INDIA: OVER 160 KILLED, HUNDREDS INJURED IN BOMBINGS - Mumbai massacre
MUMBAI (Reuters): BOMBS EXPLODED on packed commuter trains and stations in India's financial hub, Mumbai, yesterday, killing over 160 people and wounding hundreds, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility...
UNITED STATES: Innocent man freed
HARTFORD, Connecticut, (Reuters): A CONNECTICUT judge dropped all charges yesterday against a man who spent 18 years in prison for the rape of a woman which recent genetic tests showed he did not commit.
IRAQ: Bombers kill 16
BAGHDAD (Reuters): SUICIDE BOMBERS struck outside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone yesterday, killing 16 people, close to where Parliament met in heated session to hear at least one lawmaker warn that civil war was close at hand.
CHINA: North Korea sets conditions for talks
PRETORIA/BEIJING, (Reuters)" NORTH KOREA, vilified in the West for its missile tests, said yesterday it was willing to return to six-party talks on its nuclear programme if the United States dropped financial sanctions.
BELGIUM: Iran pleads for time
BRUSSELS, (Reuters): IRAN YESTERDAY rejected Western pressure for an immediate response to an international offer of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment, telling the European Union the proposal lacked proper legal guarantees.
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