| | Canada's prime minister calls early election
Sep 7 2008 1:41PM CT
TORONTO (AP) - Canada's prime minister on Sunday triggered an early election, dissolving Parliament in a bid to bolster his party's grip on power in a vote next month that will be the country's third national ballot in four years. | | |
Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again
Sep 7 2008 9:45AM CT
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) - Ike ripped off roofs, sank boats and blocked the road for aid to reach a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit. | | |
Canada imposes sanctions against Zimbabwe
Sep 5 2008 7:46PM CT
TORONTO (AP) - Canada on Friday joined the U.S. and European Union in imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe's authoritarian regime headed by President Robert Mugabe. | | |
Many flee Turks and Caicos as 'Ike' approaches
Sep 5 2008 7:09PM CT
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm on Friday, prompting an exodus of tourists and even longtime residents from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain. | | |
Venezuela captures politician wanted in Colombia
Sep 5 2008 3:53PM CT
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan authorities have captured a former Colombian senator wanted on charges of conspiring with paramilitaries to kidnap a reputed political rival. | | |
First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city
Sep 5 2008 1:31PM CT
GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) - A ship carrying 33 tons of U.N. relief supplies docked in Gonaives on Friday, the first significant aid delivery to tens of thousands of people who have gone with little food or clean water for four days. | | |
Nicaragua recognizes South Ossetia, Abkhazia
Sep 5 2008 1:17PM CT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaragua on Friday became the first country other than Russia to formally recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, giving Moscow a victory in its battle with Georgia over the two breakaway provinces. | | |
Bolivia moving Mideast embassy to Iran from Egypt
Sep 5 2008 12:11PM CT
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivia's leftist president says he's moving the country's lone Middle Eastern embassy to Iran as he builds increasingly warm ties with one of Washington's least-favorite countries. | | |
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