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Katrina: Relief Cash Not Needed Yet

Katrina: Relief Cash Not Needed Yet

Aug 31, 2005 / 7:41 am

Phil Bond, the Kelowna Service Area Manager for the Red Cross Says that the U.S. Red Cross is not currently seeking donations from other countries at the moment...

Governor Declares Day Of Prayer

Aug 31, 2005 / 4:59 am

Crews continued to search for bedraggled survivors clinging to their rooftops and engineers scrambled to plug broken levees, as floodwater continued to rise in...

Katrina Canada Bound

Katrina Canada Bound

Aug 30, 2005 / 4:24 pm

The centre of what was Hurricane Katrina tracked toward Canada Tuesday with forecasters expecting the killer storm to bring gusting winds and heavy rains to...

Cleaning Up After Katrina

Aug 30, 2005 / 6:47 am

Rescuers worked through the night to reach hundreds of people stranded after Hurricane Katrina ripped across the Gulf Coast killing dozens of people, destroying...

Katrina Downgraded

Katrina Downgraded

Aug 29, 2005 / 2:23 pm

Hurricane Katrina -- downgraded to a Category 1 storm -- slammed into New Orleans, causing power outages and massive flooding that covered homes to the...

Katrina Moving Towards New Orleans

Katrina Moving Towards New Orleans

Aug 29, 2005 / 6:15 am

Hurricane Katrina -- now a strong Category 4 storm -- has made landfall in Louisiana and is moving toward New Orleans with 240 km/hour winds. The northern part...

Hurricane Katrina Getting Stronger

Hurricane Katrina Getting Stronger

Aug 27, 2005 / 7:28 am

Blamed for at least seven deaths in Florida, powerful Hurricane Katrina is becoming stronger as it churns in the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasts say it's poised to...

Massive Blaze In Paris

Aug 26, 2005 / 2:58 pm

Investigators are searching for the cause of a massive blaze that swept through a seven-story Paris apartment building housing many west African immigrants,...

Spies Hacking Gov""t Computers

Aug 25, 2005 / 4:30 pm

The FBI and the Pentagon are investigating whether Chinese spies have been hacking into U.S. government computer systems, U.S. officials said Thursday....

Robertson Apologizes For Controversy

Aug 24, 2005 / 7:00 pm

After two days of criticism, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized for his controversial suggestion that the United States should assassinate...

Robertson""s Comments Criminal

Aug 23, 2005 / 3:15 pm

Bush administration officials Tuesday disavowed Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez....

Iraqi Constitution Draft

Aug 22, 2005 / 2:53 pm

An Iraqi constitution draft was submitted to the National Assembly Monday minutes before a midnight deadline, but three more days are needed to resolve...

Four More Years In Iraq

Aug 21, 2005 / 7:57 am

The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq — well over 100,000 — for four more years, the Army's top general...

Merck Loses Lawsuit

Merck Loses Lawsuit

Aug 20, 2005 / 8:16 am

Pharmaceutical giant Merck and Co. has announced it will be appealing the $253.4-million US damage award given to the widow of a man who took the painkiller...

Rockets Fired At U.S. Navy

Aug 19, 2005 / 9:15 am

At least three rockets were fired from Jordan Friday. One narrowly missed a U.S. navy ship docked in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba, but killed a Jordanian...

BTK Killer Handed Down Sentences

Aug 18, 2005 / 4:21 pm

Confessed BTK serial killer Dennis Rader was handed 10 consecutive life sentences on Thursday by a Kansas judge. Tearful relatives of Rader's victims called him...

Israeli Troops Raid Synagogues

Aug 18, 2005 / 9:35 am

Thousands of Israeli troops have raided two synagogues in hardline Jewish settlements, marking the second day of the forcible evacuations of Gaza settlers. A...

Gaza Strip Calls For Forcible Removal

Aug 17, 2005 / 8:55 am

Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of protesters in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday. Unarmed soldiers broke through burning barricades and...

Worm Hits Hard

Aug 16, 2005 / 4:18 pm

A computer worm shut down computer systems running the Windows 2000 operating system across the United States on Tuesday, hitting computers at CNN, ABC and The...

Families Identify Prisoners Bodies

Aug 16, 2005 / 1:03 pm

Anxious family members lined up outside a morgue Tuesday to identify the bodies of 31 young male prisoners killed during near-simultaneous gang riots in seven...

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