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Bush claims 'one victory in a war on terror'

By Scott Lindlaw · Friday, May 2,2003 1:41 a.m.

President Bush, aboard an aircraft carrier homebound from war, said Thursday night "the United States and our allies have prevailed" against Saddam Hussein's Iraq and will confront any other threatening nation suspected of terrorist ties.

Beijing builds SARS hospital

By Alyson Brodsy and Christopher Bodeen · Friday, May 2,2003 1:25 a.m.

BEIJING -- Nervous villagers around China's capital blocked roads with dirt and stones to keep out people with SARS, and ambulances delivered the first group of patients to a hastily built 1,000-bed SARS hospital outside Beijing.

Students settle file-swapping lawsuit

By Alex Veiga · Friday, May 2,2003 1:23 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The recording industry said Thursday it had settled federal lawsuits against four college students it accused of making thousands of songs available online for illegal downloading.

11 charged in NY fraternity death

Friday, May 2,2003 1:21 a.m.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- Eleven fraternity brothers have been charged in the death of a pledge who police say was forced to drink pitchers of water through a funnel until he vomited.

7 soldiers injured in grenade attack

By Alyson Brodsy and Charles J. Hanley · Friday, May 2,2003 12:32 a.m.

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Attackers lobbed two grenades into a U.S. Army compound Thursday, wounding seven soldiers just hours after the Americans had fired on Iraqi protesters in the street outside, a U.S. intelligence officer reported.

Rescuers search for survivors after earthquake in Turkey

By Alyson Brodsy and James C. Helicke · Friday, May 2,2003 12:31 a.m.

CELTIKSUYU, Turkey -- Rescuers dug frantically in the rubble of a middle-school dormitory Thursday, hunting for more than 100 children believed trapped after a powerful earthquake rumbled through southeastern Turkey.

Students from Malaysia have busy summer plans

By Jackie Walker and Jacqueline Walker · Thursday, May 1,2003 1:42 a.m.

Breathing deeply as she pulls out a chair, graduate student Jenifer Lasimbang sits with a sigh. She has been walking through campus not only to attend class and meetings, but to get in shape -- and to prepare for her return home to Borneo in Malaysia. There, the hills turn into mountains, and beaches meet rainforests. Lasimbang must be ready for the change in walking distance and terrain.

Rumsfeld tours heart of Baghdad

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt Kelley · Thursday, May 1,2003 1:30 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In the heart of Iraq's capital, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld walked through the massive doorway of one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces to tape a reassuring message to the Iraqi people.

Around The World

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, May 1,2003 12:39 a.m.

GENEVA -- In a play on the deck of cards distributed to U.S. troops in Iraq, anti-nuclear campaigners from Greenpeace on Wednesday issued their own most-wanted list -- with President Bush replacing Saddam Hussein as the ace of spades.

Bush signs new Amber Alert legislation

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Thursday, May 1,2003 12:37 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- News of missing children will speed to the public over radio, TV and electronic highway signs in more states under the Amber Alert legislation, signed Wednesday by President Bush.

US soldiers return fire from Iraqi protest; 13 dead

By Alyson Brodsy and Niko Price · Wednesday, April 30,2003 1:39 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. soldiers fired on protesters in a town near Baghdad after the troops took automatic weapons fire, U.S. officers said Tuesday. A hospital director said 13 Iraqis were killed and 75 wounded.

Supreme Court debates minority, state politics

By Alyson Brodsy and Gina Holland · Wednesday, April 30,2003 1:38 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with the issues of politics, race and elections in a case that will decide what states must do to protect minority voting rights.

Palestinian Parliament elects Abbas

By Alyson Brodsy and Karin Laub · Wednesday, April 30,2003 12:13 a.m.

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian parliament approved Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister Tuesday, clearing the final obstacle to the launch of a U.S.

WHO lifts Toronto travel advisory

By Alyson Brodsy and Clare Nullis · Wednesday, April 30,2003 12:12 a.m.

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization lifted its warning against nonessential travel to Toronto because of SARS on Tuesday, but in Asia the disease continued its spread as Hong Kong reported 12 new deaths, China nine and Singapore one.

Strikers hold 97 hostage in Nigeria

By Alyson Brodsy and Glenn McKenzie · Wednesday, April 30,2003 12:11 a.m.

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Striking Nigerian oil workers have taken about 100 foreign workers hostage on several offshore oil installations, company officials and union workers said Tuesday.

Suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills 3, injures 46

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 30,2003 12:10 a.m.

TEL AVIV, Israel -- A suicide bombing destroyed a seaside restaurant near the U.S. Embassy early Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens of others, officials said.

Test casts shadow of doubt on possible Iraqi chemical weapons

By Louis Meixler · Tuesday, April 29,2003 1:46 a.m.

BAIJI, Iraq -- A metal drum found in northern Iraq that initially tested positive for nerve and blister agents might instead contain rocket fuel, according to new tests, a U.S. chemical weapons expert said Monday.

200 Iraqi delegates discuss future

By Charles J. Hanley · Tuesday, April 29,2003 1:46 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Stressing unity in a divided land, more than 200 delegates from inside and outside Iraq haggled Monday over Iraq's future, meeting in Saddam Hussein's elaborate convention hall under the protection of a ring of U.S. tanks. Clear differences among the delegates emerged on the United States' involvement, with exiles generally seeking a diminished role for Washington.

Fatah leaders support Abbas' new cabinet

By Hadeel Wahdan · Tuesday, April 29,2003 12:54 a.m.

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement on Monday supported the Cabinet proposed by incoming Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, boosting the team's chances of winning the parliamentary approval required for release of a new peace plan.

Quarantine enforced in China as death toll rises to 131

By Christopher Bodeen · Monday, April 28,2003 12:45 a.m.

BEIJING -- Karaoke parlors, movie theaters and discos shut their doors Sunday under orders from Beijing officials trying to contain the spread of SARS, which claimed more lives in the Chinese capital, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore.