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Karzai sought help from Saudis on Taliban talks
KABUL, Afghanistan – As the Afghan war intensifies and U.S. commanders call for increased troop levels, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that he had repeatedly sought the intervention of the Saudi royal family to bring the resurgent Taliban to peace negotiations.
 2008 VOTE: VICE PRESIDENT
Old ground but new terms for Biden
With a single-word response, Sen. Joe Biden surprised and amused his listeners in the first Democratic primary debate, in April 2007. He was asked if he could be disciplined on the world stage and restrain his legendary loquaciousness.
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'Think of us like a coast guard,' pirates say
NAIROBI, Kenya – The Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition said yesterday that they had no idea the ship was carrying arms when they seized it on the high seas.
- Bill cracking down on insurers that cancel coverage is vetoed
LOS ANGELES – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill yesterday that would have cracked down on health insurance companies that cancel policies of people who make expensive claims.
- Lawyers meet with train victims
SIMI VALLEY – Lawyers have begun campaigns to represent victims of the Sept. 12 Metrolink commuter train wreck that killed 25 people and injured more than 130 others in suburban Los Angeles.
- Medicare will no longer foot bill for treatments to fix doctor errors
ST. PAUL, Minn. – If an auto mechanic accidentally breaks your windshield while trying to repair the engine, he would never get away with billing you for fixing his mistake. Today, Medicare will start applying that logic to American medicine on a broad scale when it stops paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their care.
- REGION UPDATE
Girl bit by pit bull dies of her injuries
LOS ANGELES – A 5-year-old girl attacked by a pit bull in a family friend's backyard in Simi Valley has died, Los Angeles County authorities said.
- EPA sets radiation-exposure rules for proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada
WASHINGTON – No one knows what the Earth will be like in a million years. But a proposed nuclear waste dump in Nevada must be designed to ensure that people living near it then are exposed to no more than 100 millirems of radiation annually – equivalent to about a half-dozen X-rays.
- N.Y. mayor wants to run again, seeks to alter term-limits law
NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to try to reverse the term-limits law he had long supported so he can seek a third term next year and help the city emerge from financial turmoil, a person close to the mayor said yesterday.
- NATION UPDATE
Biggest TVA rate hike since '74 takes effect
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Valley Authority's largest electric rate increase in more than three decades takes effect today as thousands of consumers already are struggling to pay their power bills and avoid service cutoffs.
- Close friend testifies that he gave expensive gifts to Alaska senator
WASHINGTON – A longtime friend of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens crossed the powerful lawmaker yesterday and testified that he gave the Republican senator thousands of dollars in gifts.
- Iranian official says his doctorate was forged
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's interior minister admitted yesterday that a doctorate he said he had earned from Oxford was a fake, and he said he was pressing charges against an intermediary who had forged it without his knowledge.
- WORLD UPDATE
Two political parties are fined in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – Mexico issued multimillion-dollar fines for misconduct yesterday to both sides in the bitterly disputed 2006 presidential elections.
- Kidnapped tour group members dispute dramatic-rescue reports
CAIRO, Egypt – The end of a 10-day ordeal for the tour group came far out in the desolate Sahara, when kidnappers lined up some of the captives and cocked their weapons. “At that moment, we thought we were dead,” one Egyptian guide said.
- Bomb scare blamed for stampede in India
JODHPUR, India – False rumors of a bomb was the cause of the deadly stampede of thousands of pilgrims at a Hindu temple in western India yesterday, witnesses said. At least 168 people died in the crush to escape.
- THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ
Security forces' death toll rises as U.S. casualty figures decline
BAGHDAD – The number of Iraqi security forces killed in September rose by nearly one-third to 159 compared with the same period last year, Associated Press figures showed yesterday. U.S. troop deaths for the same period fell by nearly 40 percent to 25.
- Pakistan taps new boss for intelligence agency
WASHINGTON – The Pakistani government has selected a new chief for its powerful intelligence service, the ISI, replacing a figure the Bush administration has long suspected of having ties to Taliban extremists and other militant groups in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.
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