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05-17-2006
Iran Rejects Potential European Incentives
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, center top, talks with his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing, bottom, during a meeting in Beijing, China, Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Lavrov is meeting with top Chinese leaders as the two countries coordinate their diplomacy on Iran's nuclear standoff. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Frederic J. Brown, Pool)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) _ Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday rejected a possible European offer for incentives, including a light-water nuclear reactor, in return for allaying fears about his country's nuclear program by giving up uranium enrichment. "Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" Ahmadinejad told thousands of people in a speech in central Iran.
Judge Allows Defense to Call Saddam
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and co-defendant, Abdullah Kazim al-Ruwayyid, top, attend their trial at a court in the heavily fortified Green Zone, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 17, 2006. Defense lawyers put a quick series of witnesses on the stand in Saddam Hussein's trial Wednesday, and the former Iraqi leader attended the session after being kept out of the courtroom a day earlier. Saddam and the other defendants have been charged with crimes against humanity for the crackdown, in which hundreds of Dujail residents were imprisoned, some undergoing torture, and 148 were killed. The defendants face possible execution by hanging if convicted. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro, Pool)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ Saddam Hussein and his former intelligence chief can testify on behalf of one of their co-defendants in their trial on charges of crimes against humanity, the chief judge ruled Wednesday. It was not clear when Saddam and Barzan Ibrahim would take the stand.
Palestinians Send Militant Force Into Streets
Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Said Siyam, from the Islamic group Hamas, talks during a news conference at his office in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 17, 2006. Siyam said a new militants' army would start operating Wednesday, disregarding Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' order that no such force be formed, and raising the stakes in their increasingly bellicose power struggle between Abbas and the Hamas-led government. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) _ The Palestinians' defiant Hamas-led government sent a new militant force into the streets of Gaza on Wednesday, disregarding President Mahmoud Abbas' order banning the creation of the security body and raising the stakes in their deepening power struggle. Hamas appeared to have been propelled into action by mysterious drive-by shootings that killed two of its militants in the Gaza Strip hours earlier. These and other recent cases of deadly infighting have threatened to plunge the Palestinian territories into bloody chaos.
Indonesia's Mount Merapi Erupts Violently
Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts in Cangkringan Wednesday, May 17, 2006 as seen from Yogyakarta, the capital of Central Java province, Indonesia. The highest-status alert remained Wednesday for the 3,000-meter (9,800-foot) mountain at the heart of Java island, and scientists cautioned that a lull in activity did not mean the danger was over. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) _ Mount Merapi shot a large cloud of searing hot ash and gas into the sky Wednesday, ending two days of relative calm and underscoring the dangers still facing thousands of people living on the volcano's slopes. Witnesses said the eruption appeared to be smaller than the mountain's most violent sputterings Monday, when ash and gas clouds surged around 2 1/2 miles from the peak and triggered panic.
Consumer Prices Jump by 0.6 Pct. in April
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Consumer prices jumped by 0.6 percent in April, the most in three months, pushed higher by rising costs for a wide range of goods and services including gasoline, clothing, rent and medical care. The big increase in the government's most closely watched inflation barometer, the Consumer Price Index, came after a stong 0.4 percent advance in March, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
Google Inc. Tweaks Its Video Service
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) _ Internet search leader Google Inc. is making it easier to post and share online videos on its site, hoping to widen the appeal of a service that so far has been eclipsed by upstart YouTube.com. Until the system was changed late Tuesday, uploading a video to Google's site required a special piece of software to be installed on a computer. The Mountain View-based company has retooled its service so that step is no longer required.
Paul McCartney and Wife Separate
Paul McCartney speaks to the press as his wife, Heather Mills, looks on at the United Nations Association of the USA awards dinner in New York, in this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002 file photo. According to London hnewspaper reports Wednesday May 17, 2006, the couple are planning to separate, although representatives of the couple declined to comment, but said an official statement was expected later Wednesday. The couple have been married for some four years (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
LONDON (AP) _ Paul McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, said Wednesday they are separating after nearly four years of marriage, citing pressures from the media and insisting their split is amicable. "Having tried exceptionally hard to make our relationship work given the daily pressures surrounding us, it is with sadness that we have decided to go our separate ways," a statement from the couple said. "Our parting is amicable and both of us still care about each other very much."
'Da Vinci Code' Misses the Mark for Critics
American actor Tom Hanks, star of the new movie "The Da Vinci Code," poses for photographers as he arrives with fellow cast members at the train station in Cannes, southern France, on Tuesday, May 16, 2006. "The Da Vinci Code" will open the 59th International film festival on Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
CANNES, France (AP) _ "The Da Vinci Code" drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world's toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival. The year's most anticipated movie, "The Da Vinci Code" was a generally faithful adaptation of Dan Brown's monster best seller, spinning a murder thriller that stems from a cover-up of secrets about Christianity's roots.
Elephant Not Interested in Using Treadmill
Rob Smith tries to coax Maggie, the Alaska Zoo's elephant, onto her custom treadmill in a pen at the zoo in Anchorage, Alaska, Tuesday, May 16, 2006. For two months the staff at the Alaska Zoo have been trying to coax the Maggie onto her exercise equipment will no success. Zoo director Pat Lampi says it may take months and months to get the elephant actually using her treadmill. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ So far, it's the trainers at the Alaska Zoo who are breaking a sweat trying to coax Maggie the elephant onto the world's first treadmill for a pachyderm. Despite months of training using treats to entice the elephant to work out, the sometimes cantankerous African elephant is not much interested in using her treadmill to go for a brisk morning walk, or for that matter an afternoon or evening walk.
Yankees Come From 9 Down to Win 14-13
New York Yankees batting coach Don Mattingly, back to camera, celebrates with Jorge Posada, center, and other Yankees after Posdada hit a game-winning, walk-off two-run home run off Texas Rangers closer Akinori Otsuka to help the Yankees defeat the Rangers 14-13, Tuesday, May 16, 2006, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
NEW YORK (AP) _ The New York Yankees came back from a 9-0 deficit to beat the Texas Rangers 14-13 Tuesday on a two-run walk-off home run by Jorge Posada. Posada's homer, with two outs in the ninth, came after he withstodd a violent collision at the plate. Derek Jeter went 4-for-5 with a homer, four RBIs and three runs. He also threw out a runner at the plate and stole third base.
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