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Mexico: Ex-drug czar allegedly took cartel money
(AP)
AP - Mexico accused its former drug czar Friday of taking $450,000 from a cartel he was supposed to destroy, going public with a scandal that deals a serious blow to the country's U.S.-backed drug war.
Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
(AP)
AP - Chanting "no to America," supporters of a radical Shiite cleric burned an effigy of President George W. Bush Friday in a protest demanding parliament scuttle a U.S.-Iraqi security pact and American troops begin withdrawing from Iraq immediately.
French Socialist leader vote too close to call
(AP)
AP - A vote tally between two women vying to head the Socialist Party and lead the opposition against France's conservative president was too close to call, a senior party official said early Saturday.
Congo refugees plagued by shootings, rape, looting
(AP)
AP - Looting soldiers tried to rape one woman and fatally shot another at a refugee camp, witnesses said Friday, as the United Nations prepared to send more peacekeepers to help protect traumatized civilians in eastern Congo.
AP Interview: Libya wants to invest in US
(AP)
AP - Libya wants to open a new chapter in relations with the United States by tapping into a major government fund to invest in U.S. companies and sending thousands of students to study in America, the son of Libya's leader said Friday.
IMF ready to help Latvia in economic crisis: IMF chief
(AFP)
AFP - The International Monetary Fund is "ready to rapidly assist" Latvia deal with its economic crisis, in close cooperation with the European Union, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Friday in a statement.
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,202
(AP)
AP - As of Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, at least 4,202 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Nicaragua's Ortega refuses to cancel elections
(AP)
AP - President Daniel Ortega moved to quash a legislative proposal by opposition politicians Friday to cancel the results of widely disputed elections, as thousands of Sandinista supporters took to the streets to celebrate the party's victory.
Correction: Africa climate change story
(AP)
AP - In a Nov. 20 story about African negotiations on global warming, The Associated Press erroneously reported that China refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol. China has signed and ratified the pact, but like other developing nations was not asked to reduce its emissions under the 1997 protocol.
China hotel fire kills eight, injures 16
(Reuters)
Reuters - A fire at a hotel in northern China has killed eight people and injured 16 others, state media said on Saturday.
Aussie mayor wins sexist 'award' for inviting ugly women to town
(AFP)
AFP - An Australian mayor who invited ugly women to move to his outback mining town, saying even they would find a man there, has won the top "award" for the most sexist public comment of the year.
