AP - More than 2,000 travelers were stranded at Red Cross shelters in the Colorado high country Monday as a threat of avalanches closed a stretch of Interstate 70 west of Denver.
December 2007
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Mon 31 Dec 2007
AP - Republican Haley Barbour’s choice to succeed Sen. Trent Lott is Rep. Roger Wicker, a conservative congressman, congressional officials with knowledge of the selection process said Monday.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
AP - A head-on collision between a pickup truck going the wrong way on an interstate and a minivan killed five people in the minivan, including an infant, a fire department spokesman said Monday.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Air Force Destroys Tamil Tiger Training Camp in Sri Lanka
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Air force jets attack and destroyed a Tamil Tiger training camp in war-torn northern Sri Lanka, while two days of infantry clashes killed at least 15 combatants, the military said.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
South Korea, the United States and Japan express disappointment as an end-of-year deadline for North Korea to declare all its nuclear programs under an aid-for-disarmament deal appear set to pass unmet.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Nearly 300 swimmers looking to cool off from a heat wave were stung by swarms of jellyfish that filled the shallow waters off a southeastern beach city, Brazilian media reported Sunday.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Video footage of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination raised new questions Monday about the government’s version of how she died, while elections officials said they would take another day to decide whether to delay critical Jan. 8 elections.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
EL FASHER, Sudan — The United Nations took partial control of the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Darfur Monday in a move meant to stem violence that has killed 200,000 people and driven 2.5 million from their homes.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
NAIROBI, Dec. 31 — The death toll from violent protests rose dramatically Monday in this East African country as police clamped down on ethnically charged riots fueled by allegations of vote-rigging in the presidential election.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber drove a truck rigged with explosives into a checkpoint manned by members of a U.S.-backed security volunteer group in a town north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 12 people, police and a member of the volunteer group said.