Moscow Says U.s. Missile Shield Aimed At Russia

LIMA, Peru (AP) — President Alan Garcia fired Peru's justice minister Tuesday amid questions over the pardoning of a former media executive convicted of taking payoffs to provide favorable coverage for a previous government.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian police say two off-duty officers have been shot to death near an open-air market in the capital.

By JIM LITKE They mocked him mercilessly for four solid months and delighted in every sordid detail of his fall from grace.Now it's Tiger Woods' turn."After a long and necessary time away from the game," Woods said in a statement Tuesday, "I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta."Don't bet against him winning the Masters, or for that matter, dozens of times after that.

Aaron Cook's lack of control of his fastball led to his second straight ineffective start in spring training.Cook, who has won 27 games the past two seasons for the Colorado Rockies, allowed six runs and six hits in three innings and the Chicago White Sox got a 6-1 win over the Rockies on Tuesday."Once the season starts, that's when it really counts," Cook said.

HAVANA (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty international appealed to Cuban President Raul Castro to release political prisoners and scrap laws that restrict fundamental freedoms, using the seventh anniversary of a major crackdown on dissent to call for change.