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Jul 24, 2008
Indicted leader visits Darfur NYALA, Sudan - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir made a defiant visit to Darfur yesterday just a week after being charged with genocide in the war-ravaged region. He vowed not to be intimidated by the indictment, then broke into a tribal dance on a parched field to the delight of cheering supporters. Wearing a beige suit and sunglasses and carrying a silver-tipped cane, Bashir sought to cast himself as a peacemaker. It was his first known visit to Darfur in more than three years, and he rarely allows Western journalists to accompany him anywhere.
"The president came to Darfur to send a message that [the prosecutor] has no case," said Abdel Mahmoud al-Koronky, a member of Bashir's National Congress Party traveling with him. During one stop in northern Darfur, Bashir met with 600 refugees from various tribes, including those he is accused of targeting with atrocities. - AP
Pack of bears eats two men in Russia MOSCOW - A pack of enormous bears in search of food killed and ate two men at mines in Russia's Pacific Kamchatka region and have kept hundreds of geologists and miners from reaching the mine, news agencies reported yesterday.
A pack of up to 30 Kamchatka bears - similar to grizzlies - prowled around two mines where they killed the two guards last Thursday, the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted local officials as saying.
About 400 company workers refused to return to the mines for fear of the bears, which stand 10 feet tall on their hind legs and weigh up to 1,500 pounds, Interfax said. About 10 bears have also been seen near the village of Khailino sniffing fish remains and other garbage. - AP
Sept. vote sought on U.S.-India deal NEW DELHI - The U.S. ambassador to India said yesterday that he hoped a landmark deal on nuclear energy cooperation with the United States could be sent to Congress for approval in September, one day after India's government won a confidence vote that paves the way for agreement to move forward.
Also yesterday, several key Indian political parties, including the communists, said they were forming an alliance to oppose the government.
Although Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made enemies in his bid to push ahead with the nuclear deal, he had the backing of India's powerful business community. Markets surged yesterday as business leaders and investors anticipated a slew of economic changes that had been stalled because of the government's now-defunct alliance with the communists. - AP
Elsewhere:
A British judge sentenced a husband and wife yesterday to more than six years in prison for faking the man's death in a $500,000 insurance scam.
Switzerland warned its citizens not to travel to Libya, saying the African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss police arrested the youngest son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for allegedly beating two of his servants.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the northern Japanese coast early today, injuring at least 43 people, causing blackouts and landslides, officials said.
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