AP - Two escaped killers were captured on a Wyoming highway after stealing a sport utility vehicle and leading police on an 11-mile chase that left one of the convicts critically wounded, authorities said.
September 2007
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Sun 30 Sep 2007
AP - The U.S. Embassy on Sunday criticized a Senate resolution that could lead to a division of the country into sectarian or ethnic territories, agreeing with a swath of Iraqi leaders in saying the proposal “would produce extraordinary suffering and bloodshed.”
Sun 30 Sep 2007
AP - President Hamid Karzai’s office said Sunday that there is “serious debate” among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms, while a spokesman for the militants said they will “never” negotiate with Afghan authorities until foreign troops leave.
Sun 30 Sep 2007
AFP - Actress Lois Maxwell, who was known to millions of fans through her role as Miss Moneypenny in a series of Bond movies, has died in Australia, an official said Sunday. She was 80.
Sun 30 Sep 2007
AFP - A UN envoy met Myanmar's detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and leaders of the ruling junta Sunday, as he tried to broker an end to a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests.
Sun 30 Sep 2007
AP - Three strong earthquakes struck Sunday near New Zealand and the U.S. territory of Guam in remote parts of the Pacific Ocean, monitoring agencies said.
Sun 30 Sep 2007
AP - Myanmar’s government unexpectedly allowed the country’s leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly on Sunday and meet with a U.N. envoy trying to persuade the junta to ease its crackdown against a pro-democracy uprising.
Sun 30 Sep 2007
Darfur attack kills 10 AU troops, 50 missing (Reuters)
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Reuters - Ten African Union soldiers were killed
and 50 were missing after armed men launched an assault on an
AU base in Darfur, the worst attack on AU troops since they
deployed in Sudan's violent west in 2004.
Sun 30 Sep 2007
AP - Iraq’s foreign minister says Iran is punishing the Kurdish region for something the Kurdish authorities were not responsible for — the arrest of an Iranian official by the U.S. military on Sept. 20.
Sun 30 Sep 2007
On Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois will embark on a four-day campaign swing through Iowa, starting off with events that will mark the fifth anniversary of a speech he gave opposing the war at a rally in Chicago. His advisers have labeled it the “Judgment and Experience Tour,” and Obama’s s…