UN Secretary-General Counsels
Patience on Darfur
Ban
Ki-moon says President Bashir of Sudan has given him a
'commitment'
France Votes For New President
to Succeed Chirac
The polls
opened early Sunday morning. Results are expected shortly after the
polls close Sunday night
Gunmen Kill 23 Members of Iraqi
Minority Group
Earlier
Sunday, two suicide car bombers in Baghdad killed at least 12 people
near a police station and wounding more than 75
Israeli Troops Kill at Least 8
Palestinians in Two Days
Palestinian officials say Israeli troops also killed a
Palestinian policeman and a 17-year-old girl; Israeli officials
say they are investigating the incident
Bombings in Afghanistan Kill at
Least Seven
Separately, Afghan authorities said Sunday five Taleban militants
and a police officer were killed in a gun battle Saturday in eastern
Paktia province
Olmert: Iran's Nuclear
Program Can Be Stopped Peacefully
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also defended last year's
war in Lebanon and rejected resuming peace talks with Syria
South Korea Agrees to Resume
Aid to North
Seoul has
agreed to resume massive shipments of rice to impoverished North
Korea, despite Pyongyang's failure to shut its main nuclear
reactor as promised at six-party talks on its nuclear weapons
programs
Bangladesh Awaits Word on
Critical Travel Plans of Battling Begums
Former PM Sheikh Hasina, vowes to return to Bangladesh to face
murder and corruption charges, as former PM Khaleda Zia prepares
to go into voluntary exile, to have corruption charges dropped against
her two sons
India Lags Behind Other
Countries in Access to Anti-AIDS Drugs
Only 70,000 out of 5.7 million HIV carriers get anti-retroviral
therapy in India
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