Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lashes out at Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel
May 11, 2008 - 23:55
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at Germany's chancellor on Sunday, suggesting her party shares the political ideals of Adolf Hitler. Chavez criticized Angela Merkel for belonging to the conservative Christian Democratic Union, calling the movement "the same ...
Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles
May 11, 2008 - 22:10
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - U-S Democatic presidential contender Barack Obama turned his focus to the expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain Sunday, but Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to keep her campaign afloat. That was even though her Democratic rival has an almost insurmountable ...
American families will make case for a vaccine link to autism in children
May 11, 2008 - 21:41
Kevin Freking, The Associated Press--
WASHINGTON - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court. They seek vindication and financial redress from a government fund that helps people injured by ...
At least 11 dead after overloaded Haitian ferry sinks off southern coast
May 11, 2008 - 21:04
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U-N and Haitian authorities say an overloaded ferry has sunk off the Caribbean country's southern coast, killing at least 11 people. A U-N peacekeeping mission official says most of the 100 people aboard the crowded ferry were able to swim to safety. The boat ...
Prosecutor agrees to drop death penalty to get suspect back
May 11, 2008 - 21:03
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EASLEY, S.C. - Pickens County's chief prosecutor says he made a deal with Canadian authorities not to seek the death penalty so he could get a suspect returned to the state to stand trial on a murder charge. Bob Ariail said there was no reasonable alternative to agreeing to drop the death ...
Over 20 dead in Mo., Okla., Ga. after new round of storms
May 11, 2008 - 21:02
Murray Evans, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PICHER, Okla. - Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region a day earlier and killed at least 21 people in three states. Six people died in Picher, once a bustling mining center of 20,000 that dwindled ...
From jail to a job: One mother's quest to keep her baby
May 11, 2008 - 17:39
Maria Sudekum Fisher, THE ASSOCIATED PRE
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Raechelle Romero was always running from something, starting at 15: from tough relationships with her dad and stepmother, foster homes, abusive boyfriends. Eventually, the troubled teenager ended up on the streets, working as a prostitute. A fight over a bag of cocaine ...
Lebanese fear all-out war, but hope for political compromise
May 11, 2008 - 17:23
Zeina Karam, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT - Lebanon hung between fears of all-out civil war and hopes of political compromise Sunday even as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine-guns in the mountains overlooking the capital. Clashes shifted to outside Beirut over the weekend and fighting on ...
Boat carrying aid for Myanmar cyclone victims sinks
May 11, 2008 - 17:20
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster zone. Meanwhile, as the official death ...
Zimbabwe election official says delay likely in presidential run-off vote
May 11, 2008 - 15:24
Angus Shaw, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The presidential run-off election pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head of the electoral commission said in an interview published Sunday. Tsvangirai announced on ...
Bloated bodies litter Myanmar, forgotten in fight for survival after cyclone
May 11, 2008 - 15:22
By The Associated Press
As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current on the Pyapon River, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water. But with little aid getting through to desperate cyclone survivors, the ...
President Bush describes his daughter Jenna's wedding as 'spectacular'
May 11, 2008 - 14:12
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO, Texas - President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush didn't share their daughter's wedding with the world on Saturday. But Bush eagerly shared their joy on Sunday over the marriage of daughter Jenna to Henry Hager, telling reporters he and his wife feel "mighty ...
Poppy fields, the financial lifeblood of the Taliban, hide in plain sight.
May 11, 2008 - 14:10
Murray Brewster, THE CANADIAN PRESS
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - It isn't visible from the road for obvious reasons. The field is set back behind a tree line at least half a kilometre from a busy highway that connects Kandahar city with an even wider swath of parched farmland in the Panjwaii and Zhari districts to the ...
Canadian engineers hope to rebuild Afghan army barracks, family apartments
May 11, 2008 - 14:09
THE CANADIAN PRESS
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadian military engineers have taken the first step in plans to rebuild dilapidated apartments that serve as barracks for Afghan National Army soldiers and their families in the Kandahar area. On Sunday, the engineers inspected the barracks, mostly bombed out ...
Turkey still grapples with domestic violence; cultural practices denigrate women
May 11, 2008 - 12:47
Christopher Torchia, THE ASSOCIATED PRES
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Emine Yaman lies in bed, her legs rigid, her feet prone to sores and swelling. Paralyzed by a bullet her husband fired into her chest, she is the face of domestic violence in a country still struggling to discard long-held cultural practices that denigrate women. She ...
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