This is AP News Minute. I. New fighting in Basra, Iraq. Reports indicate militiamen have overrun a number of police stations and an oil pipeline has been blown up. Also today more rockets were fired into the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Bagdad. I...
This is AP News Minute. 1. People across the country marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. In Atlanta , his children laid a wreath at his tomb. Many more gathered at the Memphis Hotel where he was gunned do...
This is AP News Minute. Authorities are continuing to search the polygamist compound in Texas for evidence that a teenage girl was married to a 50-year-old member of the sect. Buses filled with women and children were removed from the retreat of the...
By Kari Barber Dakar 11 October 2007 It has been just over half a year since Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua was elected to power in elections marred by violence and widely viewed as fraudulent. Analysts say since that time Mr. Yar'Adua has gone to...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 14 September 2007 The Russian Parliament has overwhelmingly approved President Vladimir Putin's choice to be the country's new Prime Minister. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports that until Viktor Zubkov's surpris...
By Sonja Pace London 28 June 2007 A jailed Libyan intelligence officer has won the right to appeal his conviction in the downing of an American airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. A judicial review panel now says he may have been wrongly convi...
By Sonja Pace London 12 April 2007 The director of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the family of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston are appealing Thursday for the journalist's release. Johnston went missing in Gaza one month ago and is presumed...
By William Eagle Washington,DC 29 December 2006 Parts of Sudan and Ivory Coast are fighting their central governments; thousands of internally displaced people and refugees are looking for shelter or hoping to return home in West and East Africa; an...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 14 February 2006 The U.N. Security Council has issued an appeal for calm in Haiti while results of last week's elections are finalized. A statement unanimously approve...
By Scott Stearns White House 08 February 2006 President George Bush is calling on Congress to approve his 2007 budget requests and make permanent a series of record tax cuts. George Bush speaks to Bus...