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Bolivia seeks charges against US rancher 18 Apr 08, 23:52 ET AP - Bolivia's government is seeking to charge an American rancher and his son - a former Mr. Bolivia pageant winner - for their alleged role in violent protests against President Evo Morales' land redistribution plan. more Military helicopter crashes in Mexico, killing 11 18 Apr 08, 22:20 ET AP - A military helicopter crashed in western Mexico on Friday, killing 11 soldiers and seriously injuring another, the Defense Department said. more Brazil police arrest dead girl's parents 18 Apr 08, 19:43 ET AP - The father and stepmother of a 5-year-old girl allegedly thrown from a sixth-floor apartment window were arrested Friday, Brazilian police said. more Tijuana doctors protest violence 18 Apr 08, 19:22 ET AP - Doctors in the Mexican border city of Tijuana have walked off their jobs for 12 hours to protest a wave of kidnappings against colleagues. more Carter meets Hamas chief despite US objections 18 Apr 08, 17:02 ET AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter on Friday asked Hamas to end its rocket fire against Israel at a controversial meeting in the Syrian capital with exiled leader Khaled Meshaal, the group said. more Textbook Case of Climate Misinformation 18 Apr 08, 16:53 ET OneWorld.net - NEW YORK, Apr 18 (OneWorld) - A nonprofit environmental group is calling on one of the country's largest textbook publishers to correct a school book that it says contains a discussion of global warming "so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man." more Palestinians tout Moscow peace summit but U.S. lukewarm 18 Apr 08, 15:54 ET Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday he was optimistic about a Middle East peace summit proposed by Moscow, but Washington struck a more cautious note. more GIs in Sadr City under fire from friends as well as foes 18 Apr 08, 15:27 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Three weeks after U.S. troops were ordered into the sprawling Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City to stop rockets from raining down on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad's Green Zone, they're caught in crossfire between Shiite militiamen and the mostly Shiite Iraqi army. more Basra's `dark ages' lifting as hard-line grip weakens 18 Apr 08, 14:57 ET AP - CD shops sell love songs again. Some women emerge from their homes without veils, and alcohol sellers are coming out of hiding in the southern city of Basra - where religious vigilantes have long enforced strict Islamic codes. more Olympic torch relay brings China woe rather than glory 18 Apr 08, 14:23 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BEIJING— The Olympic torch relay was meant to kick off China's moment in the sun, but it's turned into a public relations fiasco with ever-larger squads of police in foreign capitals shielding the torch from protesters. more Study faults US Iraq, Afghan reconstruction teams 18 Apr 08, 13:52 ET AFP - A new report warns says US provincial reconstruction teams (PRT), a much publicized program for rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, operate as ad hoc "pickup games" with no clear direction. more Japanese temple refuses to host Olympic torch 18 Apr 08, 12:13 ET AFP - Monks at an ancient Japanese Buddhist temple on Friday pulled out of hosting a ceremony for the protest-marred Olympic torch relay because of China's crackdown in Tibet. more Canada police arrest Liberal on fraud charge 18 Apr 08, 11:57 ET Reuters - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested a former senior Liberal official on Friday on fraud charges in connection with an advertising scandal that helped topple the Liberal government in 2006. more Georgia lobbies NATO on "dangerous" Russian move 18 Apr 08, 11:51 ET Reuters - Georgia held emergency talks with NATO and European Union allies on Friday, urging them to stand firm in pressing Russia to drop plans for closer ties with two rebel regions in the former Soviet republic. more Carter meets Hamas chief in Syria 18 Apr 08, 10:56 ET AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter on Friday started talks with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in the Syrian capital, according to an AFP photographer. more Hamas: Israeli captive will not be free until prisoner swap 18 Apr 08, 09:01 ET AP - Hamas says an Israeli soldier it captured two years ago will "not see the light" until Palestinian prisoners are released in a prisoner exchange. more Book by metallurgists blames rivets for Titanic tragedy 18 Apr 08, 08:47 ET AP - The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new book. more Israel calls for bids for West Bank settlement housing 18 Apr 08, 08:14 ET AFP - Israel on Friday invited bids to further develop two settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite international calls to freeze such activity seen as a major obstacle to Middle East peace efforts. more Media watchdog IPI condemns killing of Reuters cameraman 18 Apr 08, 07:31 ET AFP - The International Press Institute, a media watchdog, condemned on Friday the killing in the Gaza Strip this week of a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news service. more Iran should defend Islamic world: top cleric 18 Apr 08, 07:29 ET AFP - A high-ranking Iranian cleric on Friday said the country should grow into a military super power to defend all Muslims, following an army parade at a time of mounting tension with the West. more Carter arrives in Syria for talks with Hamas supremo 18 Apr 08, 07:21 ET AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter arrived in the Syrian capital Friday for talks with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, defying strong opposition from Israel and the United States. more 2 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan 18 Apr 08, 06:17 ET AP - The son of the Netherlands' top military officer was killed early Friday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the day after his father assumed command of the Dutch armed forces, the Defense Ministry said. more Iraq bombings target US-allied, anti-Al Qaeda groups 18 Apr 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - A series of bombings this week in Sunni areas of Iraq – in some cases targeting the Awakening Councils, or sahwas, that have resisted the spread of militant Islamist extremism – is raising concerns that Al Qaeda in Iraq may be regrouping following recent defeats. more Japanese Buddhist temple refuses Olympic torch 18 Apr 08, 03:45 ET AP - A major Japanese Buddhist temple withdrew Friday from a plan to host the Beijing Olympics torch relay, citing safety concerns and sympathy among its monks and worshippers for Tibetan protesters facing a Chinese crackdown. more

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