The World

By: JournalNow Staff | JOURNAL WIRE REPORT
Published: November 11, 2009

Another market bomb kills 24 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing 24 people.

The bombing was the fourth in about a month to target a market in or around Peshawar, the main city in the northwest. The attacks have produced some of the largest death tolls in the past few years, killing a total of more than 200 people.

British accuse United pilot of having too much alcohol

LONDON -- A United Airlines pilot who was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said yesterday.

Erwin Vermont Washington, 51, of Lakewood, Colorado, was arrested after officers were called to United Flight 949, which was filled with passengers and due to leave London's Heathrow Airport just after noon Monday.

Seizures of fake U.S. cash are growing in Colombia

BOGOTA -- Colombian authorities say they have seized $19 million in forged U.S. currency so far this year, five times the amount confiscated last year.

Officials said that 16 people have been arrested in Colombia and the United States in connection with the seizures and that seven counterfeiting print shops have been dismantled.

They said yesterday that $4.3 million in counterfeit bills were seized in all of 2008.

Gunmen rush AA meeting in northern Mexico, killing 1

MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four, authorities said yesterday.

Investigators had not determined a motive for the attack late Monday in Chihuahua City, the state capital of Chihuahua, the state prosecutor spokesman Eduardo Esparza said.

10,000 Salvadorans need help after floods, mudslides

VERAPAZ, El Salvador -- At least 10,000 Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid after floods and mudslides destroyed huge swaths of crops during harvest season, the U.N. World Food Program said yesterday.

President Mauricio Funes told reporters that the death toll had risen to at least 160, but lowered the number of homeless to 12,930. Dozens of people remained missing.