Man shoots himself after robbing meat market
A man fatally shot himself when police cornered him after a robbery at a southeast Albuquerque meat market. Two men armed with guns robbed the store Sunday afternoon and fled in a car for about half a block as officers pursued them. The men got out of the car and fled, with police sprinting after them, said Officer Trish Ahrensfield, a police spokeswoman. One of the men fired his gun in the residential neighborhood during the chase, she said. Police caught one of the men, and then continued after the other. "As officers tried to arrest the second man, he turned the gun on himself and fired," Ahrensfield said. He died later at the University of New Mexico Hospital.
Martin Luther King III speaks out against war
ATLANTA (AP) - Americans observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with some activists charging that the war in Iraq and other Bush administration policies run counter to what the civil rights leader stood for. "We have to be concerned not just about us. We have to be concerned about all our brothers and sisters throughout our nation and world," King's son Martin Luther King III said in a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his father preached until he was assassinated in 1968.
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U.N. examines election possibilities in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi officials asked the United Nations on Monday to send a team to study the possibility of holding elections in Iraq, a key issue in Washington's dispute with a leading Shiite cleric over plans for creating a transitional government by July 1. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he wanted more details on the mission, but he acknowledged the issue was urgent and said he hoped to make a speedy decision.
Israel may review West Bank separation wall
JERUSALEM (AP) - Addressing two of Israel's thorniest issues, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told lawmakers Monday that peace with Syria would require a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights and ordered a review of the contentious West Bank separation barrier. Sharon's comments on the Golan, made to parliament's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, were an unprecedented admission by the career hard-liner. In the past, right-wing Israeli governments insisted a peace deal could be reached without a withdrawal from the strategic plateau captured in 1967.
