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Report criticizes U.N. on oil-for-food
Sep 7 2005 10:24PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A yearlong investigation of the U.N. oil-for-food program issued a strong indictment of the United Nations and its top leadership Wednesday, concluding they tolerated corruption and allowed Saddam Hussein's government to pocket $10.2 billion.
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U.S. hostage freed after 10 months in Iraq
Sep 7 2005 10:15PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military, acting on a tip, raided an isolated farmhouse outside the capital Wednesday and rescued an American businessman held hostage for 10 months. The kidnappers, who had kept their captive bound and gagged, escaped without a gunbattle.
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Charges of fraud mar Egyptian election
Sep 7 2005 9:36PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptians voted Wednesday in the country's first contested presidential election, but charges of fraud and a big boycott rally marred balloting that longtime leader Hosni Mubarak portrayed as a major democratic reform.
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Saddam reportedly defends attack on Kurds
Sep 7 2005 9:35PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein acknowledged ordering deadly retribution against Kurds in the north of the country and boasted that the killings were legal and justified, an official of the Iraqi Special Tribunal said Wednesday.
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Abbas vows to hunt down ex-chief's killers
Sep 7 2005 9:35PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas vowed to hunt down the killers of a powerful former security chief whose gangland-style slaying Wednesday laid bare Gaza's raging power struggles just days before Israel hands over control of the coastal territory.
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Jets hit al-Qaida stronghold in Iraq
Sep 7 2005 4:13PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. warplanes bombed a house in an al-Qaida stronghold near the Syrian border Wednesday and a key terrorist operative was believed killed, the U.S. military said.
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Suicide car bomber kills 10 in Iraq
Sep 7 2005 2:55PM (CT)
BASRA, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car outside a takeout restaurant in a market in this southern Iraqi city Wednesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15, police said.
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La. guardsmen returning from Kuwait
Sep 7 2005 1:36PM (CT)
CAMP VICTORY, Kuwait (AP) - Hundreds of soldiers from a New Orleans National Guard unit begin leaving Thursday to return to the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. Guard officials said 80 percent lost homes or jobs and some had not heard from relatives since the storm.
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U.S. rejects Iranian offer to send oil
Sep 7 2005 11:54AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran offered to send the United States 20 million barrels of crude oil in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina if Washington waived trade sanctions, but a State Department official said Wednesday that offer was rejected.
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Gaza economy suffocated by restrictions
Sep 7 2005 2:48AM (CT)
DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The sticky sweet smell of sugar, chocolate and marshmallow still hangs over the Al-Awda factory floor, though its owners have grown bitter about the fate of their cookie company.
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Turkish frustration with EU grows
Sep 7 2005 2:46AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Just after becoming Turkey's leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan flew to Italy, a strong supporter of his nation's bid to join the European Union, and joked that Turkish membership should be a "Catholic wedding" _ one that lasts forever.
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Talabani says Saddam confessed to crimes
Sep 7 2005 2:31AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's president said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein had confessed to killings and other "crimes" committed during his regime, including the massacre of thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s.
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Gunmen kill ex-Palestinian security chief
Sep 7 2005 12:18AM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Dozens of gunmen stormed the home of deposed Gaza security chief Moussa Arafat before dawn Wednesday and killed him, witnesses and police said.
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