AP - World leaders meeting at a U.N. summit Tuesday will try to figure out how to head off skyrocketing food prices before millions more join the multitudes across the globe who already lack enough to eat.
AP - More than 1 million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Myanmar, and it's not clear what the military junta is doing to help them, the United Nations said Tuesday.
AP - Investigators reviewed security video and picked through debris Tuesday to determine whether a suicide attacker blew up a massive car bomb outside the Danish embassy, killing six people.
AP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd accused his predecessor of abusing intelligence information to justify entering the Iraq war, saying Monday that the Australian people were misled.
Reuters - A U.N. agency accused by the
United States of financial mismanagement in North Korea escaped
charges of major wrongdoing in a review made public on Monday,
and its chief said this brought closure to the affair.
Reuters - The United States on Monday called
the arrest of two opposition politicians in Zimbabwe
"troubling" and said it was part of a pattern of government
intimidation before the run-off election. -- read full article
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AP - Colombia's national disaster office says the death toll has reached 23 from a mudslide that buried several dozen homes in a poor district of Medellin.
AP - A young Iranian activist and his lawyer said Monday that he had become the first man sentenced for participating in a campaign to change laws that discriminate against women. -- read full article
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AP - A tax on airline tickets and an auction of pollution rights are just two ideas likely to be studied at a 162-nation conference examining ways of raising the billions of dollars needed every year to fight global warming.
AP - The U.S. has reinstated the Fulbright scholarships of seven Gaza Strip students blocked by Israel from leaving the Hamas-ruled territory, the State Department said Monday.
AP - As students filed into Middle School No. 1 on Monday for the first day of classes since the cyclone hit Myanmar a month ago, all eyes stared skyward at the gaping hole in the roof.
AP - Workers in hazmat suits crisscrossed collapsed communities in trucks Monday, spraying disinfectant as part of a government campaign to prevent disease outbreaks among 5 million left homeless by last month's earthquake.
AP - Syria will allow in U.N. inspectors to probe allegations that the country was building a nuclear reactor at a remote site destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:18:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy on Monday, killing at least six people just weeks after an al-Qaida leader urged attacks against Denmark for newspaper caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
AP - Australia, a staunch U.S. ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, ended combat operations there Sunday.