 Russia's most wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed by the country's special forces, the state security chief has told President Vladimir Putin. FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday that Basayev, who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school attack in which 331 people, half of them children, were killed, was planning an attack to coincide with Russia hosting the G8 summit of world leaders this weekend.CNN's Matthew Chance said the killing was a massive victory for the security services and a huge blow for the rebel leadership.Basayev, together with other Chechen fighters, was killed in Ingushetia, a region neighboring Chechnya, where rebels are battling for independence....
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 400 workers stranded at Kuala Lumpur airport |
Some 400 people are stranded at Kuala Lumpur's international airport because of travel document irregularities and labour agents failing to meet workers whose employment they have arranged in Malaysia, the country's human rights commission said today.In a crisis that has been going on for more than a year but has only just come to light, most of the stranded people - predominantly manual labourers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal - are waiting up to a fortnight to be collected, the rights commissioner, Siva Subramaniam, told the Guardian today. "Some are so poor they cannot even afford to eat," he said. "So they have to survive on water until their agents turn up to collect them."It is a continuous problem, Mr Siva said, because as soon as some people are collected more arrive and have no way out of the airport. "One person told us that at one point there were more than 600 people stuck," he said....
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| Mass. court: Homosexual marriage amendment can go on ballot |
The same court that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage ruled Monday that a proposed constitutional amendment to ban future same-sex marriages can be placed on the ballot, if approved by the Legislature.The ruling was the result of a lawsuit brought by gay-rights supporters who argued that Attorney General Tom Reilly was wrong to approve the question, saying that the state constitution bars any citizen-initiated amendment that seeks to reverse a judicial ruling.In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Judicial Court said the constitution does not bar citizen initiatives from making prospective changes to the constitution, even if that effectively overrules the effect of a prior court decision, because that change would not be a reversal....
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| River sweeps 5 children to their deaths Victims, believed to be under 15, were on church outing |
The rushing Meramec River swept five children to their deaths during a church outing, authorities said Monday.A sixth child was rescued and remained hospitalized, said Becky Haskamp, a dispatcher for the Missouri State Water Patrol.The body of the final victim was recovered around 6 a.m. Monday, about 12 hours after the children disappeared while wading in the river at Castlewood State Park, southwest of St. Louis, said Haskamp....
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| Prisons, jails urged to target TB |
Tuberculosis is "particularly problematic" in U.S. correctional and detention facilities, say federal health officials, who have updated guidelines for preventing the spread of TB in jails and prisons. "Effective TB prevention and control measures in correctional facilities are needed to reduce TB rates among inmates and the general U.S. population," say authors of a report published in the current issue of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. "Inmates with undiagnosed TB disease place other inmates and correctional staff at risk for TB, and when released, these persons also can infect persons living in surrounding communities," the researchers said. In the report, G. Scott Earnest and other CDC epidemiologists point out that the number of U.S. prison inmates quadrupled from 500,000 in 1980 to about 2 million in 2003. ...
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| Japan debates strikes on N. Korea |
Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime.While Japan talked of sanctions, China -- North Korea's top ally and benefactor -- pressed ahead with its diplomatic efforts to draw North Korea back to stalled six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons program, dispatching a high-profile delegation to Pyongyang on Monday.U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill huddled with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso and other officials in Tokyo on a tour of the region to coordinate a common strategy on the North's missile tests last week and urge Pyongyang to drop its months-long boycott of the nuclear talks...
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