ALGIERS, Algeria -- Two car bombs rocked a hotel and military headquarters in Algeria, killing 12 people yesterday, a day after a suicide bombing nearby killed 43. The new bombings were the sixth major terrorist action this month in the North African nation.
No group has claimed responsibility for the recent spate of killings, including the two remote-controlled car bombs that struck the city of Bouira yesterday. But all six occurred in an area east of the capital where militants from an Algerian offshoot of al-Qaida are suspected to operate.
Zambians mourn the death of President Mwanawasa
LUSAKA, Zambia -- Zambians wept on the streets of the capital, parliament suspended its session and even a doctors' strike was called off as the southern African nation mourned its president yesterday.
The Zambian flag flew at half staff throughout the country, and radio and television stations replaced normal programs with messages of condolence after President Levy Mwanawasa died Tuesday in a French military hospital where had been treated since suffering a stroke in June.
"President Mwanawasa was a true servant of the people who served this country with dignity and honor," Kenneth Kaunda, the founding president of Zambia, said in a message that was aired.
Landslides, floods in typhoon kill seven in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines -- Rains from Typhoon Nuri triggered a series of landslides and floods in the northern Philippines, killing seven people before the storm moved on today toward Hong Kong.
Nuri, packing winds of 87 mph and gusts of up to 106 mph, was forecast to make landfall over Guangdong province, just east of Hong Kong on Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Rains yesterday caused landslides in the northern Philippine provinces but the weather cleared today.
Climate-change conference comes at awkward time
ACCRA, Ghana -- Negotiators will meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate-change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming.
But the latest round of talks comes at an awkward moment, with the world's poor more worried about the immediate cost of food and fuel than the uncertain long-term effects of climate change.
The weeklong U.N. climate conference will open today, with nearly 1,600 delegates and environmental experts from more than 150 countries in attendance, to work on an agreement to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases.
France bans marketing TV shows to young children
PARIS -- France's broadcast authority has banned French channels from marketing television shows to children under 3 years old, to shield them from developmental risks that it says television viewing poses at that age.
The ruling also ordered warning messages for parents on foreign baby channels that are broadcast in France -- such as Baby TV, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., and BabyFirstTV, which has ties to News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment.
The High Audiovisual Council, in a ruling published yesterday, said it wanted to "protect children under 3 from the effects of television."
U.S. involvement suspected in missile attack in Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Missiles destroyed a suspected militant hide-out near the Afghan border yesterday where foreign insurgents were known to frequent, killing at least five people, officials said.
The reported strike -- which raised suspicion that the United States was again targeting militants in Pakistan -- came days after Pervez Musharraf's resignation from the presidency triggered a power struggle within the young government.
Leaders of the ruling coalition are divided over who should succeed the former military ruler and on the restoration of judges he fired in a desperate attempt to cling to power.
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