Deluge as 'Dean' hits
CHETUMAL, Mexico (Reuters): Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico's Caribbean coast yesterday, flooding streets, toppling trees in beach resorts and blowing the roofs off houses, but there were no immediate reports of deaths. Water surged down a main street...
Bush offers help to hurricane victims
MONTEBELLO, Quebec (AP): United States President George W.Bush, at a North American summit yesterday, offered U.S. assistance and expressed his concern for the citizens of Mexico and elsewhere whose lives were affected by Hurricane Dean.
Outrage halts plan for virginity tests
JAKARTA (Reuters): A plan to carry out virginity tests on female high school students in a district in Indonesia's West Java province has been dropped after a public outcry, media reports said. The head of Indramayu district, Irianto Syafiuddin...
South Korea wants more time for talks
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters): South Korea has asked Taliban kidnappers for more time in talks over the fate of the remaining 19 Korean hostages held in Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman said yesterday. Talks between Taliban and Korean negotiators are deadlocked ...
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