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Thailand Prepares for State of Emergency

NARATHIWAT, Thailand – Thai authorities prepared Monday to impose a state of emergency for insurgency-hit areas of the country’s Muslim south, as violence continued unabated with two slayings and a bombing that wounded seven security personnel. A raid on the southern city of Yala by militants last week that left …

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Rice Plans Trip to Keep Gaza Withdrawal on Track

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) scrambled her schedule Friday to add a trip to the Middle East (search) designed to nurture Israel’s promised withdrawal from Gaza and part of the West Bank despite a spate of terror attacks. With the pullout a month away, State Department spokesman …

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Dead Boys Alive in Trunk for at Least 13 Hours

CAMDEN, N.J. – Three boys who suffocated in a car trunk last month were trapped alive for at least 13 hours, slowly succumbing while police searched their neighborhood, prosecutors said Tuesday. The boys, ages 5, 6 and 11, died between 13 and 33 hours after they climbed into the trunk …

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