World NewsUPDATED: 11:27, July 03, 2007 |
Argentine President Nestor Kirchner has declined to stand for re-election and is instead backing his wife as candidate in the upcoming presidential election, Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernandez said Monday. The only submarine owned by Ukraine's navy will be put up for sale after a complete overhaul is finished, the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency reported on Monday. The Czech Republic has received no intelligence indicating that Prague might be a target for terrorist attacks, Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer said Monday in response to an ABC report. Venezuela on Monday received the rotating presidency of the South American Conference on Migration during a meeting here. Brazil's Federal Police have carried out 357 major operations and arrested 6,225 people since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office in 2003, local daily Folha reported on Monday. The Brazilian government will spend over 1 billion U.S. dollars to improve infrastructure and services in Rio de Janeiro's slums in a bid to free them from the grip of gangs, said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Monday. Peru's National Police incinerated more than five tons of drugs on Monday in the Ate neighborhood in Lima. Guatemalan President Oscar Berger met on Monday with his visiting South Korean counterpart Roh Moo-hyun, who is here to promote South Korean city Pyeongchang's candidacy for the venue of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The European Union on Monday called on Poland and France to stick to their commitments after media reports said Poland's prime minister had questioned the decision-making system while France wanted a two-year delay for budget deficits eradication. Nicaragua's National Police (PN) on Monday announced it has registered 91,900 people with guns since 2005. Australia has a bigger portion of Muslim youths at risk of turning to radical Islam than any other Western nation, with up to 3,000 in "ideological sleeper cells" in Sydney alone, a government-backed study said yesterday. US Senator Barack Obama outraised Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by $10 million in second-quarter contributions that can be spent on the Democratic presidential primary contest, aided by the contributions of 154,000 individual donors. Rapid economic growth has lifted millions in Asia out of extreme poverty, but the continent has at the same time experienced a dramatic rise in income inequality, the United Nations said in a report yesterday. Chadian President Idriss Deby's son Brahim, touted as a possible successor, was found dead near his home outside Paris yesterday and police launched a murder investigation, French police and court officials said. Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's cozy stay at the Bush family's century-old seaside retreat, it is unlikely the two leaders will find common ground on thorny issues such as the US missile shield in Eastern Europe or Kosovo's future, analysts say. Hamas yesterday arrested the spokesman of a shadowy group holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston, a move that could give it a bargaining chip to secure the Briton's release. Senior Iranian leaders know about the operations of Iran's Qods Force in fomenting violence in Iraq, the US military said yesterday, in some of the most direct accusations yet against Teheran over the chaos in Iraq. US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday played down a report Al-Qaida was planning a big attack on the United States, saying there was no credible information about an imminent threat. British police arrested two more suspects in a hunt for members of a suspected Al-Qaida cell which rammed a fuel-packed jeep into a Scottish airport and left two car bombs in London, police said yesterday. US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin projected a united front yesterday against Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Brazilian ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte on Monday was named as the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said. Australian police have arrested an eighth person suspected of having links with attempted car bombings in Britain, local broadcasts said Tuesday. Unionized workers of South Korea's Kia Motors Corp. vowed to launch strike on Tuesday for a pay hike and bonuses, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. A doctor has been arrested in Australia's state of Queensland in connection with the failed car bombings in the United Kingdom, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio reported Tuesday. Spanish King Juan Carlos on Monday expressed his "anger, condemnation and rejection" over a car bomb attack that killed at least six Spanish tourists and injured six others in Yemen. Guatemala is to deploy more than 2,000 police and troops in a major security operation to ensure Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the country goes smoothly, police said Monday. Australian police have arrested an eighth person suspected of links with car bombing attempts in Britain, the local broadcast said Tuesday. U.S. President George W. Bush decided on Monday to spare I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, from serving a 30-months jail term. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon condemned on Monday the deadly terrorist attack in Yemen. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Afghan President Hamid Karzai took part in the international conference of boosting Afghanistan's justice system which was opened in Italian capital Rome on Monday. |
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