In New Orleans, no shelter for those who stay
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own....
Katrina's unclaimed dead entombed, Gustav looms
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- At 9:38 a.m. on Friday, about 200 mourners rang handbells to mark the moment three years ago when New Orleans' levees were breached by high waters from Hurricane Katrina, flooding most of the city and leading to the deaths of about 1,600 people....
Demand for military bomb techs at all-time high
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) -- Many things have gone wrong for Navy Senior Chief Tommy Gura while disarming nearly 200 improvised explosive devices in Iraq. He's been shot at and targeted for mortar attacks. His robots have blown up and he's lost communication to call for backup....
Hurricane-force winds, heavy rain hit Phoenix area
PHOENIX (AP) -- A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, damaging several airliners and collapsing a brand-new college football facility....
2 airliners nearly collide over Caribbean
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two airliners were one minute from away from colliding when one of the planes turned away from the other over the Caribbean this week, federal authorities said Friday....
Gustav headed for current that fuels big storms
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The difference between a monster and a wimp for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often comes down to a small patch of warm deep water that's easy to miss. It's called the Loop Current, and hurricane trackers say Gustav is headed right for it, reminiscent of Katrina....
Georgia to cut diplomatic ties with Moscow
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said the move would only make things worse....
Thai protest alliance not so happy with democracy
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thai police fired tear gas at thousands of right-wing protesters besieging their headquarters Friday, while demonstrators outside the capital disrupted air and rail service in a growing campaign to unseat the prime minister....
Pakistan's presidential favorite under guard
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's presidential front-runner has moved into a tightly guarded government compound over security fears, officials said Friday as a militant campaign against the government led to more violence in the country's volatile northwest....
A hurricane again, Gustav plows toward Caymans
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) -- Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina....
Karadzic makes defiant stand before UN court
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made a defiant stand before a U.N. court preparing to try him on genocide charges, refusing to enter pleas Friday and branding the tribunal a NATO proxy out to "liquidate" him....
France: No EU sanctions against Russia imminent
PARIS (AP) -- The European Union is not expected to imposed sanctions on Russia at a summit next week but may name a special envoy to Georgia to ensure that a cease-fire there is observed, officials in Paris and Brussels said Friday....
Polish PM: nothing to fear over base
REDZIKOWO, Poland (AP) -- Poland's prime minister sought to reassure worried residents near the site of a planned U.S. missile defense base on Friday, pledging that they and the country would be more secure, despite threats from an angry Russia....
Media says Hezbollah hit helicopter by mistake
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Hezbollah on Friday handed over a man suspected of firing on a Lebanese army helicopter a day earlier that killed a navigator, the militant group said....
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