Reuters North American News Service, January 20th, 2008
COLUMBIA - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary
Clinton looked on Sunday toward the next battles in an
unpredictable White House race after scoring tough wins in the
first major presidential voting in the U.S. South and West.
BELGRADE - Serbs voted on Sunday in the first round of a
presidential election that could decide future ties with the
West after the expected loss of its breakaway Kosovo province.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a
dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being used in
Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi
militias.
NAIROBI - Attackers hacked three people to death with
machetes in a slum in Kenya's capital on Sunday in ethnic
clashes triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed
re-election last month, witnesses said.
TBILISI - Georgia and Russia pledged to repair their
tattered relationship on Sunday after Mikhail Saakashvili was
sworn in as Georgian president, the first concrete sign of an
improvement.
GAZA - Gaza's main power plant began shutting down on
Sunday due to a fuel shortage caused by Israel's closure of the
Hamas-controlled territory's borders, a move taken in response
to Palestinian rocket attacks.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan villagers said army helicopter
gunships launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a
stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination
of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
HAVANA - Cubans voted in parliamentary elections on Sunday
that could start a transition to a post-Castro government in
Cuba after half a century of rule by the Communist
revolutionary.
VATICAN CITY - Tens of thousands of students, politicians
and ordinary Romans thronged the Vatican on Sunday in a major
show of sympathy for Pope Benedict after protests led him to
cancel a speech at Rome's top university this week.
MOGADISHU - Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's
house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister
arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in
last November, a presidential aide said.
PRAGUE - Former Czech President Vaclav Havel was taken to
hospital with a heart problem but is feeling well, Czech
television reported on Sunday.
