International News Archive - January 07, 2006
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber hurled himself on a moving police car in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, wounding two policemen, an official said, calling it the latest in a spate of suicide raids by Taliban guerrillas.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber hurled himself on a moving police car in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, wounding two policemen, an official said, calling it the latest in a spate of suicide attacks by Taliban guerrillas.
By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bombers sank a naval patrol boat off Sri Lanka's east coast early on Saturday and 13 of the 15 crew were missing, the navy said, in the worst attack at sea since a 2002 truce halted civil war.
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The first thing Gary Stevens saw after a 650-meter walk down a dark, smoke-filled tunnel was a young man leaning against the wreckage of a London underground train with his left leg missing.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy agreed on Saturday to hand over a U.S. sailor suspected of killing and robbing a 56-year-old Japanese woman to Japanese police, a spokesman said. The U.S.
By Achmad Sukarsono JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian rescuers found scores of bodies buried in mud and debris on Saturday, three days after a massive landslide smashed into a village in Central Java province, raising the death toll to 57.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy handed over a U.S. sailor suspected of killing and robbing a 56-year-old Japanese woman to Japanese police on Saturday, a spokesman said.
By Matthew Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's centrist Liberal Democrats were in suspended animation on Saturday after their leader admitted to an alcohol problem but refused to resign despite pleas from party colleagues.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Five people were killed and 22 injured after a man set off a bomb in a courtroom in far western China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday. The explosion rocked a courthouse in Minle County in Gansu province on Friday morning, Xinhua said, citing local police.
