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A local resident searching for survivors peers underneath rubble following a rock slide from the towering Muqattam cliffs onto the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr shanty town on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.

Death toll in Egypt rock slide at 47
The Charlotte Observer

CAIRO, Egypt The death toll from a devastating rock slide that buried a shanty town rose to 47 on Monday, a security official said as recovery efforts switched to high gear after days of delay. The death toll was expected to climb sharply as recovery efforts hastened, officials said. A total of 47 bodies had been pulled from the site of Saturday's...

photo: AP / Ben Curtis

Opinion Worldwide

Leading article: Sarkozy's small steps in Moscow
The Independent

Nicolas Sarkozy faces a hard task when he travels to Moscow today in an attempt to bridge...

Daniel Howden: Hope for Africa lies in political reforms
The Independent

There is already famine in Africa but it is not the fault of the Soil Association or British...

Sean O'Grady: The world depends on the two Fs
The Independent

"Too big to fail" is an expression that well suits Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The US Treasury...

Same old China in the face of H.H the Dalai Lama's hope

Pro. Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of Tibetan Govt. in-exile

WorldNews.com

Interview by Mr. Archie Fellowes In the aftermath of the Olympics, Tibet Post International set out to gage the various views held by some of the Tibetan Institutes-in-exile in Dharamsala. We have responses from Mr. Thubten Samphel, secretary of the...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang

Oil prices rise on eve of OPEC meeting

An unidentified woman lays clothes out to dry on an oil pipeline running through the Okrika neighborhood of Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, in this Oct. 7 2006 file photo. Oil prices dropped nearly $2 a barrel, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 on hopes that the inauguration of a new president in OPEC member Nigeria would contribute to a stable supply from the Niger Delta region

Middle East Online

LONDON - Oil prices rallied Monday on expectations that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would begin cutting crude output as prices hover close to the 100 dollar-a-barrel mark, traders said. The market was also relieved by the US...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba, file

Corruption charges dog Olmert

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (ayt1)

Canada Dot Com

JERUSALEM - Israeli police recommended Sunday that the attorney general file corruption charges against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Senior police officers alleged that the 62-year-old former mayor of Jerusalem accepted as much as $150,000 in bribes...
photo: AP Photo / Uriel Sinai

Hague considers Georgia's claims of Russian human rights abuse

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands, Kirill Gevorgian, front center, talks to Professor Alain Pellet, right, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.

Novosti

THE HAGUE, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The International Court of Justice in The Hague began hearings on Monday into Georgian claims of Russian human rights violations. Tbilisi claims that Russian forces and local militias infringed the human rights...
photo: AP / Evert-Jan Daniels

Dispute over Kashmir takes a new, independent direction

Toledo Blade

AFTER a few years of relative calm, the Himalayan region of Kashmir was in turmoil recently. There were large demonstrations against Indian rule and, for the first time, Pakistan was not blamed for the upheaval. The trouble started three months ago...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

Several Explosions in Pakistan's Northwest Kill 6

Pakistani rescue and security officials examine the site of a bomb explosion at the office of the Federal Investigation Agency in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, March 11, 2008

ABC News

By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD Associated Press Writer DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan September 8, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press FONT SIZE Several explosions, reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned U.S. drone aircraft, hit a house and seminary linked to...
photo: (AP Photo / K.M. Chaudary)

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