International News Archive - June 21, 2006
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor was in jail in The Hague on Wednesday awaiting the start of his war crimes trial after a flight from Sierra Leone.
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a senior Palestinian militant on Wednesday during a raid to arrest suspects in the West Bank city of Nablus, medics and Israeli military officials said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - One of Saddam Hussein's chief defense lawyers, Khamis al-Obaidi, has been killed by "terrorists," Iraqiya state television said on Wednesday. It gave no details.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police confirmed on Wednesday that one of Saddam's chief defense lawyers, Khamis al -Obaidi, had been killed and said the lawyer had been kidnapped in Baghdad. Police said Obaidi was shot dead and his body was found in the capital.
SINJAI REGENCY, Indonesia (Reuters) - Landslides and floods on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island have killed 87 people and the toll could rise further, officials said on Wednesday.
KIEV (Reuters) - Liberal forces behind Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" said on Wednesday they had agreed to form a coalition government after nearly three months of talks and would sign an agreement within two days.
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned on Wednesday that the world was "sleepwalking" toward nuclear proliferation and must urgently revive efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.
SINJAI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Landslides and floods on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island have killed 114 people and the toll could rise further, officials said on Wednesday. A search-and-rescue operation was underway after two days of heavy rain in several parts of South Sulawesi province.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border killed three paramilitary troops and wounded three on Wednesday, a government official said.
