International
- Karadzic refuses to enter pleas
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Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter pleas Friday at his arraignment before a U. N. court on genocide charges, calling the tribunal a NATO proxy out to “liquidate” him.
- Zardari moves to guarded compound
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Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s presidential frontrunner has moved into a tightly guarded government compound because of security fears, officials said Friday.
- Russian threats worrying residents
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Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- REDZIKOWO, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister sought to reassure worried residents near the site of a planned U. S. missile defense base on Friday, pledging that they and the country would be more secure, despite threats from Russia.
- Orchestra admits prerecording music
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Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- SYDNEY, Australia (AP) China isn’t the only country that faked a musical performance during an Olympic opening ceremony. Australia knows a thing about miming music, too.
- Delta, Russian airliners miss colliding head-on by 60 seconds
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Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- WASHINGTON (AP) — Two airliners were one minute from away from colliding when one of the planes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week, federal authorities said Friday.
- Alitalia airline seeks bankruptcy protection
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Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- ROME (AP) — Alitalia said Friday it has sought bankruptcy protection, taking the first step in a plan to reshape Italy’s debt-laden national carrier.
- Georgia breaks ties with Russia as Putin warns EU
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By Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said the move only would make the situation worse.
- Police fire tear gas at protesters in Thailand
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By Grant Peck
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/30/08 6:44 AM
- BANGKOK, Thailand — Police fired tear gas at thousands of right-wing protesters besieging their headquarters Friday, while demonstrators outside the capital disrupted air and rail service in a growing campaign to unseat the prime minister.
- Senior Iraqi Shiite official held on suspicion of ties to militias
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By Robert H. Reid
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM
- BAGHDAD — A senior official in Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki’s government was in custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed Shiite militias and plotting a June bombing that killed 10 people, including four Americans, Iraqi authorities said.
- Afghan civilian toll lower, U. S. says
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By Robert Burns
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM
- WASHINGTON — After reviewing a disputed airstrike on a village in Afghanistan, U. S. officials have concluded that the civilian death toll was far lower than claimed by the Afghan government and the United Nations, three U. S. defense officials said Thursday.
- Putin says U. S. led Georgia into war
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By Steve Gutterman
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM
- MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin accused the United States on Thursday of pushing Georgia toward war and said he suspects a connection to the U. S. presidential campaign — a contention the White House dismissed as “patently false.”
- Insolvent airline leaves passengers stranded
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By Charmaine Noronha
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM
- TORONTO — Hundreds of Zoom Airlines passengers were stranded Thursday in Canada and Britain after the cash-strapped Canadian airline suddenly canceled all of its flights because creditors took action to get money owed them.
- Diaper snags, saves tot in three-story fall
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Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM
- SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
- High court upholds abortions in capital
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Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM
- MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico.
- Car bomb kills eight as violence mounts
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Updated: 08/29/08 6:55 AM
- PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A surge of violence continued unabated Thursday in Pakistan’s tribal border region, with a car bomb blasting a bus filled with Pakistani police and government workers off a bridge and killing eight people aboard.
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