Kenya: Somali pirates make $150M in a year
By JOSEPH MWIHIA
Associated Press Writer
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year, Kenya's foreign affairs minister said Friday, calling on ship owners not pay when their vessels are hi ...
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Bush effigy burned in anti-US protest in Baghdad
By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein ...
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China says 19,000 students died in May earthquake
By AUDRA ANG
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING (AP) -- More than 19,000 schoolchildren died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May, China acknowledged Friday for the first time.
The earthquake left nearly 90,000 people dea ...
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US details role for additional Afghan forces
By ANNE GEARAN
AP Military Writer
CORNWALLIS, Canada (AP) -- With the United States reevaluating strategy in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling allies that additional U.S. forces planned for the war must be shared across the reg ...
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Shiites in Baghdad protest planned US-Iraq pact
By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on a central Baghdad square Friday for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact.
The demonstrators w ...
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US raid kills Iraqi blamed in 2004 reservist death
By RYAN LUCAS
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- An al-Qaida in Iraq leader blamed in the 2004 abduction and murder of an Army reservist and other deadly attacks over several years was killed in an American raid in Baghdad, the U.S. mili ...
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Interpol probes leaks in Mexico office
By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Interpol is sending a special investigative team to Mexico to determine whether sensitive information from its database on criminals and terrorists was leaked to drug cartels, the agency said ...
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Iraqi parliament debate on pact ends in scuffles
By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A heated parliamentary debate on the U.S.-Iraq security treaty was called to an early close Wednesday as lawmakers loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr scuffled with security guards ...
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Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork
By STEVE WEIZMAN
Associated Press Writer
HERODIUM, West Bank (AP) -- King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.
The s ...
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Israel spurns UN plea to ease Gaza blockade
By AMY TEIBEL
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel stood fast Wednesday by its decision to clamp shut cargo crossings at the Gaza Strip, brushing off pleas to ease the blockade from United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon.
Israel sealed the p ...
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Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama in new audio message
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF
and LEE KEATH
Associated Press Writers
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 slurred Barack Obama with a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new Web message Wednesday intended to ...
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Somali pirates transform villages into boomtowns
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
and ELIZABETH KENNEDY
Associated Press Writers
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women -- even hiring cater ...
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