General News Archive - June 26, 2006
By Ranga Sirilal PANIPITIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - A senior Sri Lankan army general was assassinated on Monday by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber just east of the capital, police and military said.
By Ranga Sirilal PANIPITIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - A senior Sri Lankan army general was assassinated on Monday by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber just east of the capital, police and military said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Waves of heavy showers and thunderstorms drenched Washington and the surrounding mid-Atlantic on Sunday, triggering flash flooding that swelled streams over their banks and shut roads throughout the region.
DILI (Reuters) - When East Timor's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta resigned his government posts, he did so via a mobile phone text message.
By David Fox DILI (Reuters) - East Timor's embattled prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, resigned on Monday, saying he would share responsibility for a political crisis that has gripped Asia's newest nation for over two months.
DENVER (Reuters)- A gunman opened fire inside a Safeway Inc. grocery chain warehouse on Sunday, killing one person and wounding four others before being shot dead by police, authorities said.
BAGRAM (Reuters) - A suicide bomber died in Afghanistan on Monday before he could ram his car into a convoy of U.S.-led coalition troops, police said. None of the soldiers was hurt, but two teenaged Afghan civilians were wounded in the blast.
Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian officials said on Monday they were trying to locate an Israeli soldier believed to have been abducted by Gaza Strip gunmen in a border raid that prompted Israel to threaten a major military offensive.
By David Fox DILI (Reuters) - East Timor's embattled prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, resigned on Monday, saying he would share responsibility for a political crisis that has gripped Asia's newest nation for over two months.
