AP Worldstream back issues from Friday, January 4:
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Jan 04, 2008 ... EDITORS: The Associated Press closes its news cycle for Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, and begins its report for Friday, Jan. 4, 2008. The AP news report is protected by copyright, which gives the AP ...
Rally called off after Kenya violence erupts; attorney general calls for vote probe
Jan 04, 2008; ... Police have used tear gas, water cannons and batons to block thousands of people from protesting Kenya's disputed election amid a political deadlock between the president and his chief rival. The U.S. and Europe pushed for reconciliation, but said a "made-in-Kenya solution" ...
Rally called off after Kenya violence erupts; attorney general calls for vote probe
Jan 04, 2008; ... Police have used tear gas, water cannons and batons to block thousands of people from protesting Kenya's disputed election amid a political deadlock between the president and his chief rival. The U.S. and Europe pushed for reconciliation, but said a "made-in-Kenya solution" ...
5 killed, 67 wounded by car bomb in southeastern Turkey
Jan 04, 2008; ... Suspected Kurdish rebels have detonated a car bomb near a bus carrying soldiers in a Kurdish-dominated city in southeastern Turkey, killing five people and wounding 67. Thirty soldiers were among those injured in the attack Thursday, the deadliest against Turkish troops since an Oct ....
5 killed, 67 wounded by car bomb in southeastern Turkey
Jan 04, 2008; ... Suspected Kurdish rebels have detonated a car bomb near a bus carrying soldiers in a Kurdish-dominated city in southeastern Turkey, killing five people and wounding 67. Thirty soldiers were among those injured in the attack Thursday, the deadliest against Turkish troops since an Oct ....
Friday, January 11
Jan 04, 2008; ... Today is Friday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2008. There are 355 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 49 B.C. - Roman emperor Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon river and moves his troops into an offensive position in the war against Pompeii. ...
WORLD SPORTS at 0000 GMT
Jan 04, 2008 ... SOCCER: COPA DEL REY: Levante, Zaragoza advance in Copa MADRID, Spain _ Sergio Garcia headed Gabriel Fernandez's cross in the second minute of injury time to put Zaragoza into the fifth round of the Copa Del Rey with a 3-1 victory over third-division Pontevedra on Thursday ....
Lawyer says Lohan 'back on track' after caught drinking on video in Capri
Jan 04, 2008 ... Lindsay Lohan rang in the New Year drinking champagne in Italy, but her attorney says the actress is "back on track" in terms of sobriety. A video obtained by The Associated Press shows Lohan, who spent much of 2007 in and out of rehab, swigging champagne from a bottle while ...
Friday, January 11
Jan 04, 2008; ... Today is Friday, Jan. 11, the 11th day of 2008. There are 355 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 49 B.C. - Roman emperor Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon river and moves his troops into an offensive position in the war against Pompeii. ...
Lawyer says Lohan 'back on track' after caught drinking on video in Capri
Jan 04, 2008 ... Lindsay Lohan rang in the New Year drinking champagne in Italy, but her attorney says the actress is "back on track" in terms of sobriety. A video obtained by The Associated Press shows Lohan, who spent much of 2007 in and out of rehab, swigging champagne from a bottle while ...
North Africa's Al-Qaida takes credit for latest Algeria suicide bombing
Jan 04, 2008 ... Al-Qaida's Algerian branch has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack that killed four police officers, according to a statement that appeared on militant Web sites. A vehicle rigged with explosives ripped the walls off the police station in Naciria, east of the capital, on ...
Judge wants more from couple suing DiCaprio over construction
Jan 04, 2008 ... Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbors will have to show more proof if they want to sue him for building a basketball court they claim destabilized their California property, a judge ruled. For the second time in three months, the judge said Thursday the complaint seeking at least ...
North Africa's Al-Qaida takes credit for latest Algeria suicide bombing
Jan 04, 2008 ... Al-Qaida's Algerian branch has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack that killed four police officers, according to a statement that appeared on militant Web sites. A vehicle rigged with explosives ripped the walls off the police station in Naciria, east of the capital, on ...
Judge wants more from couple suing DiCaprio over construction
Jan 04, 2008 ... Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbors will have to show more proof if they want to sue him for building a basketball court they claim destabilized their California property, a judge ruled. For the second time in three months, the judge said Thursday the complaint seeking at least ...
AP Weekly Sports Calendar
Jan 04, 2008 ... EDITORS: These are among the top sports events of the week. Coverage of most of these events will move on this circuit: FRIDAY, Jan. 4: Innsbruck, Austria _ ski jumping, World Cup, Four Hills event. Perth, Australia _ tennis, men, women, Hopman ...
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Jan 04, 2008 ... EDITORS: These are among the top sports events of the week. Coverage of most of these events will move on this circuit: FRIDAY, Jan. 4: Innsbruck, Austria _ ski jumping, World Cup, Four Hills event. Perth, Australia _ tennis, men, women, Hopman ...
Israel hits back for rocket fire, killing 9 in Gaza attacks, including 3 civilians
Jan 04, 2008; ... Israel and Gaza militants escalated their simmering conflict less than a week before the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, pushing peacemaking into the background with the possibility of a full-scale armed conflict erupting. Palestinians fired a Katyusha rocket Thursday at the ...
Israel hits back for rocket fire, killing 9 in Gaza attacks, including 3 civilians
Jan 04, 2008; ... Israel and Gaza militants escalated their simmering conflict less than a week before the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, pushing peacemaking into the background with the possibility of a full-scale armed conflict erupting. Palestinians fired a Katyusha rocket Thursday at the ...
Clinton, Obama, Edwards seek edge in first contest of US presidential campaign
Jan 04, 2008 ... Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards fought for first place Thursday in Iowa's caucuses, the initial, critical test in the campaign for the party's 2008 nomination for U.S. president. In the Republican race, Mitt Romney's well-financed campaign tried to fend ...
Britain's weather office: 2008 likely to be among 10 hottest years since 1850
Jan 04, 2008; ... This year is forecast to be among the top 10 hottest years on record, according to Britain's weather office, despite a strong cooling effect predicted from the tropical weather phenomenon known as La Nina. The global surface temperature in 2008 will rise 0.37 degrees Celsius (0.67 ...
Clinton, Obama, Edwards seek edge in first contest of US presidential campaign
Jan 04, 2008 ... Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards fought for first place Thursday in Iowa's caucuses, the initial, critical test in the campaign for the party's 2008 nomination for U.S. president. In the Republican race, Mitt Romney's well-financed campaign tried to fend ...
Court extends custody of three suspects, discloses alleged terrorist plot
Jan 04, 2008; ... A Dutch court has ordered three suspects held for two weeks to investigate suspicions they were preparing a terrorist explosion, said the national prosecutors' office. The suspects were arrested in Rotterdam by a special anti-terrorism unit on New Year's Eve on the basis of ...
Court extends custody of three suspects, discloses alleged terrorist plot
Jan 04, 2008; ... A Dutch court has ordered three suspects held for two weeks to investigate suspicions they were preparing a terrorist explosion, said the national prosecutors' office. The suspects were arrested in Rotterdam by a special anti-terrorism unit on New Year's Eve on the basis of ...
Radical cleric al-Sadr makes overture toward rival Shiite leader in Iraq
Jan 04, 2008; ... Representatives of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met with officials from his chief rival's party in an effort to cement a tenuous peace agreement the two signed in October after violent clashes between their followers. Thursday's meeting was at least the second formal overture ...
Radical cleric al-Sadr makes overture toward rival Shiite leader in Iraq
Jan 04, 2008; ... Representatives of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met with officials from his chief rival's party in an effort to cement a tenuous peace agreement the two signed in October after violent clashes between their followers. Thursday's meeting was at least the second formal overture ...
Exile Myanmir network to begin daily television broadcasts to pro-democracy activists at home
Jan 04, 2008 ... The exile Myanmar network Democratic Voice of Burma has said it will start daily television broadcasts for the pro-democracy movement at home, a sharp increase on its current one hour per week of television transmissions. The Oslo-based network's radio, television and Internet reports ...
Japanese stocks start new year down amid US jitters, high oil prices
Jan 04, 2008 ... Japanese stock prices fell Friday, losing ground in early transactions after jittery trade on Wall Street amid concerns about the U.S. economy and rising oil prices. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index lost 189.27 points, or 1.24 percent, to 15,118.51 points on the Tokyo Stock ...
Japanese stocks start new year down amid US jitters, high oil prices
Jan 04, 2008 ... Japanese stock prices fell Friday, losing ground in early transactions after jittery trade on Wall Street amid concerns about the U.S. economy and rising oil prices. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index lost 189.27 points, or 1.24 percent, to 15,118.51 points on the Tokyo Stock ...
New Kosovo parliament to be sworn in amid expectations of independence from Serbia
Jan 04, 2008; ... Kosovo's legislators were to be sworn into office Friday in the first session of a new parliament widely expected to declare independence from Serbia early this year. The separatist Democratic Party of Kosovo of the former rebel leader Hashim Thaci won most seats in November elections ...
US dollar higher against the Japanese yen
Jan 04, 2008 ... The U.S. dollar was trading at 109.54 yen at 8:50 a.m. Friday ...
New Kosovo parliament to be sworn in amid expectations of independence from Serbia
Jan 04, 2008; ... Kosovo's legislators were to be sworn into office Friday in the first session of a new parliament widely expected to declare independence from Serbia early this year. The separatist Democratic Party of Kosovo of the former rebel leader Hashim Thaci won most seats in November elections ...
US dollar higher against the Japanese yen
Jan 04, 2008 ... The U.S. dollar was trading at 109.54 yen at 8:50 a.m. Friday ...
New Zealand-Bangladesh 1st test scoreboard
Jan 04, 2008 ... Scoreboard Friday on the first day of the first cricket test between New Zealand and Bangladesh at the University Oval: New Zealand won the toss Bangladesh, 1st Innings Tamim Iqbal not out 41 Zunaed Siddique c Fleming b Martin 1 Habibul ...
New Zealand-Bangladesh 1st test scoreboard
Jan 04, 2008 ... Scoreboard Friday on the first day of the first cricket test between New Zealand and Bangladesh at the University Oval: New Zealand won the toss Bangladesh, 1st Innings Tamim Iqbal not out 41 Zunaed Siddique c Fleming b Martin 1 Habibul ...
Children with severe pneumonia can be treated at home, doctors say
Jan 04, 2008; ... Children with severe pneumonia can be treated just as effectively at home as in a hospital, according to new research. Doctors in Pakistan found that children taking antibiotics at home were as likely to survive serious pneumonia as those treated in hospitals. The study was published ...
Children with severe pneumonia can be treated at home, doctors say
Jan 04, 2008; ... Children with severe pneumonia can be treated just as effectively at home as in a hospital, according to new research. Doctors in Pakistan found that children taking antibiotics at home were as likely to survive serious pneumonia as those treated in hospitals. The study was published ...
Desperate Americans seek unproven cell treatments in China
Jan 04, 2008; ... They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments _ and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China. They mortgage their ...
Desperate Americans seek unproven cell treatments in China
Jan 04, 2008; ... They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments _ and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China. They mortgage their ...
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Jan 04, 2008; ... Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world: ___ Jan. 2, 2008 The Standard, Nairobi, Kenya, on the elections and the resulting crisis: The nation is bleeding. The people are weeping. We are ominously moving towards the picture of ...
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Jan 04, 2008; ... Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world: ___ Jan. 2, 2008 The Standard, Nairobi, Kenya, on the elections and the resulting crisis: The nation is bleeding. The people are weeping. We are ominously moving towards the picture of ...
Book market reflects mood, scars and resilience of Baghdad
Jan 04, 2008 ... EDITOR'S NOTE _ An Associated Press correspondent who often visits Baghdad's book market finds it to be a useful gauge of the city's ups and downs. On his latest visit he discovers the atmosphere has somewhat improved. %byline(By HAMZA HENDAWI%) %bytitle(Associated Press ...
Book market reflects mood, scars and resilience of Baghdad
Jan 04, 2008 ... EDITOR'S NOTE _ An Associated Press correspondent who often visits Baghdad's book market finds it to be a useful gauge of the city's ups and downs. On his latest visit he discovers the atmosphere has somewhat improved. By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press Writer ...
Bangladesh 88-4 at lunch on 1st day, 1st test
Jan 04, 2008 ... Chris Martin claimed three wickets in the first 40 minutes of the first test cricket between New Zealand and Bangladesh on Friday to help send the tourists to lunch at 88 for four. Daniel Vettori won his seventh straight toss since succeeding Stephen Fleming as New Zealand captain and ...
Bangladesh 88-4 at lunch on 1st day, 1st test
Jan 04, 2008 ... Chris Martin claimed three wickets in the first 40 minutes of the first test cricket between New Zealand and Bangladesh on Friday to help send the tourists to lunch at 88 for four. Daniel Vettori won his seventh straight toss since succeeding Stephen Fleming as New Zealand captain and ...
Ne-Yo sues promoter over being dropped from R. Kelly's tour
Jan 04, 2008 ... Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo claims he was fired as an opening act for R. Kelly because the audience and critics liked him better. Ne-Yo, whose real name is Shaffer Smith, and Compound Touring Inc., sued the promoter of R. Kelly's tour, Georgia-based Rowe Entertainment Inc., on Monday. The ...
Ne-Yo sues promoter over being dropped from R. Kelly's tour
Jan 04, 2008 ... Singer-songwriter Ne-Yo claims he was fired as an opening act for R. Kelly because the audience and critics liked him better. Ne-Yo, whose real name is Shaffer Smith, and Compound Touring Inc., sued the promoter of R. Kelly's tour, Georgia-based Rowe Entertainment Inc., on Monday. The ...
Polish women imprisoned under Stalin remember horrors of torture, separation from children
Jan 04, 2008; ... Janina Wojnarowska hesitantly lifts her blouse to show the thin white scar where part of her breast used to be. It is a vestige of the horrors she endured in a freezing Stalin-era prison, where she gave birth and was prevented from nursing her baby boy. "I could not feed my son ...
Polish women imprisoned under Stalin remember horrors of torture, separation from children
Jan 04, 2008; ... Janina Wojnarowska hesitantly lifts her blouse to show the thin white scar where part of her breast used to be. It is a vestige of the horrors she endured in a freezing Stalin-era prison, where she gave birth and was prevented from nursing her baby boy. "I could not feed my son ...
Japanese stocks plunge amid US jitters, high oil prices
Jan 04, 2008 ... Japanese stock prices plunged Friday, losing ground in early transactions after jittery trade on Wall Street amid concerns about the U.S. economy and rising oil prices. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index lost 430.13 points, ...
Japanese stocks plunge amid US jitters, high oil prices
Jan 04, 2008 ... Japanese stock prices plunged Friday, losing ground in early transactions after jittery trade on Wall Street amid concerns about the U.S. economy and rising oil prices. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index lost 430.13 points, ...
Sunni and Shiites oppose reopening bridge linking ancient Baghdad suburbs
Jan 04, 2008; ... For decades, the Imams bridge spanning the Tigris river linked two ancient Baghdad neighborhoods _ one Sunni, the other Shiite _ and illustrated the city's tradition of sectarian tolerance, as residents from both sides harmoniously intermingled. But the Imams was sealed and barricaded ...
Ice pioneer Thompson to tackle remote New Guinea glaciers, vanishing clues to climate
Jan 04, 2008; ... For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone. To the American ...
Sunni and Shiites oppose reopening bridge linking ancient Baghdad suburbs
Jan 04, 2008; ... For decades, the Imams bridge spanning the Tigris river linked two ancient Baghdad neighborhoods _ one Sunni, the other Shiite _ and illustrated the city's tradition of sectarian tolerance, as residents from both sides harmoniously intermingled. But the Imams was sealed and barricaded ...
Ice pioneer Thompson to tackle remote New Guinea glaciers, vanishing clues to climate
Jan 04, 2008; ... For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone. To the American ...
Atrocities against Myanmar's minorities continue as world focuses on urban dissent, groups say
Jan 04, 2008; ... Myanmar's army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive whose past human rights violations have been far greater than those against urban protesters that riveted world attention last fall, aid and rebel groups say. The groups provide ...
Atrocities against Myanmar's minorities continue as world focuses on urban dissent, groups say
Jan 04, 2008; ... Myanmar's army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive whose past human rights violations have been far greater than those against urban protesters that riveted world attention last fall, aid and rebel groups say. The groups provide ...
Chilean interior minister resigns from Bachelet's Cabinet
Jan 04, 2008 ... Interior Minister Belisario Velasco, one of the most powerful officials in President Michelle Bachelet's government, resigned Thursday as part of an expected Cabinet shake-up. Velasco said Bachelet accepted his resignation after "a cordial meeting" at Chile's presidential ...
Chilean interior minister resigns from Bachelet's Cabinet
Jan 04, 2008 ... Interior Minister Belisario Velasco, one of the most powerful officials in President Michelle Bachelet's government, resigned Thursday as part of an expected Cabinet shake-up. Velasco said Bachelet accepted his resignation after "a cordial meeting" at Chile's presidential ...
Paul Thomas Anderson drills for an unlikely masterpiece in `There Will Be Blood'
Jan 04, 2008; ... In the last conversation Paul Thomas Anderson had with Robert Altman, his friend and mentor told him: "I think this film is something different for you." "It was so sweet," Anderson recently recalled. "He had no reason to base it on anything except just a ...
Paul Thomas Anderson drills for an unlikely masterpiece in `There Will Be Blood'
Jan 04, 2008; ... In the last conversation Paul Thomas Anderson had with Robert Altman, his friend and mentor told him: "I think this film is something different for you." "It was so sweet," Anderson recently recalled. "He had no reason to base it on anything except just a ...
Accused spammer charged in Detroit with manipulating Chinese stock prices
Jan 04, 2008; ... A man described as one of America's most prolific senders of spam e-mail was among 11 people accused in an indictment of defrauding people by manipulating Chinese stock prices. Alan Ralsky, 52, of suburban West Bloomfield Township, made about $3 million (2.03 million) through the ...
Accused spammer charged in Detroit with manipulating Chinese stock prices
Jan 04, 2008; ... A man described as one of America's most prolific senders of spam e-mail was among 11 people accused in an indictment of defrauding people by manipulating Chinese stock prices. Alan Ralsky, 52, of suburban West Bloomfield Township, made about $3 million (euro2.03 million) through the ...
Japanese stocks start new year down amid US jitters, high oil prices
Jan 04, 2008 ... Japanese stock prices plunged Friday, losing ground in early transactions after jittery trade on Wall Street amid concerns about the U.S. economy and rising oil prices. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index lost 430.13 points, or 2.81 percent, to 14,877.65 points on the Tokyo Stock ...
Correction: Hollywood Labor-Golden Globes
Jan 04, 2008 ... In a Jan. 2-3 story about the Writers Guild of America strike's impact on the Golden Globe Awards, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Screen Actors Guild would advise its members to boycott the show. ...
Japanese stocks start new year down amid US jitters, high oil prices
Jan 04, 2008 ... Japanese stock prices plunged Friday, losing ground in early transactions after jittery trade on Wall Street amid concerns about the U.S. economy and rising oil prices. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index lost 430.13 points, or 2.81 percent, to 14,877.65 points on the Tokyo Stock ...