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Rice Meets Qaddafi on Historic Visit to Libya

TRIPOLI, Libya – The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Qaddafi, Libya’s mercurial strongman. “The relationship has been moving in a good direction for a number of …

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Russian Navy Ships Head to Venezuela for Maneuvers

MOSCOW – A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American nations amid increasingly strained relations …

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Judge Nixes Claims in Heath Ledger Drug Video Lawsuit

LOS ANGELES – A judge on Wednesday dealt a serious but possibly temporary blow to a lawsuit filed by a celebrity magazine reporter who has accused a paparazzi agency of secretly filming Heath Ledger doing drugs in her hotel room. Superior Court Judge John S. Wiley Jr. tentatively dismissed 11 …

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