UNITED STATES - 'Lock down Guantanamo'
WASHINGTON (Reuters): Former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terrorism suspects should be immediately closed and its inmates moved to the United States.
ITALY - Senator calls ambulance to beat Rome traffic jams
ROME, Italy (Reuters): An Italian senator's boast on television that he cheated traffic jams in Rome during a visit by United States President George W. Bush by calling an ambulance, may cost him a court appearance, officials said yesterday.
AFGHANISTAN - Karzai dodges death
KABUL (AP): Taliban militants fired rockets near President Hamid Karzai in an apparent assassination attempt in central Afghanistan yesterday, but the missiles fell far from their target and no one was hurt, officials and witnesses said.
CHINA - Floods kill 40
BEIJING (AP): At least 40 people have been killed in flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains in China and 178,000 have been left homeless, a state news agency reported yesterday. The highest death toll in the rains, which started Thursday...
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