 With defiance of royal rule spreading, security forces fatally shot a fifth protester Monday while King Gyanendra searched for a way out of a crisis that has plunged the Himalayan land into its worst turmoil since he seized absolute power 14 months ago. Twelve days of often-bloody pro-democracy protests and a general strike have emptied Nepal's highways, leaving cities short of fresh food and fuel. At one Katmandu hotel, the dinner menu was scribbled on a pink post-it note. A convoy guarded by armored army vehicles headed toward the capital Tuesday with salt, fruits and vegetables, cooking fuel and gasoline the first batch of supplies and passengers to head for Katmandu in nearly two weeks. Protesters tried to stop the convoy on Monday but soldiers opened fire, wounding at least five. ...
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 U.S. troops fend off coordinated attacks on sites in Ramadi |
U.S. troops repelled an attack Monday by Sunni Arab insurgents who used suicide car bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons in a coordinated assault against this city's main government building and two U.S. observation posts. The fighting in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, provided fresh evidence that the insurgency is thriving in Sunni Arab-dominated areas despite last month's decline in U.S. deaths. In Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces fought an hours-long gunbattle with about 50 insurgents in the Sunni Arab district of Azamiyah, the U.S. military said. Five insurgents were killed and two Iraqi troops were wounded, the U.S. said. There were no reports of U.S. casualties in the 90-minute attack in Ramadi, the second in the past 10 days against the government headquarters for Anbar. ...
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| Flood chaos as Danube reaches 100-year high |
Authorities in Romania and Bulgaria were working frantically yesterday to shore up flood defences after the Danube reached its highest levels for more than a century.Emergency teams and soldiers were trying to prevent further flooding, after a weekend in which hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes. Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria were the worst hit.Melting snow and steady rain have seen the Danube, which flows from Germany and Austria through the Balkans to the Black Sea, reach levels not seen since 1895. In Romania officials have taken the drastic step of deliberately flooding farmland and forested areas to protect towns. Communities have been evacuated in parts of Serbia, including the town of Smederevo, 24 miles east of the capital, Belgrade. Here the Danube swamped a medieval fortress and railway line. Soldiers were eventually able to stop the waters with sandbags and soil....
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| Israel calls Mideast terror "declarations of war" |
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations called actions by Iran, Syria and Palestinian leaders "declarations of war," but the Palestinian envoy said Israel's attacks on Gaza were inhumane and violated international law. The two diplomats on Monday opened a U.N. Security Council debate that included some 35 speakers. The session had been scheduled before Monday's Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, in which nine people were killed and 60 wounded.Nevertheless, the Palestinian U.N. observer, Riyad Mansour, echoed the condemnation made by Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority. The Hamas-led Palestinian government has not made similar comments."We restate our condemnation of the loss of innocent lives, Palestinian and Israelis, and we call upon the occupying power to do the same," Mansour told the council....
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| Suspect kills himself after murder of US sex offenders |
A Canadian man wanted in the US in connection with the murder of two registered sex offenders shot himself on a crowded bus, police said yesterday.As a web register carrying the names, addresses and photographs of 2,200 sex offenders in the state of Maine remained offline yesterday, investigators tried to establish a connection between the two men shot dead in their homes on Easter Day and the young Canadian, who had been in the state visiting his father. Joseph Gray, 57, was shot at about 3am at his home in Corinth in central Maine. Five hours later and 80 miles away, there was a knock at the door of William Elliott, 24, in the town of Milo. Elliott, like Gray, was a registered sex offender, and had served four months for abuse in 2002."He went to the door, opened it up, and the guy just started shooting," the man's father, Wayne Elliott, told the Bangor Daily News yesterday. "He kept shooting after he fell to the floor."...
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| Official: U.N. Renovation Delays Costing $225,000 a Day |
Delays in the renovation of the United Nations headquarters, caused chiefly by the United States, are adding $225,000 a day to the project's costs, a U.N. official said Monday. The United States is the lone holdout on the committee that must approve the next $100 million needed to proceed with the estimated $1.6 billion renovation, said Fritz Reuter, the U.N. official overseeing the program.The projected cost of the project was good up through April 1. Every subsequent day of delay adds an estimated $225,000 — $3.8 million so far, he said.U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the United States only wants to grant approval for some $23.5 million because the General Assembly needs to agree on how to proceed with the project....
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