AP - Mexican officials said Thursday that at least 18 Cubans have reached Texas more than a week after masked gunmen hijacked an immigration bus in southern Mexico and seized them. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:43:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - More than 10,000 Shiites marched Thursday in this tiny Sunni-ruled Gulf country to protest newspaper articles deemed insulting to their top cleric.
AP - Iraq is close to signing oil service deals with several major Western oil companies in an effort to boost its output capacity, the country's oil ministry said Thursday — the first major Iraqi contracts with big Western companies since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:12:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
AP - Iraqi troops on Thursday arrested the top official in Amarah, a Muqtada al-Sadr loyalist, officials said, drawing swift condemnations from followers of the anti-U.S. cleric and raising tensions as a military operation against Shiite militias got under way.
AP - Zimbabwe's opposition party said Thursday that it was facing escalating violence as it tries to campaign in the last days before a presidential runoff pitting its leader against longtime President Robert Mugabe.
AP - Weapons caches are turning up with increasing frequency in public places in Iraq — from a bakery to a fish farm — as recent security gains embolden more civilians to come forward with tips, U.S. and Iraqi military officials say.
AP - Guns went quiet as a six-month truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants took effect early Thursday, but there was widespread skepticism about its ability to hold.
Reuters - Pro-junta thugs broke up a rally by
supporters of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on
Thursday, detaining three people among a crowd chanting for her
release on her 63rd birthday, a senior opposition member said.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC has launched
an urgent court action to appeal a state-media ban on its
advertisements and media cover of the party ahead of next
week's presidential run-off election, a spokesman said on
Thursday.
AP - President Cristina Fernandez told thousands of supporters Wednesday that a three-month strike against grain export-tax hikes was undemocratic and demanded that farmers lift road blockades that have caused food shortages across Argentina.
AP - As of Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at least 4,101 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
Reuters - A Brussels-based journalists' rights
group has welcomed criminal charges against three men in the
killing of Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but said those
who ordered the murder must be held accountable.
AP - Afghan and NATO forces have cleared Taliban militants from a strategic group of villages they had infiltrated outside southern Afghanistan's largest city, Afghan officials said Thursday.
