International News Archive - July 17, 2006
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian police officers scoured Mumbai's slums and largely Muslim ghettos on Monday, looking for suspects in last week's railway network bombings, but were no closer to a breakthrough yet, police said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Torrential rains killed at least 164 people across south China over the weekend, flooding major cities, sweeping away houses and cutting off a main rail link, state media reported on Monday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Torrential rains killed at least 164 people across south China over the weekend, flooding major cities, sweeping away houses and cutting off a main rail link, state media reported on Monday.
RAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a government relief camp early on Monday and killed at least 17 people including members of a state-backed, anti-Maoist group in central India, police said.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will meet senior member of his ruling party and lawmakers later on Monday to fend off mounting calls for him to step down over a string of financial scandals.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police caught a Palestinian suspected of being en route to carry out a bombing in Jerusalem on Monday, a police spokesman said.
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Prosecutors are to announce on Monday whether British police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber will face criminal charges.
By Mohammed Abbas KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sharp differences emerged on Monday between Sudan and the international community over the purpose of an upcoming conference world powers say is aimed at pushing for a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said on Monday that no Israeli jet or helicopter had been shot down over Lebanon but did not rule out that a drone many have been downed.
