AP - Turkey said Wednesday that it had taken economic measures designed to weaken Kurdish rebels and groups that support it, a step that could affect the economy in the self-governing Kurdish administration in northern Iraq.
AFP - Frank Lampard’s hat-trick helped League Cup holders Chelsea snatch a dramatic 4-3 win over Leicester on Wednesday.
AP - Spain’s National Court convicted the three main suspects in the Madrid commuter train bombings of mass murder Wednesday and sentenced them to tens of thousands of years in prison for Europe’s worst Islamic terror attack.
AFP - Africa will receive investment worth 55 billion dollars (38 billion euros) to boost its goal of securing universal Internet access by 2012, the International Telecommunication Union said Wednesday.
AP - Tropical Storm Noel triggered mudslides and floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, pushing the death toll to 66 on Wednesday and forcing some parents to choose which of their children to save from the surging waters.
AP - The U.S. acknowledged Wednesday it has undertaken military moves against Kurdish rebels in Iraq after asserting for weeks that their strikes in Turkey were a diplomatic matter.
AP - The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps warned the U.S. Wednesday against attacking the Islamic Republic, saying if it did, Washington would be “stuck in a quagmire” worse than Iraq or Afghanistan.
AP - Violent deaths of U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians appear to have fallen sharply in Iraq in October, according to the latest Associated Press tally.
AP - More than 100 Buddhist monks marched peacefully Wednesday in a northern Myanmar town noted for its defiance of the country’s military rulers, the first large protest since the junta violently crushed a wave anti-government demonstrations.
AP - Paraguay’s Supreme Court has annulled the mutiny conviction of former army Gen. Lino Cesar Oviedo, clearing the way for him to compete in April’s presidential election.
