AP - Palestinian militants launched at least 50 rockets and mortars from Gaza and Israel responded with airstrikes on Wednesday, just a day before a truce was set to take effect, illustrating how fragile the arrangement between Israel and Hamas would be.
AP - The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite militiaman on Wednesday for a truck bombing that killed 63 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad, saying he was trying to re-ignite sectarian violence for personal gain.
AP - Afghan and Canadian forces moved into villages outside Kandahar on Wednesday to root out Taliban militants, killing at least 36 insurgents, while an explosion elsewhere killed four British soldiers, officials said.
AFP - Afghan forces backed up by Canadian NATO troops pushed into villages near the strategic city of Kandahar in a major "clean-up" operation to drive out entrenched Taliban rebels.
Reuters - South African President Thabo Mbeki will
meet Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe on Wednesday for talks ahead of
next week's presidential election run-off, Mbeki's spokesman
said.
AP - The U.S. war crimes court goes back into session this week as lawyers for defendants look for ways to use a new Supreme Court ruling to derail the prosecution of suspected terrorists. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:33:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Iraq's government vowed Wednesday to defeat "the terrorists" after a car bomb killed at least 51 people on a bustling street in a Shiite area of Baghdad and resolved to defend the security gains of the past year.
AP - Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan's largest city on Wednesday to root out any Taliban who have infiltrated the area, officials said.
AP - Organizers of the Olympic torch relay say the flame will reach Tibet on Saturday in a one-day stop that has been shrouded in secrecy. -- read full article
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:16:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Hundreds of security personnel lined the streets to head off any disruption as the Olympic torch relay resumed Wednesday in western China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang.
AP - Al-Qaida-linked militants freed a popular TV news anchor, her cameraman and a university professor late Tuesday, more than a week after snatching them in the volatile southern Philippines, police said.
AFP - Two Algerian converts to Christianity were due to appear before an Algerian criminal court on Wednesday accused of proselytizing, said head of the country's Protestant church Mustapha Krim.
