SEOUL, (AP) — North Korea stepped up its anti-U.S. rhetoric yesterday, accusing Washington of mounting military pressure on the regime and vowing to respond to any pre-emptive U.S. attack with an "annihilating" nuclear strike.
Geologists issue dire global-warning forecast
DENNIS BUECKERT
OTTAWA — So the warnings of harsher heat waves, stronger hurricanes and rising seas fail to impress. How about volcanic eruptions in the Arctic, or a tsunami off the coast of Newfoundland?
Cuffed woman steals cruiser
RYAN CUREATZ
Free Press, July 4 – An embarrassed Chatham-Kent police officer watched as a woman he’d arrested and cuffed only moments earlier drove off with his cruiser.
The Houdini-like escape — which involved a chase and a crash into a river — began about noon Sunday when a rookie officer arrested a woman he found slumped over in a car parked in the middle of Base Line Road in Wallaceburg, Staff Sgt. Don Vitek said yesterday.
Huge asteroid skips past harmlessly
LOS ANGELES, July 4 (AP) – A huge asteroid whizzed by Earth early yesterday, passing about 433,000 kilometres from the planet’s surface — slightly farther away than the moon.
Iran says call to suspend enrichment not ‘reasonable’
TEHRAN, July 3, 2006 (AFP) – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said Monday the international community’s proposal for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment was unreasonable, ahead of a key meeting with the EU on the nuclear dispute.
Bush, Annan see WTO talks at ‘critical stage’ — US official
WASHINGTON, July 3, 2006 (AFP) – US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan agreed Monday that World Trade Organization talks were at a "critical stage", a White House official said after the two leaders spoke by telephone.
Pomegranates: more than just a fruit in Afghanistan
Sardar Ahmad
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan, July 4, 2006 (AFP) – President Hamid Karzai boasts that Kandahar’s pomegranates are the best in the world; others say they contain the Almighty’s miracle cures. Desperate poets liken their shape to the breasts of their veiled lovers.
World Cup 2006 factfile: Portugal
MUNICH, July 4, 2006 (AFP) – Factfile on Portugal who play France in the World Cup semi-finals here on Wednesday:-
Iran says may give nuclear response early August
TEHRAN, July 4, 2006 (AFP) – Iran could give its response to an international offer aimed at ending a nuclear standoff around August 6, chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani was quoted as saying Tuesday.
"Our negotiations with the Europeans will be on Wednesday, but it is only the beginning of the talks and our definite response to their proposals will be ready around middle of (the Iranian month of) Mordad," or around August 6, Larijani was quoted as saying on state-run television.
Turkey lobbies Syria to help defuse Mideast crisis
ANKARA, July 4, 2006 (AFP) – Turkey has sent a special envoy to meet with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in a bid to convince Damascus to help defuse a mounting crisis between Israel and the Palestinians, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said here Tuesday.
