NORTH KOREA: Kim irks the world
SEOUL (Reuters): World powers condemned North Korea yesterday after it said it conducted an underground nuclear test and the U.N. Security Council prepared a stern response that could further impoverish and isolate the communist state.
IRAQ: Woman tells court Saddam forces buried her family alive
BAGHDAD (Reuters): Saddam Hussein's forces buried a Kurdish family alive in a mass grave during a military operation against ethnic Kurds in the 1980s, a Kurdish woman told the genocide trial of the ousted Iraqi leader yesterday.
UNITED STATES: South Korean nominated as UN sec-gen
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) : South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon was formally nominated as U.N. secretary-general yesterday, only hours after North Korea defied the world body by announcing a nuclear test.
GUYANA: Police probe shooting by soldiers
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP): Venezuelan soldiers on the border with Guyana allegedly shot and killed a Guyanese miner trying to smuggle cheap fuel back across a river separating the two countries, Guyana's Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
IRAQ: Car bomb kills 13, wounds 46
BAGHDAD (Reuters): At least 13 people were killed and 46 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a busy market in northeast Baghdad on Monday, police said. The car was parked on the side of the street in Shalal market in the mainly Shi'ite Shaab district.
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