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Deadly car bomb hits U.S. convoy in Iraq
Aug 9 2005 11:57PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy waiting at an intersection Tuesday in Baghdad, killing seven people _ including one American soldier _ and wounding more than 90. More than a dozen others died in scattered attacks across the capital.
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IAEA tries to resolve Iran nuclear crisis
Aug 9 2005 11:20PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iran's president said Tuesday he will submit new proposals in negotiations over his country's nuclear program but denounced a European offer of aid as an "insult," as the U.N. nuclear agency tried to resolve the crisis without referring Tehran to the Security Council.
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Palestinian leader urges calm in pullout
Aug 9 2005 10:27PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - With a week to go before Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas warned his people Tuesday that attacks during the pullout would harm their chances for independence.
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Bush suspicious of Iran's nuclear plans
Aug 9 2005 10:23PM (CT)
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush said Tuesday he was "deeply suspicious" of Iran but was not ready to seek United Nations sanctions against Tehran for its suspected nuclear weapons program.
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Saudis release five held at Guantanamo
Aug 9 2005 6:11PM (CT)
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Five Saudis who were held at the U.S military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before they were handed over to Saudi security officials, have been released, the Saudi Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
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Iraqi experts call for national oil policy
Aug 9 2005 5:17PM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Iraq needs a comprehensive law governing its oil industry and must encourage its private sector to participate in developing the country's oil wealth, according to a draft proposal released Tuesday.
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Civilians injured in Kuwait training area
Aug 9 2005 5:08PM (CT)
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - American soldiers accidentally fired on a civilian car that entered a shooting range where they were training Tuesday, injuring two adults and a child, the U.S. military said.
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Sudan's Salva Kiir has scant experience
Aug 9 2005 3:53PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - He battled the northern government through 21 years of civil war, founded the southern rebel movement at the side of the beloved John Garang and strategized many military successes in the long fight for autonomy.
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Iranian leader appoints nuclear negotiator
Aug 9 2005 3:47PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is bringing in one of the most hard-line elements in the Islamic regime to head talks with Europeans as the country takes a tougher stance over its nuclear ambitions.
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Iraq troop reductions likely next year
Aug 9 2005 2:32PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Plans to begin reducing America's troop commitment in Iraq next year could still leave a sizable American military presence in the most dangerous parts of the country, where U.S. forces have suffered most of their casualties.
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Israel, Palestinians to remove Gaza rubble
Aug 9 2005 1:53PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed late Tuesday on how to dispose of rubble from the 21 Jewish settlements to be destroyed when Israel pulls out of the Gaza Strip, the Defense Ministry said.
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Egyptian chemist freed after questioning
Aug 9 2005 12:59PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian chemist freed Tuesday after three weeks in custody for questioning about deadly bombings in London said he casually knew two of the attackers. He called one of them "very kind and very nice."
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Ex-Saddam associate says he won't testify
Aug 9 2005 12:44PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Top Saddam Hussein lieutenant Tariq Aziz will not testify against the ousted dictator in any criminal trial, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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Dissident: Tehran has 4,000 centrifuges
Aug 9 2005 4:50AM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade, an exiled Iranian dissident who helped uncover nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity in 2002 said Tuesday.
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Iraq panel member seeks federalism delay
Aug 9 2005 4:33AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A leading Sunni Arab helping write Iraq's constitution said Tuesday that accepting Kurdish demands for federalism would have "grave consequences" for the nation and that the issue should be left for the new parliament.
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Abbas: Palestinian vote to be held in Jan.
Aug 9 2005 4:21AM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - After repeated delays, Palestinian legislative elections will be held in January, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced Tuesday.
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U.N. workers briefly abducted in Gaza town
Aug 9 2005 1:08AM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian militants briefly abducted two U.N. workers and their driver Monday in the Gaza town of Khan Younis before Palestinian security stormed the hideout, freeing them in a hail of gunfire.
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