International News
BEICHUAN, China - Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of floods from rivers blocked by landslides rattled loose in this week's powerful temblor.
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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - President Bush said Saturday that the Saudis' modest increase in oil production is "something but it doesn't solve our problem" of soaring gas prices.
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BAGHDAD - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, met with the Iraqi prime minister Saturday during a surprise visit to Baghdad.
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The junta took a group of foreign diplomats on a tour of the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta on Saturday, but the top U.S. envoy in the country dismissed the trip as "a show" designed to impress the world.
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Spokesman George Sibotshiwe told The Associated Press that "we have received information from a credible source concerning a planned assassination attempt."
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - Leaders of Lebanon's U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition met behind closed doors in Qatar on Saturday for the highest-level talks so far in the country's 18-month-long political crisis, which turned violent a week ago.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - A Western diplomat says pirates have hijacked a Jordanian ship off the coast of Somalia.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - A series of clashes, airstrikes and bomb blasts left 10 militants and four civilians killed in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
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TAILANDIA, Brazil - Acrid smoke from charcoal-making blankets this Amazon logging town with the smell of business as usual. Less than three months ago, federal agents swooped in to close sawmills, confiscate wood and smash charcoal furnaces in a government crackdown on illegal logging.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Islamic insurgents in Somalia seized a major agricultural center overnight, sending hundreds of people fleeing, a human rights leader said Saturday.
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