Eyes on Hamas as Palestinians vote
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians voted on Wednesday in their first parliamentary election in a decade, a ballot that could bring Hamas into the government and further dim prospects for peacemaking with Israel.
Iran defiant as world weighs action in atomic row
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran again threatened on Wednesday to
start full-scale uranium enrichment if reported to the U.N.
Security Council, while signaling interest in a Russian
proposal aimed at calming its nuclear row with the West.
Microsoft to license Windows source code
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft's top lawyer said
on Wednesday that the company would take new compliance steps
to meet requirements set by the European Commission.
Senate set to debate high court nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate begins debate on
Wednesday on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, a
55-year-old conservative likely to soon join the nation's
highest court.
Iran accuses UK of cooperating with Ahvaz bombers
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday accused Britain of
cooperating with bombers who killed eight people in the
southern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Tuesday, but Britain denied
any involvement.
Five Iraqi women prisoners to be freed: ministry
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five Iraqi women prisoners whose
release has become linked to the case of kidnapped American
journalist Jill Carroll will be freed from U.S. custody on
Thursday, a Justice Ministry official said on Wednesday.
Maryland boy, 8, charged in shooting of girl, 7
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maryland prosecutors have filed
charges against an 8-year-old boy who shot and wounded a
7-year-old girl after threatening to rob her at a suburban
day-care center, The Washington Post said on Wednesday.
China turns screws on media as Google self-censors
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's propaganda mandarins closed an
outspoken supplement of a respected newspaper, as Web search
leader Google announced restrictions on a new service for China
to avoid confrontation with Beijing.
S.Korea's Roh wants Korean peace treaty talks
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea wants to begin discussions
for a permanent peace treaty to replace an armistice with North
Korea, President Roh Moo-hyun said on Wednesday.
UN Security Council leaders to meet on Iran
VIENNA (Reuters) - Foreign ministers of the five permanent
U.N. Security Council members and Germany will meet on Monday
to bridge differences over Iran's nuclear work before a crisis
meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, diplomats said.
Pakistan freezes accounts of suspected Taliban firms
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have
frozen bank accounts of two Afghan trading firms suspected of
funneling funds to leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas,
security officials said on Wednesday.
Japan unlikely to resume US beef imports soon
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan looks unlikely to soon lift a ban
on U.S. beef reimposed after just one month following the
discovery in a shipment from New York of animal parts that
experts consider to be most at risk of spreading mad cow
disease.
Gonzales defends domestic spying
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
defended President George W. Bush's domestic eavesdropping
program as lawful on Tuesday, in the latest attempt by the
administration to counter criticism of the surveillance adopted
after the September 11 attacks.
Actor Chris Penn Found Dead at Residence
LOS ANGELES - Actor Chris Penn, brother of Sean Penn, was found dead Tuesday at his condominium near the beach in Santa Monica, police said.
Disney to buy Pixar for $7.4 billion
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co on
Tuesday said it would buy Pixar Animation Studios in a
$7.4 billion deal that gives Pixar animators creative control
over the world's most famous cartoon studio and make Pixar CEO
Steve Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder.
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TAMPA - Mayor Pam Iorio refused to surrender the city to the pirates of Ye Mystic Krewe Tuesday. They promised to take the city by force on Saturday at the 102nd annual Gasparilla pirate invasion.
Teen beats up his grandmother - because she won't buy him beer
BRADENTON HERALD / WTSP
BRADENTON - Investigators say Kurt Cass, 16, went into his 60-year-old grandmother's bedroom Thursday and asked her for $100.00 for beer. When she refused, he allegedly placed a razor blade on her throat and demanded she take him to the bank to get the money, deputies said.
Infant drowns in Plant City
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A Plant City family's 9-month-old baby girl drowned in the family swimming pool Tuesday morning.
After hole swallows second tenant, county inspects apartments
WFTS
PALM HARBOR - County inspectors spent two hours going building to building at the Landings at Boot Ranch apartment complex Tuesday.
Officials reach deal on desal plant
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
The battle over who pays for Tampa Bay's $140-million desalination plant appears to be over.
Devil Rays catcher pitches in to help family of injured boy
WFTS
PINELLAS PARK - A 3-year-old boy, nearly killed by a car on Christmas night, is finally home from the hospital.
WTOG to become new CW affiliate after network merger
TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL
Programming on WTOG-44 and WTTA-38 will be noticeably different next September after CBS Corp. and Time Warner announced that their respective networks, UPN and The WB, will cease operations and merge into a single new network.
Al-Arian's two attorneys tell judge they want off the case
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
TAMPA - Defense attorneys for Sami Al-Arian asked a federal judge Tuesday to let them off the case.
Looking for the fire starter
BAY NEWS 9
TAMPA - Two fires erupting one week apart at an apartment complex on Mascotte Street has convinced Tampa Fire Rescue that both fires have some kind of connection.
Nelson to vote against Alito
LOCAL 6
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Tuesday he plans to vote against Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
DNA Exonerates Fla. Man After 24 Years
YAHOO! NEWS/AP
TAMPA, Fla. - Alan Crotzer stepped into the warm sunlight outside the courthouse Monday and raised his arms to the sky, celebrating his freedom after more than 24 years behind bars for crimes he didn't commit.
Animal abuse tip leads to something much more serious
WFTS
GIBSONTON - What started out as an animal abuse call has turned into a much larger investigation. Over the weekend, Animal Control officers were called to a home on Bacall Lane in Gibsonton. There, they say, they found much more than they expected.
Lunz extradited back to Pinellas
BAY NEWS 9
Authorities extradited 38-year old Christopher Lunz from the Macon County Jail in Franklin, N.C., to the Pinellas County Jail on Sunday.
'It's no longer about Carlie'
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
TAMPA - Judy Cornett and Susan Schorpen bonded over shared tragedy. For Cornett, it was the 1992 abduction and rape of her 11-year-old son. For Schorpen, it was the abduction and murder of her 11-year-old daughter, Carlie Brucia.
Soldier from Inverness killed in roadside bomb attack
WFTS
INVERNESS - A soldier from Florida was one of four killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq, military officials said.
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