By AARON FAVILA
Associated Press Writer
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Thousands of Filipinos in a Manila suburb honored their patron saint John the Baptist by drenching passers-by and motorists in a raucous annual water festival Wednesday.
Police intensified street patrols to prevent any scuffles in San Juan, where armies of residents – some armed with drums of rainwater [...]
By MARK PRATT
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) – Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole, has died, her husband said Wednesday. She was 57.
Her husband, Thomas FitzGerald, said she died Tuesday at their home in Southwick, Massachusetts. Her cancer had been in remission [...]
By MUNIR AHMAD
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – The head of Pakistan’s Taliban attended a funeral shortly before a suspected U.S. missile struck, killing about 80 people, two intelligence officials said Wednesday, but a top Taliban aide denied that the leader had a close call.
Baitullah Mehsud, accused of plotting suicide bombings and the assassination Tuesday [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) – A Vatican spokesman says Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama will hold a much-anticipated meeting at the Vatican on July 10.
The Rev. Federico Lombardi said Wednesday the Vatican has informed the White House that the pope is available to meet the president that afternoon. The meeting will be at the [...]
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO (AP) – Iran’s supreme leader said Wednesday that the government would not yield to demonstrators demanding the annulment of a disputed presidential election. The wife of the opposition leader said protesters would not buckle under a situation she compared to martial law.
Reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi’s official Web site said [...]
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press Writer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.
Off China’s coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting [...]
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – A human rights group has urged Kosovo’s authorities to shut down a lead-contaminated camp that has housed persecuted Gypsies since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report made public on Wednesday that authorities must relocate Kosovo Gypsies and provide medical treatment for [...]
By STEVE WEIZMAN
Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Paris Wednesday for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as differences with the United States over settlements emerged as a key issue.
An Israeli official said his government postponed a meetingbetween Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Washington’s top Mideast envoy because it wanted [...]
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) – Police in Russia’s troubled Chechnya region say two civilians have been killed and five police wounded in separate roadside bomb blasts.
Russia’s violence-riddled southern fringe is already reeling from Monday’s assassination attempt on the president of the neighboring Ingushetia province.
Chechnya’s Interior Ministry said a roadside bomb destroyed a car
late Tuesday and killed [...]
By KARIN LAUB
CAIRO (AP) — Iran expelled two British diplomats Tuesday after bitterly accusing Britain of meddling and spying. The government also dealt a fresh blow to the opposition by making clear it will not hold a new vote despite charges of fraud.
State TV said hard-line students protested outside the British Embassy in Tehran, where [...]
