Iranian protest sparks battles
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons today on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The counter-demonstrations were the opposition s fir...
 5.6K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 815.0 U.S. reverses policy, engages Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) The United States began a new policy of engagement with Myanmar s ruling military junta today, sending two senior diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top ...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 508.0 Karzai wins Afghan election without a vote
KABUL Afghanistan s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country s tumultuous ballot today, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round. The Obam...
6.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 536.0 Columbia signs U.S. military base pact
BOGOTA In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers today signed a pact to expand Washington s military s presence, a deal that Venezuela s Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region s security. U.S. Ambassad...
2.6K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 721.0 Gunmen storm U.N. site in Kabul, 12 dead
KABUL (AP) Taliban militants wearing suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early today, killing 12 people including six U.N. staff in the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine n...
0.8K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 282.0 Mayors ask Obama to visit Japanese A-bomb cities
TOKYO Japanese newspapers and activists are calling for Barack Obama to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the only two cities ever devastated by atomic bombs, ahead of his visit to Japan next month. The two cit...
4.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 565.0 Cleric warns against rally in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) A hard-line cleric sought today to head off an attempt to reinvigorate Iran s anti-government movement, warning against a planned opposition rally next month that would coincide with annual state-sponsored demonstrations against t...
2.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 422.0 Palestinians say hopes in Obama 'evaporated'
JERUSALEM The Palestinian president s political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have evaporated, accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Ma...
4.9K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 536.0 Rescuing Bandar
WASHINGTON (AP) They became good buddies during the war, the young American soldier and his invaluable Iraqi translator, an easygoing guy who could spot dangers in the shadows and calm jittery nerves in the streets. When it was time to go home, Joe...
13.7K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 364.0 US forces leave isolated Afghan base after attack
KABUL (AP) Taliban fighters claimed Friday their flag was flying victoriously over an eastern Afghan village U.S. forces abandoned after suffering casualties in one of the war s deadliest battles for American troops. The withdrawal this week from m...
6.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 647.0 U.S. aid bill concerns Pakistan military
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistan s powerful military, preparing for a new offensive against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, expressed serious concern today about a proposed multibillion-dollar U.S. aid package some consider an avenue to American meddling....
7.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 790.0 Diplomats head to Honduras for post-coup talks
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Diplomats from throughout the hemisphere were converging today on Honduras to resolve a standoff that has left the impoverished Central American country with two presidents, a capital scarred by protests and a bitterly divided...
3.9K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 422.0 Two U.S. sailors killed in blast
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Two U.S. sailors and a Filipino marine were killed today in a roadside bomb believed planted by al-Qaida linked militants, the first American troops to die in an attack in the Philippines in seven years. The Philippine mili...
3.3K - Sep. 29, 2009; scored 631.0 Hondurans ordered off streets after violent night
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Honduras interim government extended an already long curfew through most of Wednesday after police skirmished with backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya throughout the night and arrested more than 100 people for vand...
5.3K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 729.0 Marriage by proxy
MARYVILLE, Tenn. Hotaru Ferschke just wants to raise her 8-month-old son in his grandparents Tennessee home, surrounded by photos and memories of the father he ll never meet: a Marine who died in combat a month after marrying her from thousands of...
6.7K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 590.0 Spy chief among 23 killed in blast
KABUL (AP) A Taliban suicide bomber killed Afghanistan s deputy chief of intelligence during a visit to a mosque east of Kabul today in an attack that left 22 others dead. The bombing, which occurred in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, struck at ...
5.1K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 467.0 Karzai, Abdullah claim wins in Afghan election
KABUL (AP) President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah positioned themselves today as the winner of Afghanistan s presidential election, one day after millions of Afghans braved dozens of militant attacks to cast ballots. Partial pr...
6.0K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 536.0 Iraq: Bomb kills 2 near restaurant in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) A bicycle bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad Thursday killing two people in a deadly reminder of Iraq s security problems as the death toll rose to at least 101 from a string of blasts the day before that mainly targeted heavil...
5.6K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 610.0 Clinton at ceremony for embassy bombing
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today honored the victims of the deadly 1998 al-Qaida-linked attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. A day before the 11th anniversary of the Aug. 7 bombings in Nai...
0.7K - Aug. 6, 2009; scored 364.0 Plot on army base foiled
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian police said today they thwarted a terrorist plot in which extremists with ties to an al-Qaida-linked Somali Islamist group planned to invade a military base and open fire with automatic weapons until they were s...
5.3K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 467.0 | 
