International News Archive - May 05, 2006
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Former Indonesian president Suharto was in an unstable condition after being admitted to a hospital in Jakarta due to internal bleeding, his doctor said on Friday. "He was admitted yesterday around 6:30 p.m. The complaints were similar to the previous ones.
By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian rescuers struggled on Friday to cut through solid rock a kilometer underground to free two gold miners trapped for nine days, while above ground media groups scrambled to secure rights to their survival story.
MANILA (Reuters) - Five leftist lawmakers, holed up in the Philippine Congress since February to avoid arrest, said on Friday they would try to end their confinement after a court dropped charges linking them to an alleged coup plot.
By Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Supermarket owner Mohammad al-Amin used to have no problem selling food to Palestinian government workers on credit. Not any more.
By Paul Tait BA, Fiji (Reuters) - Fiji's prime minister clashed with the military on the eve of a racially charged election in the unstable South Pacific nation after the armed forces chief urged his troops on Friday not to vote for the government.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Ehud Olmert when the Israeli prime minister returns from a trip to the United States, a senior Abbas aide said on Friday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday said no meeting had been planned between the Israeli leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Earlier, a senior Abbas aide said the two men would meet when Olmert returned from a trip to the United States.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about reviving peace talks, a senior Abbas aide said. Saeb Erekat said Abbas and Olmert would also meet when the Israeli leader returned from a trip to the United States.
By Pawel Sobczak WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's ruling right is set to clinch a majority after seven months of weak minority rule, bringing into government people who had vehemently opposed the ex-communist country's pro-Western course.
