as a ferocious Category 4 storm, raking the low-lying island chain with ferocious winds as people hunkered down at home or in emergency shelters....
2008-09-06 23:32	AP International	SF Bay area officer, 2 others killed in gun fight MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) - Three people including a police officer are dead after a reported domestic disturbance at a hair salon turned into a gun fight, police in this San Francisco Bay area community said Saturday....
2008-09-06 23:17	AP International	Hurricane Ike near Turks and Caicos; Cuba braces MIAMI (AP) - 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....
2008-09-06 22:57	AP International	US holds off on civilian nuclear pact with Russia ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday....
2008-09-06 22:57	AP International	Report: Flood in China coal mine traps 20 people BEIJING (AP) - A state-run news agency says 20 people are trapped after a coal mine flooded in central China....
2008-09-06 22:17	AP International	Obama, McCain call for changes in mortgage giants TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday that any government takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must put the interests of taxpayers and homeowners first. His opponent, GOP nominee John McCain, said it was essential to restructure the mortgage giants....
2008-09-06 22:17	AP International	Clinton limits Palin criticism while campaigning NEW YORK (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton marched for labor and stumped with Democrats on Saturday, but sidestepped questions about the woman who has taken her place as the nation's most-talked-about female leader....
2008-09-06 20:32	AP International	McCain pledges to appoint Democrats to Cabinet WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican John McCain pledged if elected president to appoint Democrats to his Cabinet, saying there's nothing partisan about tackling the nation's toughest problems....
2008-09-06 20:32	AP International	'Extremely dangerous' Ike aims for Turk and Caicos MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Ike roars toward Turk and Caicos islands as 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 storm with winds of 135 mph....
2008-09-06 19:42	AP International	Cuba declines US disaster assessment after Gustav HAVANA (AP) - Cuba politely 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 food and other materials it needs to recover....
2008-09-06 19:32	AP International	Robert Novak column describes cancer treatment CHICAGO (AP) - Conservative political commentator Robert Novak says he's lost partial vision and undergone a lengthy surgery to remove a tumor since being diagnosed with brain cancer....
2008-09-06 19:32	AP International	Obama: Secret Service is handy when you have girls TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - Who knew Secret Service agents were so handy for parents of elementary school kids?...
2008-09-06 19:17	AP International	40 years after capture, USS Pueblo crew reunites JERICHO, Vt. (AP) - Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968....
2008-09-06 19:17	AP International	Lawmaker accused of politicizing Palin probe ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska lawmaker leading an investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of her public safety commissioner should be removed because he appears to be manipulating the probe to damage her vice presidential candidacy, a Republican legislator says....
2008-09-06 18:42	AP International	Crash with suspect's SUV kills Philly officer PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 16-year-old in a stolen vehicle smashed into a police car during a chase, killing one of two officers in the cruiser, authorities said Saturday....
2008-09-06 18:02	Reuters Lead Headline	Water's rising tide Water supplies are dwindling as booming populations demand more access and climate warming threatens its availability, but speculators aren't too worried: they see profits there....
2008-09-06 17:52	AP International	Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said....
2008-09-06 17:42	AP International	Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. Food was distributed to famished residents, including to emaciated inmates at the local jail....
2008-09-06 17:42	AP International	Powerful storm raises fears from Caribbean to Gulf KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it plodded on an uncertain path that forced millions along an arc of coastline from the Caribbean to Florida, and Louisiana to Mexico to nervously wonder where it would end up....
2008-09-06 17:32	AP International	Protests greet Turkish president in Armenia YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the capital Saturday to protest the first-ever visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War I massacres of Armenian civilians as genocide....
2008-09-06 17:17	AP International	Growing Ike nears Turks and Caicos, south Bahamas PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) - A strengthening Hurricane Ike loomed over this low-lying island chain Saturday as a dangerous Category 4 storm, prompting thousands of people to evacuate while those staying behind hunkered down and hoped for the best....
2008-09-06 17:17	AP International	Hurricane Ike at Cat 4; packs winds of 135 mph MIAMI (AP) - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Ike has intensified to a dangerous Category 4 storm with winds sustained at 135 mph....


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