PAKISTAN - Rainstorms kill hundreds
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP):A pre-monsoon thunderstorm knocked down houses, severed electrical cables and killed 228 people in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, officials said yesterday. The toll from Saturday's high winds and rain rose after 185 more bodies were counted...
IRAQ - 'Chemical Ali' to hang
BAGHDAD (AP): Saddam Hussein's cousin and two other former regime officials were convicted yesterday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang for the brutal crackdown that killed up to 180,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas ...
SAUDI ARABIA - Banks to segregate men, women in HQ
RIYADH (Reuters):Saudi authorities have ordered banks to separate female and male workers at their headquarters in a new setback for women's rights in the conservative kingdom.Banks are one of the main employers of women in Saudi Arabia.
UNITED KINGDOM - William back with ex
LONDON (AP):Prince William and former girlfriend Kate Middleton have resumed their relationship, British newspapers reported yesterday. The young couple, who announced in April they had split, attended a party at an army barracks together earlier this month...
Brown promises to renew, listen and learn
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters):Britain's incoming Prime Minister, GordonBrown, vowed yesterday to renew the government and learn lessons from the war in Iraq as he took the helm of the ruling Labour Party from Tony Blair. Brown, 56, said health,...
UNITED STATES - Fewer blacks willing to fight Uncle Sam's wars
WASHINGTON (AP): The number of blacks joining the United States military has plunged by more than one third since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began. Other job prospects are soaring and relatives of potential recruits increasingly are discouraging them from joining...
Bomb kills four UN peacekeepers
KHIYAM (Reuters):A roadside bomb killed four Spanish peacekeepers and wounded three yesterday in the first such attack on United Nations (U.N.) forces in Lebanon since last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah, security sources said...
MIDDLE EAST - Hamas labels Israel funding 'blackmail'
JERUSALEM (Reuters): Israel agreed yesterday to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's new government, a move Hamas dismissed as "bribery" to fuel tensions with Islamists controlling Gaza.
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