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Bombing in Chechnya kills at least 14; 145 injuries

By Yuri Bagrov · Wednesday, May 21,2003 6:19 p.m.

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Two women blew themselves up Wednesday at a religious ceremony in Chechnya, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens in the second major attack in the breakaway republic this week.

Taiwan police go house-to-house to enforce SARS quarantines

By Audra Ang · Wednesday, May 21,2003 6:18 p.m.

BEIJING -- Police in Taiwan went house-to-house and enforced SARS quarantines Wednesday, while railway authorities in China installed thermal scanners at some train stations to check passengers for fevers and keep the disease from spreading over their vast rail networks.

US officials worry about fighting SARS outbreak

By Alyson Brodsy and Daniel Yee · Tuesday, May 20,2003 9:58 a.m.

ATLANTA -- During a tuberculosis outbreak last year in Oklahoma, state health officials nailed a sign on a woman's house warning visitors not to enter. In Indiana, officials took a TB patient to court to ensure he took his medication.

Phillippines asks for economic aid

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Tuesday, May 20,2003 9:57 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo gets a grand reception Monday at the White House, a meeting with President Bush and a state dinner. It's payback for her loyal support of the fight against international terror, but she wants to take home more than memories.

Experts say US should seek Korean nuclear settlement

By Alyson Brodsy and George Gedda · Tuesday, May 20,2003 9:57 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The United States should abandon its refusal to open direct negotiations with North Korea and instead seek "a verifiable nuclear settlement" with that country, a report sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations says.

Saudi adviser says FBI will participate in investigation

By Alyson Brodsy and Ken Guggenheim · Tuesday, May 20,2003 9:56 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Contradicting his country's interior minister, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said Sunday that U.S. authorities will actively participate in the investigation of last week's bombings in Saudi Arabia. Adel al-Jubeir defended the kingdom's commitment to fighting terrorism and its response to U.S. terrorism warnings before last Monday's attacks.

Self-declared Iraqi mayor freed from US custody

Monday, May 19,2003 7:51 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi exile who was arrested by the U.S. military for declaring himself the mayor of Baghdad was freed Sunday and admitted the error of his ways, U.S. Central Command said. U.S. troops arrested Mohammed Muhsin al-Zubaidi two weeks ago and accused him of subverting their efforts to set up an administration in the wake of Saddam Hussein's fall.

Bush meets with South Korean leader

By Christopher Torchia · Monday, May 19,2003 7:51 p.m.

NEW YORK -- South Korea's leader traveled Sunday to the United States for consultations with President Bush on the North Korean nuclear crisis, keenly aware that Pyongyang will be looking for any sign of a rift as it plots strategy on its weapons development.

Palestinian leaders ready to get started on peace plan

By Barry Schweid · Monday, May 19,2003 7:42 p.m.

JERICHO, West Bank -- Palestinian leaders have put aside reservations to parts of the U.S.-developed plan for peace with Israel and are ready to get started on it, Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday, heeding an appeal by Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Tornadoes hit path in Midwest

By Betsy Taylor · Monday, May 19,2003 7:41 p.m.

Strong winds ravaged parts of Kentucky and Tennessee early Sunday, following a night when damaging tornadoes were reported in more than a dozen counties across northeastern Missouri and Illinois.

Democrats call tax cut plan 'hogwash'

By Genaro C. Armas · Monday, May 19,2003 7:41 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Ahead of Senate debate on a new round of tax cuts, Treasury Secretary John Snow on promoted President Bush's plan Sunday as the best way to firm up "a soggy economy" weighed down by job losses and slow growth.

Leadership shuffled at US reconstruction agency in Iraq

By Charles J. Hanley · Wednesday, May 14,2003 4:44 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- One top U.S. occupation official left her post Sunday, another was preparing to leave, and a new administrator arrived in the region, ready to take over, less than three weeks after their newborn reconstruction agency opened for business in the postwar chaos of Baghdad.

US declares Baath Party dead

By Ted Anthony · Wednesday, May 14,2003 4:43 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The United States declared Saddam Hussein's Baath Party dead Sunday, dispatching the war's commander to tell Iraqis that the instrument of their deposed dictator's power was dissolved and promising to purge its influence from the country it dominated for 35 years.

South swamped by rain

By Bill Poovey · Friday, May 9,2003 1:10 a.m.

Some of the heaviest rainfall in more than a century swamped parts of the South with flooding Thursday, forcing hundreds of people to flee homes and businesses in Georgia and Tennessee. Some 300 people left West Point, Ga., 75 miles southwest of Atlanta, as the Chattahoochee River rose toward its highest level since at least 1961, fed by several days of rain from pounding thunderstorms.

Victim's husband testifies

By Tim Talley · Friday, May 9,2003 1:08 a.m.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The husband of a nurse killed in the Oklahoma City bombing testified Thursday as part of the prosecution's effort to send conspirator Terry Nichols to trial on 160 state murder charges.

NATO expands, adds 7 nations

By Ken Guggenheim · Friday, May 9,2003 1:06 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate unanimously endorsed the addition of seven former communist nations to NATO on Thursday in what would be the largest expansion of the alliance formed as a bulwark against Soviet military power.

Bush builds postwar support

By Jennifer Loven · Friday, May 9,2003 1:06 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- A day before kicking off another U.N. battle over Iraq, President Bush tried to build support Thursday for his postwar goals, filling the White House with leaders of countries allied behind the U.S.-led military campaign.

Iraqi police return to work in Baghdad

By Niko Price · Monday, May 5,2003 1:34 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Police in Iraq's capital returned to work in force Sunday, but there were few patrols on Baghdad's lawless streets as officers struggled to navigate a chaotic new order that had yet to determine salaries, responsibilities or even chain of command. The verdict: in Baghdad, even some of the police don't feel safe yet.

Last victims recovered from rubble

By James C. Helicke · Monday, May 5,2003 12:47 a.m.

CELTIKSUYU, Turkey -- Fikret Nimetligil spent three days identifying the bodies of his students pulled from the rubble of a school dormitory that collapsed in last week's earthquake.

New findings place feces as SARS carrier

By Emma Ross · Monday, May 5,2003 12:46 a.m.

New scientific findings indicate that feces may be a more important method of spreading the SARS virus than originally thought, the World Health Organization said Sunday.