Iraq
U.S. attempts to head off food shortages in capital
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - With potential food shortages just weeks away, the U.S. military opened a warehouse to U.N. aid shipments Sunday, stockpiling flour for Baghdad's people as workers toiled to restore battered basic services like power and water. An opposition figure who has proclaimed himself mayor said he had formed a municipal government. He promised to put on trial anyone whose "hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people" under a new constitution based on Islamic law.
National
Peterson arrested with $10 K near Mexico border
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - Scott Peterson was carrying $10,000 when detectives, fearing he might try to flee the country, pulled him over about 30 miles from the Mexico border and arrested him. Hours later, authorities would announce that DNA tests showed two bodies found on the shore near San Francisco were his pregnant wife, Laci, missing since Dec. 23, and their unborn son.
International
Bush changes gears, focuses on Syrian help
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CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush applauded signs Sunday that Syria is beginning to heed American demands for cooperation against Saddam Hussein's defunct regime. Lowering U.S. rhetoric that had led to speculation that Syria could become Bush's next military target, the president focused on diplomacy as a way to contain Syria.
Saddam's son-in-law surrenders in Baghdad
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Saddam Hussein's son-in-law has left the Syrian capital and surrendered to the Iraqi National Congress in Baghdad, a spokesman in London said Sunday. Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti is married to Saddam's youngest daughter, Hala, and was deputy head of the Tribal Affairs Office in Saddam's ousted regime.
North and South Korea to organize cabinet talks
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea on Monday accepted a North Korean proposal to hold Cabinet-level talks in Pyongyang at the end of the month, ahead of multilaterial talks in China to discuss the North's suspected nuclear weapons programs. South Korea's Unification Minister Jeong Se-hyun accepted the North Korean offer in a telephone message, his office said.
