World
- Toll from China quake estimated at 3,000 to 5,000
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 14:02:01
AP - A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday and state media reported that as many as 5,000 people were killed in a single county while nearly 900 students were trapped under the rubble of their school.
- US airlifts aid to Myanmar, UN urges junta to cooperate
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 11:56:07
AP - The United States delivered its first relief supplies to Myanmar on Monday, as the U.N. urged the reclusive nation to open its doors to foreign experts who can help up to 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation.
- Iraqi lawmakers, Sadrists sign four-day cease-fire
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:04:01
AP - Representatives of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and lawmakers from Iraq’s main Shiite political bloc signed a four-day cease-fire Monday in an effort to end seven weeks of fighting in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum.
- Heavy fighting breaks out in north Lebanon
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:42:25
AP - Heavy fighting broke out Monday between government supporters and opponents in Lebanon’s second-largest city, where the two sides battled with rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and mortars, security officials and paramedics said.
- Serbia begins postelection talks
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:47:54
AP - Serbia’s nationalists brushed aside their pro-Western rivals’ claim of victory in parliamentary elections and held talks Monday to see if they could muster support from other parties to form a government.
- Iraqi officials: Turkey hits Kurdish bases in Iraq
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 07:51:06
AP - Turkish jets struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets close to the border in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday. - Venezuelan president criticizes German chancellor
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 04:19:49
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at Germany’s chancellor on Sunday, suggesting that her party shares the political ideals of Adolf Hitler.
- Battling to take death out of birth in Africa
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:34:03
Reuters - Lying on a sagging mattress and
wincing slightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that she should
have been afraid of giving birth to her first child, now lying
in a crib near her in a hospital in south Sudan.
- Sharif’s party pulls out of Pakistan government
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:53:11
Reuters - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif
pulled his party out of Pakistan’s six-week-old coalition
government on Monday, plunging the volatile Muslim nation back
into political uncertainty.
- Australian military clears soldiers over Afghan civilian deaths
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 06:08:18
AFP - The Australian military on Monday cleared its soldiers over the deaths of two women and a baby during a battle in Afghanistan but said all civilian casualties were “highly regrettable”.
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