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Gazans celebrate first day of freedom
Sep 12 2005 9:40PM (CT)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian boys waded fully clothed into the Mediterranean on once-forbidden beaches. Parents guided children through demolished Jewish settlements, where scavengers grabbed everything from red roof tiles to light posts. Hundreds climbed over a wall separating Gaza and Egypt to reunite with relatives.
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Bounty placed on heads of Iraqi leaders
Sep 12 2005 9:40PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi insurgents, run out of their northern stronghold in Tal Afar for the second time in a year, counterattacked with an Internet propaganda offensive Monday that put a bounty of about $200,000 on the heads of top Iraqi leaders.
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U.S. envoy: Syria a terrorist hub for Iraq
Sep 12 2005 4:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration's top envoy in Iraq warned Monday that U.S. "patience is running out" with Syrian interference across the border, and refused to rule out either a military strike or punishment through the United Nations.
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Syria to cooperate with U.N. in probe
Sep 12 2005 2:28PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Under growing pressure, Syria agreed Monday to allow a U.N. investigator to question members of President Bashar Assad's inner circle about the assassination of Lebanon's former premier, an inquiry some believe might shake his regime.
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Hostage pleads for employer to leave Iraq
Sep 12 2005 2:21PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - With a gun barrel to his head, a Lebanese man taken hostage in Iraq has appeared on the Internet, pleading for his company to leave the country to save his life.
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Palestinian teens hit beach after pullout
Sep 12 2005 12:37PM (CT)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian teenagers Mahmoud Barbakh and Mohammed Jaroun grew up just a few minutes from the Mediterranean, but had never been to the beach.
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Iran to proceed with uranium enrichment
Sep 12 2005 12:17PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - The head of Iran's nuclear program said Monday his country would not halt its uranium enrichment program, but he added that Tehran would welcome other nations in its ongoing talks with European negotiators.
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Baghdad car bombing kills 1, injures 17
Sep 12 2005 12:01PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A huge car bomb exploded outside a popular restaurant in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood Monday night, witnesses said. Hospital officials reported at least one person was killed and 17 were wounded.
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World leaders seek meetings with Sharon
Sep 12 2005 11:14AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, fresh off his historic Gaza Strip withdrawal, has been flooded with so many requests to meet with other leaders during the U.N. 60th anniversary celebrations in New York this week that he couldn't accommodate them all, aides say.
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Turkey nabs man in possible death plot
Sep 12 2005 10:16AM (CT)
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - A man carrying a gun hidden inside a loaf of bread was arrested Monday as he approached a bus that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was boarding, and a prosecutor said the suspect may have intended to shoot the premier.
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Iraq insurgents offer bounties for deaths
Sep 12 2005 8:42AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - In a new Web posting, an Islamic insurgent group offered to pay bounties for the deaths of Iraq's Shiite prime minister and other top officials in retaliation for an offensive against a militant stronghold in northern Iraq.
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Lawyer: Saddam trial is political gimmick
Sep 12 2005 7:17AM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - A top member of Saddam Hussein's defense team said Monday the deposed dictator's upcoming trial was a political gimmick by the new Iraqi government as it tries to generate support for next month's constitutional referendum.
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Palestinians set fire to empty synagogues
Sep 12 2005 3:51AM (CT)
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (AP) - Flames shot skyward from four abandoned synagogues in the Gaza Strip on Monday, as thousands of celebrating Palestinians thronged through former Jewish settlements and headed straight for the only buildings left standing.
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