NEPAL: Order to shoot torch protesters - Activists plan Mount Everest climb
KATMANDU (AP): Nepalese soldiers and police guarding the slopes of Mount Everest are authorised to shoot to stop any protests during China's Olympic torch run to the summit, an official said yesterday.Chinese climbers plan...
Dozens slain in gunfights
MOGADISHU (AP): Sporadic street fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamic fighters trying to bring down Somalia's shaky government has killed 81 people in the past two days, the head of a local human rights group said Sunday....
ARGENTINA - Farmers get fiery rebuke
BUENOS AIRES (AP): President Cristina Fernandez surveyed more than 200 raging brush fires by air, vowing to prosecute anyone who lit the blazes that have sent smoke billowing across the capital, clouding highways and grounding jetliners....
ZIMBABWE - Opposition claims gov't victimisation
HARARE (AP):Zimbabwe resembles a war zone, with thousands of people displaced, hundreds injured and 10 killed by post-election violence, an opposition leader said Sunday as he appealed for international intervention. Tendai Biti,...
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