AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a government building in southwestern Afghanistan Saturday, killing a senior state prosecutor and two other people, a provincial governor said.
Reuters - Five people were killed and eight injured
when a rockslide hit a shanty town in Cairo on Saturday, with
the death toll expected to rise, security sources said. -- read full article
AP - Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and "washed away" progress toward dealing with ongoing food shortages, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday.
AP - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report were true.
Reuters - Iran dismissed on Saturday a warning by
France's president that the Islamic Republic was taking a
dangerous gamble over its nuclear program because one day its
arch-foe Israel could strike. -- read full article
AP - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm Saturday, prompting an exodus of tourists and locals from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.
AP - Receding waters in the starving Haitian city of Gonaives revealed the bodies of more victims in floods from Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of people.
AP - Lawmakers were casting their votes Saturday in Pakistan's presidential election, a race where the favorite by far is the scandal-tainted pro-U.S. widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
AFP - Lawyer, academic, women's activist and grandmother Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's governor general Friday, the first woman to act as the British queen's representative Down Under.
AFP - Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is threatening legal proceedings against Norwegian telecom operator Telenor to force it to transform their joint Bangladeshi subsidiary into a "social business" aimed at helping the poor.
Reuters - Canada has imposed targeted sanctions
against Zimbabwe to protest against "intimidation and
state-sponsored violence" against opposition supporters,
Foreign Minister David Emerson said on Friday. -- read full article
AP - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report is true.
AFP - Spanish police said Friday they had detained a top Colombian drug trafficker, Edgar Guillermo Vallejo Guarin, who was wanted in the United States and several other countries.
