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Israel weighs moving up Gaza pullout date
Jul 21 2005 9:57PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The government is considering moving up its mid-August withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, senior government officials said Thursday, after a three-day protest against the pullout was thwarted but tied up tens of thousands of security forces.
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U.N. envoy says Gaza withdrawal could help
Jul 21 2005 9:38PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The top U.N. envoy for the Middle East peace process said Thursday the planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip could help re-energize talks toward a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Sudan security roughs up Rice delegation
Jul 21 2005 9:11PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudanese security officers roughed up members of Condoleezza Rice's entourage Thursday and spoiled the African nation's hopes of showing off a new peace deal and improving a bruised reputation with the United States.
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Saddam complains about access to lawyer
Jul 21 2005 8:19PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein complained that he has not been allowed sufficient access to his lawyer in a new tape aired on Thursday by an Arabic satellite television station.
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Gunmen kidnap 2 Algeria diplomats in Iraq
Jul 21 2005 8:16PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Gunmen seized two Algerian diplomats Thursday _ including the country's top envoy to Iraq _ in the latest attacks aimed at scaring away Muslim diplomats and undermining the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
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President-elect: Iran won't seek nuke arms
Jul 21 2005 6:42PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president-elect said Thursday his country will not pursue atomic weapons but it will not submit to international pressure to abandon its nuclear program, state-run television reported.
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Rice tries to shore up Mideast truce
Jul 21 2005 4:20PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - With less than a month to go before Israel plans its historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she will talk to both Israeli and Palestinian leaders about preserving hopes for peace and stability.
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Lebanese warlord calls for new start
Jul 21 2005 3:14PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A notorious anti-Syrian warlord imprisoned for 11 years said in his first jailhouse interview that Lebanon should never again return to the bloody rivalries that pitched it into civil war.
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Yemen riots over subsidy cut leave 16 dead
Jul 21 2005 2:42PM (CT)
SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - Rioters enraged by subsidy cuts clashed with security forces for a second day Thursday across Yemen, burning cars and buildings and leaving 16 people dead in the country's worst civil strife in more than a decade.
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Group offers redrawn map to Iraq assembly
Jul 21 2005 9:36AM (CT)
KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) - Kurdish leaders have presented a redrawn map with a larger Kurdistan to the Iraqi National Assembly for consideration in the new constitution, a Kurdish party official said Thursday.
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2 Algeria diplomats said abducted in Iraq
Jul 21 2005 8:08AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two Algerian diplomats and their driver were abducted Thursday in a western Baghdad neighborhood, police and embassy employees said.
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King Fahd said expected to leave hospital
Jul 21 2005 7:20AM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia's ailing King Fahd remains hospitalized in Riyadh after nearly two months but is expected to leave soon, a prominent daily newspaper quoted a government official as saying.
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For Marines in Iraq, humor offers escape
Jul 21 2005 2:58AM (CT)
HADITHA, Iraq (AP) - Slumped on the doorstep of a war-damaged police station, worn out and sweltering in 110 degree heat, Pfc. Derek Davidson couldn't resist a joke about a friend who'd stayed back at base after injuring himself lifting weights.
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