Politics Jan 10 Abbas Declared Winner in Historic Palestinian Election Moderate former premier Mahmoud Abbas was declared the winner Monday in the election to replace the late Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat.
Politics Jan 07 Ex-Senators Tapped to Lead Tax Code Reform Effort President Bush on Friday named two former senators, Republican Connie Mack of Florida and Democrat John Breaux of Louisiana, to lead a panel to come up with ways to simplify the tax code.
Politics Jan 07 Palestinians Wrap Up Campaigning Ahead of Vote Two days before the historic Palestinian presidential election, front-runner Mahmoud Abbas canceled a campaign stop in Jerusalem, saying Israeli security arrangements would have embarrassed him.
World Jan 06 Plan Aims to Coordinate Emergency Response The Department of Homeland Security unveiled a plan Thursday aimed at coordinating federal, state and local government responses to emergencies, including terrorist attacks.
World Jan 06 U.N. Urges Donor Nations to Speed Delivery of Tsunami Aid U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged national governments and relief organizations to speed the flow of pledged donations for the tsunami recovery effort in order to save the lives of an estimated 150,000 people at risk from disease and injury.
Politics Jan 03 Insurgents Strike Party Office, Other Sites Ahead of Election Insurgents in Iraq detonated three car bombs, including one outside Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 16 people Monday as the country prepared for elections at the end of the month.
World Jan 03 Aid Flights Reach Tsunami Victims As Relief Efforts Increase Aid workers used everything from helicopters to elephants to try and deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of people without food and shelter eight days after an earthquake and ensuing tsunamis devastated parts of southern Asia.
Politics Dec 30 Ukrainian Election Dispute Appears Near an End Ukraine's election commission rejected a lengthy appeal from current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich that alleged widespread fraud and vote tampering caused his defeat in the Dec. 26 re-run of Ukraine's presidential runoff.
World Dec 30 Destruction in Indonesia Pushes Tsunami Death Toll Over 114,000 As Indonesian military units pushed deeper into the ravaged region of northern Sumatra, officials said that nearly 80,000 people had died when an earthquake and ensuing tsunamis struck the country Sunday.
World Dec 29 Aid Continues to Flow Into Asia As Death Toll Passes 76,000 The scope of the catastrophic earthquake and ensuing tsunamis continued to expand Wednesday as one relief agency projected the death toll, already over 76,000, could surpass 100,000.