AP - About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley.
AP - Myanmar's military junta extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention by one year Tuesday, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laureate who has been detained for more than 12 of the past 18 years.
Reuters - A man hanged in 1922 for the murder
and rape of a young girl in the southern Australian city of
Melbourne was posthumously pardoned for the crime on Tuesday
after new tests found crucial evidence against him was flawed. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 08:17:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - North Korea has greatly reduced malaria
infections at home but mosquitoes carrying the disease are
crossing the heavily armed border and infecting hundreds each
year in the South, a provincial governor said on Tuesday. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 08:49:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - A Darfur rebel group threatened on
Monday to launch new attacks on Khartoum and central Sudan,
amid fears that the region's peace process was unraveling.
AP - Former army chief Luciano Benjamin Menendez faces charges of kidnapping, torturing and killing left-wing militants during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship. -- read full article
Tue, 27 May 2008 07:08:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - An American businessman who police suspect gave illegal funds to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is in a Jerusalem court to testify about his part in the case.
AFP - The price of shares in Swiss banking giant UBS plunged by nearly eight percent on Tuesday as the company launched a second capital increase to raise more than 15 billion Swiss francs (nine billion euros).
AP - Lebanon's new president got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah's leader warned against any efforts to disarm his Iranian-backed guerrilla group.
AP - Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned after leaving classified documents at a private residence, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling it "a serious error."
AP - Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.
AP - Soldiers used large, earth-moving equipment Tuesday to dig a channel and try to prevent a swelling lake formed by China's huge earthquake earlier this month from bursting.
AFP - Soldiers raced Monday to blast clear a river dammed by landslides after China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago, amid fears that more than one million people could be at risk from flooding.
AFP - Southern Africa's main regional bloc will send extra election monitors for Zimbabwe's key presidential run-off which may seal Robert Mugabe's political future, Angola's foreign minister said Monday.
