AP - President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops on Sunday to the border with Colombia, accusing it of pushing South America to the brink of war by killing a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil.
Reuters - Presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged a tight campaign fight
across Ohio on Sunday two days before crucial voting that could
virtually nail down the Democratic nomination or prolong the
party battle into the spring.
Reuters - Britain's Prince Harry is keen to return
to the frontline in Afghanistan "very, very soon" but military
chiefs fear that could pose a major security headache.
AP - The Columbia Training School — pleasant on the outside, austere on the inside — has been home to 37 of the most troubled young women in Mississippi.
AFP - Israel vowed to press its campaign against militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday despite an international outcry over the deadly onslaught that prompted even the moderate Palestinian leadership to cut off all peace talks.
Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
hailed a new chapter in ties with Iraq and took a jab at the
United States over its policies in the Middle East during a
landmark visit to Baghdad on Sunday.
Reuters - The top U.S. negotiator on North Korea
was to leave China on Sunday without meeting his North Korean
counterpart, who he said was "not ready" for talks aimed at
pushing forward a stalled nuclear disarmament plan.
Reuters - At least 30 people were killed and up
to 40 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a traditional
tribal meeting in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials
said.
AFP - Israeli forces continued attacks Sunday after killing 61 Palestinians in a land and air blitz in the Hamas-held Gaza Strip on Saturday, amid warnings that the violence had "buried" the peace process.
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AP - A mother and two children were killed in a predawn attack at their remote East Texas ranch, which burned to the ground, and four young people who knew the family will be charged with murder, authorities said.
Reuters - Armenia's opposition ended a standoff
with riot police in the capital Yerevan on Sunday after the
government declared a state of emergency and mobilized the army
in response to the worst unrest in a decade.
AP - The New York Jets and Pro Bowl left guard Alan Faneca agreed to terms on a five-year, $40 million contract Saturday, making the former Pittsburgh player the highest-paid offensive lineman in the NFL.
AP - A motel patron hospitalized after the potent poison ricin was mysteriously found in his room "barely got by in life," according to a woman who knew him when he lived at a Utah home that agents hoped to search Saturday.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama, on his first visit to Rhode Island as a presidential candidate, sought Saturday to portray Hillary Rodham Clinton as a candidate who shifted positions for political expediency.
AP - He was The Joker in Batman, but Jack Nicholson says he wasn't fooling around when he said in "A Few Good Men" that there was nothing sexier than saluting a woman.
AP - Israeli troops turned heavy firepower on rocket squads bombarding southern Israel Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since the current round of fighting erupted in 2000.
AP - President Bush declined Saturday to promise more U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq before he leaves office, and underscored the need for a strong military presence during Iraqi provincial elections in October.
Reuters - Israeli forces killed 61 people in the
Gaza Strip on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians
since an uprising against Israeli occupation began in 2000.
AP - After eight years of rule that saw Russia's influence and wealth grow while its democratic freedoms shrank, voters in the Far East were the first in this vast nation to cast their ballots Sunday for President Vladimir Putin's successor.
Reuters - Britain's Prince Harry returned from his
frontline stint in Afghanistan in somber mood after flying home
opposite two severely injured soldiers.
Reuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a
landmark trip to Iraq on Sunday, the first Iranian president to
visit since the two neighbours fought a protracted war in the
1980s that killed a million people.
Reuters - Presidential candidate
Barack Obama accused rival Democrat Hillary Clinton of using
the politics of fear on Saturday after her campaign released an
ad suggesting that Obama lacked enough security experience to
keep America safe.
AFP - The Colombian military killed the number two leader of the Marxist FARC rebels, Raul Reyes, in an air strike Saturday in neighboring Ecuador, dealing a major blow to the guerrillas, officials said.
AP - The rap star Juvenile is "shocked and devastated" by the shooting death of his young daughter, the girl's mother and another child, his manager said Saturday.
Reuters - Violent civilian deaths in Iraq rose 36
percent in February from the previous month after a series of
large-scale bombings blamed on al Qaeda, Iraqi government
figures showed on Saturday.
Reuters - Texas was supposed to be a bastion of
support for Hillary Clinton in the battle for the U.S.
Democratic presidential nomination, but it may turn out to be
her Alamo.
AP - A power failure that plunged large parts of Florida into the dark this week was caused primarily by human error, the state's largest electric company said Friday.
AP - Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers committed no crime.
AP - Authorities on Friday confirmed that the deadly toxin ricin was found in a motel room most recently occupied by a man who has been in critical condition with breathing problems at a hospital for more than two weeks.
AP - A 17-year-old boy was arrested Friday and charged with fatally shooting his mother, who was a sheriff's deputy, and his two small sisters, authorities said.
AP - John McCain is refusing to renounce the endorsement of a prominent Texas televangelist who Democrats say peddles anti-Catholic and other intolerant speech.
