2008 Woodie Awards
World
Conflict threatens key nuclear pact
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TBILISI, Georgia - Western leaders warned Russia yesterday to "change course," hoping to keep a conflict that already threatens a key nuclear pact and could even raise U.S. chicken prices from blossoming into a new Cold War. Moscow said it was NATO expansion and Western support for Georgia that was causing the new East-West divisions, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lashed out at the United States for using military ships to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia.
Sea ice level lower in Arctic
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WASHINGTON - More ominous signs yesterday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years. The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that sea ice in the Arctic now covers about 2.
Violence low in Anbar
Improved conditions in Anbar leave security in the hands of Sunni
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WASHINGTON - Conditions in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where a brutal insurgency once ruled, have improved so dramatically that the United States is handing over responsibility for security in the Sunni stronghold to Iraq within days. Troops freed up in Iraq could shift to Afghanistan.
Taliban responsible for Pakistani wave of violence
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said yesterday as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal belt along the Afghan border. As many as 49 insurgents were reported killed.
