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Anarchists battle police in two cities in Greece
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Published: December 8, 2008
ATHENS, Greece -- Hundreds of youths angered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager rampaged through Greece's two largest cities for a second day yesterday in some of the worst rioting the country has seen in years.
Gangs smashed stores, torched cars and erected burning barricades in the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki. Riot police clashed with groups of mostly self-styled anarchists throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air, sending passers-by scurrying for cover.
Rioting in several cities, including Hania in Crete and cities in northern Greece, began within hours of the death Saturday night of a 15-year-old shot by police in Exarchia.
McCain: Situation will get more difficult in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Sen. John McCain said yesterday that the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier -- "just like the surge in Iraq was" -- as the U.S. prepares to pour thousands more troops into the country, including on the doorsteps of Kabul.
The former Republican presidential candidate, who is to report back to President-elect Obama, visited the southern province of Helmand, where he said that NATO forces are at a stalemate with insurgents.
8 more bodies found buried in shallow grave in Mexico
MORELIA, Mexico -- Mexican soldiers have found at least eight bodies buried in a shallow grave in the violence-plagued state of Michoacan, authorities said.
The bodies discovered on Saturday had been cut in pieces and burned, Mexico's Defense Department said in a statement yesterday.
Soldiers found the remains buried in the patio of a house in the outskirts of the city of Uruapan.
Pakistan went on alert after ‘threatening' call from India
NEW DELHI -- Pakistani authorities put the air force on high alert after their president received a "threatening" late-night call they said came straight from the Indian government as gunmen rampaged across Mumbai. India dismissed the call as a hoax, and its foreign minister flatly denied yesterday that he was involved.
The circumstances surrounding the call are unclear, but it underscores the high tensions and deep mistrust between the nuclear-armed rivals, which have fought three wars against each other.
Indian authorities say that a banned Pakistani-based militant group trained the gunmen and plotted the Mumbai siege that left 171 people dead.
Intervention in Zimbabwe needed, Kenya official says
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Foreign troops should prepare to intervene in Zimbabwe to end a worsening humanitarian crisis and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe should be investigated for crimes against humanity, the Kenyan prime minister said yesterday.
Raila Odinga, in the latest sign of growing international frustration over Zimbabwe's slide into chaos, urged the African Union to call an emergency meeting to authorize sending troops into Zimbabwe.
Thai opposition party calls for session to show majority
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's main opposition party called yesterday for an emergency parliament session to prove its majority in a bid to form the next government and end months of political chaos, as loyalists of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra struggled to stay in power.
A new administration should bring some semblance of stability to this Southeast Asian nation, which has been gripped by political uncertainty since August when protesters -- driven by a single-minded hatred for Thaksin and his allies -- seized the prime minister's office and later overran the capital's two airports in a bid to topple government.
The opposition Democrat Party said it will ask the speaker of Parliament today to call a session of the lower house so that it can prove it has a majority. Both Thaksin's allies and the opposition say they have enough support to form a government.
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