WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court (search) declined on Monday to consider whether Pennsylvania officials were wrong to keep Ralph Nader (search) off the presidential ballot last November. At issue was whether more than 6,000 signatures on Nader’s nomination papers were improperly deemed as invalid, leaving him short of the number …
Read More »Bush, Georgian President Discuss Ukraine
WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili (search) agreed Thursday that democracies in the former Soviet republics need to be bolstered. Specifically, they discussed the case of Ukraine (search), where a hotly disputed runoff election led to a second vote on Dec. 26. Saakashvili vacationed in the …
Read More »Delta May Expand Simplified Fare System
ATLANTA – A simpler, cheaper air fare schedule is reportedly coming to Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL), a move that could lure back customers to an airline struggling to avoid bankruptcy. Delta is planning to replicate nationwide a fare-cutting plan called SimpliFares (search) it has been testing since August in …
Read More »Car Bomb Kills Two, Hurts 10
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s (search) western district of Amiriyah Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 10, police officials said. The car was following a convoy of U.S. and Iraqi troops when it exploded near a gas station, the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, …
Read More »Marines Expand Tsunami Relief Operations
ABOARD THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD – U.S. Marines have expanded their role in Sumatra’s tsunami relief (search) operation after days of delays caused by Indonesian objections to armed U.S. troops and the setting up of a base camp on shore, officials said. In a major compromise, the Marines agreed not …
Read More »Bush Warns Iran on Iraq Elections
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Iran (search) should stay out of Iraq’s elections, President Bush said Wednesday on pan-Arab television. “Iranians should not be trying to unduly influence the elections,” Bush said of Sunday’s polls in an interview with the Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya, according to a White House transcript. U.S. and …
Read More »Inaugural Address Marks Policy Shift
WASHINGTON – President Bush’s (search) inauguration day speech was a 180-degree turnaround from the pre-2000 election campaign in which he said he didn’t believe it was the United States’ role to get involved in nation building. But an attack on American soil and an ongoing War on Terror (search) has …
Read More »Sunni Group Asks U.S. for Timetable
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s most influential Sunni (search) group will abandon its call for a boycott of Jan. 30 elections if the United States gives a timetable for withdrawing multinational forces, a spokesman for the group said Sunday. Members of the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars (search) relayed their request …
Read More »Was Former U.N. Official Wrongly Accused in Oil-for-Food Probe?
UNITED NATIONS – The secretive Volcker inquiry into the more than $110 billion United Nations Oil-for-Food (search) scandal plans to issue a third interim report later this month — to tie up “loose ends” from the previous two reports, as a committee spokesman recently put it. Having spent more than …
Read More »Iraqi Pol: Marines Killed My Cousin
UNITED NATIONS – Iraq’s U.N. ambassador accused U.S. Marines of killing his unarmed young cousin in what appeared to be “cold blood” and demanded an investigation and punishment for the perpetrators. In an e-mail to friends obtained Friday by The Associated Press, Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie (search) said the killing took …
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