LOS ANGELES - A man opened fire with a submachine gun in a Jewish community center on Tuesday and hit five people, severely wounding a 5-year-old boy before escaping and evading hundreds of police aided by dogs and helicopters.
JERUSALEM - Israel sealed off several Palestinian West Bank villages and warned Israelis to be ready for a possible increase in Moslem militant attacks.
ISLAMABAD - Afghanistan‘s ruling Taleban movement defied new U.S. pressure to hand over Saudi-born terrorism suspect Osama bin Laden and said it would not yield to „cruel“ sanctions against its national airline.
BERLIN - A 24-year-old German was in hospital with severe burns on Wednesday after he climbed a power pylon to get a good view of the solar eclipse and then touched the 20,000-volt electricity cable.
ANKARA - An Iraqi Kurdish party has demanded that Abdullah Ocalan‘s rival Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) stop interfering in northern Iraq, in response to a ceasefire offer from the Turkish Kurd guerrillas.
KAMPALA - At least 40 people, half of them children, were massacred in an inter-tribal raid in a remote area of eastern Uganda.
CARACAS - A powerful Constitutional Assembly dominated by supporters of President Hugo Chavez will declare Venezuela „in emergency“ on Thursday, giving it the power to take action in virtually all areas of public life to root out corruption.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A man who killed a teller during a 1980 bank holdup became the third person put to death in Texas in a week when he was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday.
