Reuters - French unions staged nationwide protests
on Thursday against plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy to make
people work longer to qualify for a full pension.
AP - President Lee Myung-bak apologized Thursday to South Koreans over a beef import accord with the United States that has sparked fears of mad cow disease and sent his popularity plummeting in his first months in office.
AP - A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives as he tried to ram a crucial crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel early Thursday, a spokesman for the militant Islamic Jihad said. No one else was wounded.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Myanmar's disaster zone Thursday as he pressed the country's leaders to open the doors to critical international aid for some 2.5 million cyclone survivors.
AP - China said the death toll from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 51,000, as it appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors.
AFP - Claims that a Bollywood actress had sex with troops while touring an Australian military base in Afghanistan were under investigation, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Thursday.
AFP - Pakistani Taliban militants said Thursday the success of a peace deal with the government in a northwestern area depends on the complete enforcement of Islamic law in the region.
AFP - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has claimed that government troops have killed or captured 95 percent of rebels in the separatist Ogaden region.
AP - Doctors have ordered Costa Rican President Oscar Arias not to talk for a month due to a cyst on his vocal cords, his office said Wednesday. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 05:29:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - French unions staged nationwide protests
on Thursday against plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy to make
people work longer to qualify for a full pension.
AP - Reports of an increase in terrorist violence around the world have been distorted by the high number of civilian casualties in Iraq, and omitting those deaths reveals a decline in terrorism, a research group argued in a new report Wednesday.
AP - A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives as he tried to ram a crucial crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel early Thursday, a spokesman for the militant Islamic Jihad said. No one else was wounded.
