International News Archive - June 19, 2006
By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Buddhist monks chanted prayers to mark the 61st birthday of detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday while pro-democracy activists around the world planned protests against the military junta.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-accused on charges of crimes against humanity resumed on Monday with the prosecution team scheduled to make its closing statements. All defendants were present.
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas have killed more than 30 people and abducted 10 in southern Afghanistan, a parliamentarian said on Monday, the latest attack in the bloodiest phase of violence in nearly five years.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki said on Monday his forces will take over security in the southern province of Muthanna next month, where the British oversee a multinational contingent including Japanese and Australian troops.
By Peter Laca BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic met leftist leader Robert Fico on Monday and was expected to ask him to form a coalition government after his Smer party won an election but fell short of a majority.
By Peter Laca BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic was set on Monday to ask leftist leader Robert Fico to form a coalition government after his Smer party won an election but fell short of a majority.
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Rival Pakistani villagers battled each other for water on Monday, using rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades after one group tried to divert an irrigation canal.
By Michael Georgy and Ibon Villelabeitia BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces will take control of the country's southernmost province from a British-led multinational force in July in the first move of its kind, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels said Sri Lankan air force jets flew over their territory on Monday but did not drop bombs -- despite earlier saying that they had.
