AFP - The prices at Dzidzai Guti's makeshift stall can seem eye-popping, with rotting oranges, a pack of cigarettes and bananas fetching as much as 250 million Zimbabwean dollars.
AP - Colombia's president on Thursday called for a referendum to decide if new presidential elections should be held in the wake of a court decision that is questioning the legitimacy of his 2006 re-election.
AP - Israel has refused for the third day in a row to fully open crossings with the Gaza Strip in retaliation for rocket attacks. The rockets and closure both constitute violations of a cease-fire that began June 19.
AP - South Korea began inspecting U.S. beef Friday as hundreds of labor activists blocked customs storage facilities for a second day following the government's decision to lift its ban on American beef imports.
AP - Groups of people led by apparent ruling-party marshals lined up at polling stations Friday to vote in Zimbabwe's one-candidate presidential runoff, an election condemned by world leaders and expected to deepen the southern African nation's political crisis.
AP - North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, according to a news report, in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs.
AP - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta, who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by rebel soldiers earlier this year, said Thursday he is considering taking a new job as U.N. human rights chief.
Reuters - North Korea handed over a
long-delayed account of its nuclear activities on Thursday,
prompting a still-wary U.S. President George W. Bush to ease
some sanctions on a country he once deemed part of an "axis of
evil."
AP - State authorities have agreed to pay 490,000 pesos (US$48,000) in compensation to 14 indigenous Mexican men coerced into having vasectomies, an official said. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:33:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
