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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan -- The top U.N. relief coordinator warned that bold initiatives like the Berlin Airlift are needed to save as many as 3 million people left homeless by the Oct. 8 earthquake as winter approaches in the Himalayas.
The World Health Organization, meanwhile, reported that three quake survivors died of tetanus, reinforcing fears that disease and infected injuries could drive the death toll of about 79,000 far higher.
BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Police said they had arrested the former economic development minister and his brother, the head of an oil shipper, for plotting a coup against President Ilham Aliyev less than three weeks before parliamentary elections.
MOLDOVANOVKA, Kyrgyzstan -- Inmates took control of a prison outside the Kyrgyz capital and killed a lawmaker who arrived to look into prisoners' conditions, the government said. There were no details on how the shooting occurred.
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LONDON -- Britain's opposition Conservative Party narrowed its search for a new leader to a young reformer and a law-and-order hard-liner. David Cameron, 39, considered a centrist, topped the party's secret ballot of lawmakers with 90 votes, making him the favorite to lead the Conservatives against Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party in the next election.
Second with 57 votes was David Davis, 56, who is considered the standard-bearer of the party's right wing. Cameron and Davis have six weeks to woo the party's 300,000 grass-roots members who will elect a leader in early December.
MOSCOW -- Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been sent to Siberia to serve his eight-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion, authorities said, sparking outrage among rights activists and his attorneys.
