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Iran denies report U.S. plane forced to land
TEHRAN, 8:32 a.m. Oct. 7 (REUTERS)
A senior Iranian official denied on Tuesday a local news agency report that a U.S. military plane had violated the country's airspace and was forced to land, saying both the aircraft and the people on board were Hungarian.
The Pentagon also denied the report by Iran's semi-official Fars News agency, which came at a time of tension over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, and said all American planes were accounted for.
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10:51 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)Nobel physics prize goes to 2 Japanese, 1 American: American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half o Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter. TOKYO, 7:26 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Man nabbed for skinny dipping in Japan palace moat: Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in a busy Tokyo business district, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday.
7:32 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)Timetable for remaining Nobel Prize announcements: Dates and times for announcements of remaining 2008 Nobel Prizes: Wednesday, Oct. 8: Chemistry, no earlier than 5:45 a.m. EDT. MALE, 7:30 a.m. Oct. 7 (REUTERS)
Maldives gears up for historic presidential poll: The six candidates vying for president in the Maldives archipelago's first-ever multiparty elections on Tuesday finished their campaigns, in a poll seen as a referendum on President's Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's 30 year-rule.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, 6:26 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Somali pirate says ransom reduced to $8 million: A man on a hijacked ship carrying tanks and heavy weapons said Tuesday that the ransom had been reduced to US$8 million (euro5.87 million). It was unclear if he was officially speaking for the pirates holding the vessel.
BAGHDAD, 7:22 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Iraq's FM: 'Bold' decisions needed on bases deal: The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal to keep U.S. troops in this country next year but it will take “bold political decisions” to overcome the final hurdles, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday.
MOSCOW, 7:37 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Hundreds gather to remember slain Russian reporter: Hundreds of people gathered in central Moscow Tuesday to remember Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the second anniversary of her killing.
JOHANNESBURG, 7:29 a.m. Oct. 7 (REUTERS)
Mystery S.Africa killer disease may be Congo fever: A mystery disease that has killed three people in South Africa and put medical authorities on high alert may be Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a health official said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Iran, 7:19 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Iran says it forced down Western plane: Iranian news reports claimed Tuesday that Iran forced down a Western aircraft that accidentally entered its airspace, then allowed the plane to continue to Afghanistan after questioning its passengers.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, 6:59 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Kyrgyzstan rescuers search for quake survivors: Rescuers in Kyrgyzstan searched the rubble for signs of life Tuesday after an earthquake flattened a remote mountain village and killed at least 74 people.
LONDON, 6:52 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
London mayor urges faster Olympic police planning: Mayor Boris Johnson says authorities must speed up planning for security at London's 2012 Olympic games.
NAIROBI, 6:44 a.m. Oct. 7 (REUTERS)
Somali piracy monitor may be freed pending trial: A court ordered the release on Tuesday of a Kenyan who monitors piracy off Somalia pending his trial on charges of giving “alarming” information about the destination of tanks seized on a Ukrainian ship.
NAIROBI, Kenya, 6:42 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Kenya deporting U.S. author of anti-Obama book: The American author of a best-selling book attacking Barack Obama as unfit for the presidency was being deported from Kenya on Tuesday, a criminal investigations official said.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, 6:19 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Show of force: Putin the judo black belt on DVD: Vladimir Putin is out on video as a judo master. Russian state-controlled media already have shown the powerful prime minister at the wheel of massive racing truck, shirtless on a fishing excursion, and tracking a tiger through the Siberian forest – just a few of the he-man presentations designed to boost his public image.
NEW DELHI, 6:18 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Doctors clear Dalai Lama to resume foreign travel: The Dalai Lama underwent a second medical checkup in as many months Tuesday and doctors cleared him to resume foreign travel, said a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 6:15 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Iceland announces Russian loan, nationalizes bank: Iceland nationalized its second-largest bank Tuesday under emergency legislation and said it was negotiating a 4 billion-euro ($5.4 billion) loan from Russia to shore up the nation's finances amid a full-blown financial crisis.
LONDON, 5:58 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
European markets recover on rate cut hopes: European stocks posted modest gains Tuesday ahead of Wall Street's opening on hopes the world's leading central banks will cut interest rates soon, possibly in a coordinated manner to deal with the world financial crisis.
TSKHINVALI, Georgia, 5:46 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
Russia: Georgia troop pullback to start Wednesday: A top general says Russian forces will begin their withdrawal from a buffer zone in Georgia on Wednesday and be out within 24 hours.
PRAGUE, 5:12 a.m. Oct. 7 (REUTERS)
Czech support for shield ticks up as vote nears: Support for building a U.S. missile defence radar in the Czech Republic ticked up in the last months but most Czechs are still against it ahead of a parliamentary vote on the plan, opinion polls showed on Tuesday.
GENEVA, 5:08 a.m. Oct. 7 (AP)
U.N. says at least 5,000 flee violence in Congo: The U.N. refugee agency says at least 5,000 people have fled violence in northeastern Congo and sought shelter in neighboring Sudan over the last two weeks.
BEIJING, 6:20 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)9 killed when 2 strong quakes hit Tibet: Two earthquakes jolted the capital of Tibet and surrounding areas, killing at least nine people and collapsing hundreds of houses, China's state news agency said Tuesday. Rescuers rushed in to try to save people buried in the rubble. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, 2:56 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Hamas lawmakers: Abbas term ends in January: Hamas will cease to recognize Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president after Jan. 8 and replace him with one of its own leaders, according to a resolution approved by the Islamic movement's legislators Monday. BEIRUT, Lebanon, 3:29 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Lebanon, U.S. set up joint military commission: The United States and Lebanon on Monday set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation – a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected Lebanese president to Washington. WASHINGTON, 12:51 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
China cancels military contacts with U.S.: China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned $6.5 billion package of U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, American officials told The Associated Press on Monday. GENEVA, 1:29 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
1 bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown: A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday. MOGADISHU, Somalia, 1:41 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Mortar rounds hit market in Somalia, 17 killed: Mortar rounds slammed into a market in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least 17 people, after a failed insurgent attack on the presidential palace. MOSCOW, 1:42 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Israel's Olmert brings security concerns to Russia: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came to Moscow on Monday aiming to focus on Russian arms sales to Israel's enemies at meetings Russia hopes will bolster its image as a Middle East peacemaker. TORONTO, 1:57 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Canada bus beheading suspect fit to stand trial: A man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow bus passenger in Canada has been declared fit to stand trial, his lawyer said Monday.
LONDON, 11:38 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Europe governments go their own way on crisis: Individual European governments issued a cascade of deposit guarantees to shore up their banks but fell short of any coordinated action Monday to deal with the crisis sweeping financial markets, even as stock markets crashed and the euro sank to its lowest level for over a year.
NEVE ILAN, Israel, 2:14 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)Israeli 'Big Brother' shuts down for Yom Kippur: The television show “Big Brother” will confront a new reality in Israel Wednesday evening with the start of Yom Kippur. ZAGREB, Croatia, 3:10 p.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Croatia ministers fired after woman's killing: Croatia's prime minister fired the interior and justice ministers and the country's police chief Monday, hours after the “mafia-style” killing of a prominent lawyer's daughter.
NAIROBI, Kenya, 11:58 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
U.S. Navy says crew on hijacked ship off Somalia OK: The crew on a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry appear to be in good health, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said Monday.
BRUSSELS, Belgium, 11:36 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
NATO pushes for more action against Afghan drugs: NATO's top commander charged Monday that a handful of nations were preventing him sending troops against heroin producers and traffickers in Afghanistan because they worry that could provoke a backlash against allied troops.
CARACAS, Venezuela, 11:35 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Venezuela arrests 3 suspects in student's killing: Venezuelan police have arrested three suspects in the killing of a student leader who helped organize protests against a constitutional rewrite proposed by President Hugo Chavez.
VATICAN CITY, 11:15 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Rabbi at Vatican meeting condemns Iran president: A top rabbi addressing a worldwide meeting of Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican on Monday condemned the Iranian president's verbal attacks on Israel.
TRIPOLI, Libya, 11:09 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
U.S. opens trade office in Libya: The United States has opened a trade office in Libya, authorities in Tripoli said Monday, in the latest step in a concerted push to normalize relations after three decades of confrontations and sanctions imposed by Washington on the Arab nation.
SAO PAULO, Brazil, 11:03 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Latam stocks plunge on slowdown concerns: Latin American stocks plunged Monday – led by a precipitous drop in Brazilian shares – on concerns that the world is descending into a severe economic slowdown that could devastate the region's commodities-based economies and set back hard-won gains for the poor.
LONDON, 11:00 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
European rights group weighs Russia-Georgia crisis: Russia and Georgia could be suspended from Europe's top human rights body unless the two countries uphold their obligations to prevent abuses in the aftermath of their short but fierce war, the group's head said Monday.
HAVANA, 10:41 a.m. Oct. 6 (REUTERS)
Cuba hopes for good tourism season amid problems: The two hurricanes that ravaged Cuba at summer's end won't keep tourists from the Caribbean island during the high season but global economic woes might, industry watchers said Monday.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, 10:41 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Military: Suicide bomber kills 27 in Sri Lanka: A suicide bomber who hugged a former army general before detonating his explosive-laden vest killed 27 people gathered in a crowded opposition party office in northern Sri Lanka on Monday.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, 10:28 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Karadzic wants access to evidence on alleged deal: Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic wants U.N. war crimes prosecutors to turn over any evidence they have about an alleged deal he cut to avoid prosecution, saying he wants to use it in a motion to have his indictment dismissed.
BERN, Switzerland, 9:58 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Swiss charge 10 in mafia cigarette smuggling case: Switzerland's top prosecutor charged 10 people with laundering more than $1 billion dollars during a decade-long mafia cigarette smuggling operation, Swiss authorities said Monday.
BEIRUT, 9:29 a.m. Oct. 6 (REUTERS)
U.S. warns of October security risk in Lebanon: The U.S. embassy in Beirut has warned citizens of a security threat in Lebanon in the first half of October, linking the heightened risk to the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
9:27 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Key suspects in France-Angola arms traffic trial: Forty-two people went on trial Monday in Paris on a range of charges in what prosecutors say was a web of wrongdoing, including arms trafficking to Angola, money laundering and bribe-taking. Here's a look at a few of the high-profile defendants:
GAUHATI, India, 9:16 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Death toll now 49 in northeast India ethnic riots: Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast has left at least 49 people dead in four days including 19 killed on Monday, officials said.
MOSCOW, 9:14 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Russian stocks plunge by nearly 20 percent: Russia's benchmark stock exchange suffered its biggest-ever one-day loss as shares went into free fall on the back of falling oil prices and deepening fears about the global economy despite the passage of a $700 billion U.S. bank bailout.
LONDON, 9:12 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Britain: EU not ready to lift Zimbabwe sanctions: Britain's foreign secretary says European Union sanctions against Zimbabwe will be maintained until a new power-sharing government is in place.
TBILISI, Georgia, 9:01 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Russia steps up preparations for Georgia pullout: Russian forces stepped up preparations Monday to withdraw from bases and checkpoints surrounding two separatist regions in Georgia, four days before a deadline being closely watched by the West.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, 8:58 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Hungary: Four dead, 26 injured in train collision: A local passenger train ran into the back of an long-distance train Monday near Budapest, killing four people and injuring 26.
PARIS, 8:32 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Carlos the Jackal ordered back to French court: A French judicial official says the convicted Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal has been ordered back to court over four deadly bombings in 1982 and 1983.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 8:25 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Iceland's government backs guarantees deposits: The Icelandic government says it will guarantee all domestic savings deposits. The Icelandic prime minister's office said Monday that deposits in the country's commercial and savings banks would be “fully covered.”
8:17 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
German, 2 French share Nobel medicine prize: French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were cited for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in 1983.
PARIS, 8:13 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Hamas blames Israel for stalled Schalit talks: The exiled leader of Hamas says talks with Israel over the possible release of an Israeli sergeant are “at a standstill.”
OSLO, Norway, 7:53 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Member hurt: The crew of a Norwegian research base in the Antarctic was racing to clear snow and ice from a closed airfield so an injured team member could be flown to South Africa for treatment, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Monday.
CAIRO, Egypt, 7:52 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Egypt police stop Gaza convoy: Dozens of activists, mostly from Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood, were arrested Monday after attempting to send a supply convoy to the blockaded Gaza Strip, the organization and security officials said.
BEIJING, 7:51 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
China detains 6 more suspects in milk scandal: China pledged to improve food safety Monday after authorities detained six more people in the country's contaminated milk scandal as the government increases efforts to restore public trust in Chinese-made food products.
JAKARTA, Indonesia, 7:49 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Indonesian volcano erupts, spews flame and smoke: A volcano in central Indonesia erupted Monday, shooting clouds of smoke and flames into the night sky.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, 7:32 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Sudan reports surrender of rebel unit: The Sudanese military says 116 Darfur rebels have surrendered, and the U.N.-African Union mission is trying to confirm the report.
ANKARA, Turkey, 7:31 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Turkish planes bomb Kurdish hideout in north Iraq: Turkish warplanes bombed a Kurdish rebel hideout in northern Iraq on Monday – the third airstrike in as many days in retaliation for an attack that killed 15 soldiers.
MOSCOW, 7:30 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Russia seeks tycoon's extradition from Britain: Russia has asked Britain to extradite a former oil tycoon who fled after what he said was severe harassment by the government, an investigative official said Monday.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, 7:28 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Prosecutor calls for Uganda rebel's arrest: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court called Monday for renewed efforts to arrest a notorious Ugandan rebel leader following reports of a new wave of attacks.
LONDON, 7:28 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
London mayor orders police racism inquiry: The mayor of London ordered an investigation into racism at the Metropolitan Police on Monday, after black police complained about rampant discrimination.
MADRID, Spain, 7:27 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Basque regional president to face trial in Spain: The Basque regional government's president will be tried for meeting members of Batasuna, a party banned for its links to the armed separatist group ETA, a Spanish court said Monday.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 7:23 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Monitoring group says African governance improved: Governance has improved in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a governance monitor said Monday.
BEIJING, 7:22 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Beijing revives vanity plates, bans crude choices: Beijing began issuing vanity plates on Monday after a six-year hiatus sparked by rude, crude and politically incorrect messages.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, 7:19 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Earthquake kills at least 72 in Kyrgyzstan: A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, 7:18 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Lawmaker's home bombed in Pakistan: A suicide bomber attacked a lawmaker's house in eastern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50, officials and a witness said.
LONDON, 7:12 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
UK's Brown will press ahead on terror laws: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office says he's determined to win approval for tougher anti-terrorism laws.
BERLIN, 6:50 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Germany to allow domestic military deployment: Germany's governing coalition partners want to change the constitution to allow for military deployment within the country if needed to combat terrorism, officials said Monday.
PARIS, 6:37 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Huge gunrunning and graft trial opens in Paris: The son of a late French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks faced judges Monday in a long-awaited trial in Paris.
FRANKFURT, Germany, 6:36 a.m. Oct. 6 (AP)
Germany pledges to secure deposits: The German government on Monday defended its pledge to guarantee personal savings amid ongoing market turbulence as “an important step at the right moment.”
