SAUDI ARABIA: Over 300 killed in stampede among pilgrims
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP): THOUSANDS OF Muslim pilgrims rushing to complete a symbolic stoning ritual during the hajj tripped over baggage yesterday, causing a crush in which at least 345 people were killed and hundreds injured...
GERMANY: EU wants Security Council to tackle Iran impasse
BERLIN (Reuters): THE EUROPEAN Union's three biggest powers said yesterday that talks with Iran had reached a dead end and agreed it should be hauled before the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear programme.
TURKEY: Pope's would-be assasin freed
ISTANBUL (Reuters): MEHMET ALI AGCA, the man who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from a Turkish jail yesterday after serving more than a quarter of a century behind bars.
UNITED STATES: Alito on course for Senate confirmation
WASHINGTON (AP): SUPREME COURT nominee Samuel Alito seemed headed yesterday toward Senate confirmation, defending his judicial record to skeptical Democrats and praising the justice he would replace - Sandra Day O'Connor.
T&T: Government denies presence of bird flu
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): THE MINISTRY of Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago has ordered the slaughtering of more than 5,000 chickens, while denying the presence of deadly bird flu on the island.
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