AP - City authorities vowed Tuesday to challenge a court order to move some 3,500 immigrants living in a camp near a popular tourist destination after they were forced from their homes in a wave of xenophobic violence.
AP - Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdish rebel targets in villages across the border in northern Iraq, an Iraqi border guard said Tuesday. No casualties were reported. -- read full article
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:49:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AFP - Heir to the throne Prince Charles on Tuesday paid off a family debt incurred more than 350 years ago -- but was spared the accumulated interest that could have run into tens of thousands of pounds.
AP - About 80,000 protesters gathered in the South Korean capital Tuesday in the largest demonstration yet against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports, as the entire Cabinet offered to resign in the uproar over the policy.
AP - Nearly a month after China's devastating earthquake, the Wolong Nature Reserve held a funeral Tuesday for a panda that was crushed in the temblor.
AP - President Bush and European allies on Tuesday threatened tougher sanctions to squeeze Iran's finances and derail its potential pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Bush said the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran would endanger world peace.
AFP - Australian fashion and farming figures Tuesday hit back at animal rights activists' claims that wool production was cruel to sheep, saying bans on wool exports were misguided and hurting farmers.
AFP - Torrents of water finally began gushing out of China's quake lake Tuesday in a controlled drainage operation aimed at heading off a flood disaster for more than a million people.
AFP - Suspected ruling party militants stoned an opposition senator's home and torched his car on Tuesday as election-related violence gathered pace in Zimbabwe ahead of a run-off election, the party said.
AP - Thousands of demonstrators marched on the U.S. Embassy Monday to demand that Washington extradite a former Bolivian defense minister who directed a military crackdown on riots that killed at least 60 people in 2003.
AP - Israel's top leaders will debate Tuesday whether to pursue a truce with Hamas' Gaza rulers or embark on a broad military operation against Palestinian militants who torment southern Israel with rocket and mortar barrages.
AP - North Korea reasserted its opposition to terrorism Tuesday in an apparent attempt to bolster its bid for removal from a U.S. blacklist, as an American diplomat traveled to Pyongyang to help push the country's nuclear disarmament. -- read full article
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:45:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
