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VENEZUELA
Naval Exercises Planned With Russia in Caribbean
Several Russian ships and 1,000 soldiers will take part in joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea this year, a pro-government newspaper reported Saturday.
Quoting Venezuela's naval intelligence director, Salbarore Cammarata, the newspaper Vea said four Russian boats would visit Venezuelan waters Nov. 10 to 14.
Cammarata said it would be the first time Russia's navy carried out such exercises in Latin America. He said the Venezuelan air force would also take part in the maneuvers.
The planned operations come at a time of heightened diplomatic tension and Cold War-style rhetoric between Russia and the United States, over both the recent war in Georgia and plans for a U.S. missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland.
EGYPT
Lethal Rockslide in Cairo
A clifftop in Cairo weakened by the untreated sewage of an illegal slum on its peak sheared off Saturday into more slum homes below, crushing to death at least 24 people, authorities said.
The rockslide into the shantytown of Manshiyet Nasr, outside Egypt's capital, buried at least 35 homes under boulders, some the size of houses.
As many as half of Cairo's 16 million people live in what the government calls "informal housing," without treated water or sewer services.
-- Ellen Knickmeyer
