IVORY COAST: UN peacekeepers battle attackers
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP): UNITED NATIONS peacekeepers fought off armed attackers besieging a military compound in Ivory Coast yesterday, then evacuated all staff from the area as the situation in the civil war-divided nation worsened.
CHINA: Wealthy nations back bird flu fund
BEIJING (Reuters): WEALTHY NATIONS promised almost US$2 billion yesterday to combat the spread of bird flu, with the urgency of the threat underlined by new reports of human deaths in China and Turkey and panic spreading to Iraq.
UNITED KINGDOM: Cops foil plot to kidnap Blair's son - report
LONDON (Reuters): BRITISH POLICE have foiled a plot to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair's five-year-old son Leo, the Sun newspaper reported yesterday.
EUROPE: Iran's president scorns draft nuclear resolution
BERLIN (Reuters): EUROPEAN POWERS began circulating a draft resolution yesterday that asks the U.N. nuclear watchdog to report Iran to the Security Council, drawing a scornful response from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
IRAQ: Ambush kills 10, Africans missing
BAGHDAD (Reuters): INSURGENTS MOUNTED a major ambush in Baghdad yesterday, killing up to 10 people and kidnapping one and possibly two African engineers in a second coordinated attack in the capital in as many days.
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