| Page 2 of 2 < |
WORLD IN BRIEF
|
TOOLBOX
   Resize
COMMENT
 Discussion Policy
 CLOSE
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.
Who's Blogging  |
· JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesian rescuers searched for 44 people missing after massive landslides killed at at least 25 people on Flores island, an official said.
AFRIcA
· RABAT, Morocco -- Twelve Islamic militants were convicted of terrorism-related charges Saturday, including eight with alleged ties to al-Qaeda who had volunteered to fight in Iraq, Morocco's official news agency said.
· OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Ivory Coast's government and rebels agreed on a new peace plan to reunite the divided West African state and hold elections after talks in neighboring Burkina Faso.
They said President Laurent Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro, leader of the New Forces rebels who seized the northern half of the country in a 2002-03 civil war, would sign the deal Sunday in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou.
A string of peace deals, including the U.N.-backed peace plan that foresees long-delayed elections by the end of October, have foundered as government, rebel and opposition sides squabble over how they should be implemented.
EUROPE
· MANCHESTER, England -- Soccer's rulemakers clarified that no player can wear a head scarf on the field. The International Football Association Board had been asked at its annual meeting to rule on a decision to ban an 11-year-old Muslim Canadian girl from playing in a tournament near Montreal last weekend because she was wearing a head scarf.
· WARSAW -- Pope Benedict XVI has named a new archbishop of Warsaw, the Polish Episcopate said, filling a post left open when his predecessor resigned after admitting to ties with the communist-era secret police. Kazimierz Nycz, 57, the bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg in northern Poland, replaces former Warsaw archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, who abruptly stepped down Jan. 7.
· LONDON -- A dark red shadow crept across the moon during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world. Although the phenomenon was partly visible on every continent, residents of Europe, Africa and the Middle East had the best view.
Despite cloudy conditions over much of Europe, a variety of Webcasts carried the event live, and astronomers urged the public not to miss out on the spectacle.
Residents of East Asia saw the eclipse cut short by moonset, while those in the eastern parts of North and South America saw a moon already partially or totally eclipsed by the time it rose in the evening.
Eastern Australia, Alaska and New Zealand missed Saturday's show, but residents there will have front-row seats for the next total lunar eclipse, on Aug. 28.
-- From News Services
