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AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Airstrike Killed 37 Civilians, Probe Finds
A Afghan-U.S. investigation has found that an airstrike last week killed 37 civilians and wounded 35 after Taliban fighters used the victims' village as cover for an ambush, the U.S. military said late Saturday.
President Hamid Karzai said after the incident that the issue of mounting civilian casualties was the biggest source of tension with his main backer, the United States. He called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop the killing of innocent bystanders.
A string of mistaken U.S. airstrikes this year has killed at least 150 Afghan civilians.
NATO and the U.S. military accuse the Taliban of deliberately launching attacks from within populated areas to provoke a response that kills civilians.
Two Spanish Soldiers Die
Two Spanish soldiers died when a suicide bomber drove into a convoy in western Afghanistan on Sunday, while U.S. coalition forces separately killed 14 insurgents who fired on them, officials said.
The suicide bomber attacked the troops in the western province of Herat, which generally experiences much less violence than southern and eastern provinces.
More U.S. and NATO troops have died in Afghanistan this year than in any other year since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
HAITI
Frustration Over Rescue
Thousands of Haitians gathered Sunday to watch emergency crews pick through the rubble of a collapsed school, and many vented their mounting dissatisfaction with efforts to rescue victims of a disaster that killed at least 88 people.
Residents expressed anger over rumors that rescuers were working slowly to inflate their wages.
Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse in suburban Port-au-Prince, was arrested late Saturday and charged with involuntary manslaughter, a police spokesman said.
