Reuters - Leaders of Pakistan’s coalition
parties made progress in talks to save the month-old government
on Wednesday but will meet again on Thursday to try and resolve
remaining issues, officials said.
AP - A dissident former general has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for bombing attacks on Spanish and Colombian diplomatic missions in Venezuela’s capital.
AP - The Israeli military said Wednesday that initial findings from its investigation into the killing of a Reuters news agency cameraman indicated that troops did not realize they were firing at a journalist.
Reuters - Italians were surprised, and in some cases
outraged, on Wednesday to discover that their income levels
were available for public viewing on an Internet site.
AP - Hundreds of intelligence agents on Wednesday raided the hideout of militants with suspected links to an attack on President Hamid Karzai, as the Afghan capital was sucked deeper into the war against the Taliban.
AP - Pakistan’s new leaders failed to meet their Wednesday deadline to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf, but said they would keep trying to resolve a dispute that is threatening their month-old coalition government.
AFP - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader was on track to win the first round of a presidential election against the incumbent Robert Mugabe, sources told AFP on Wednesday, more than four weeks after voting day.
AP - Australia’s new government won praise Wednesday for its plan to eliminate discrimination against gay couples in more than 100 laws, but even those applauding said it should go further and approve same sex marriages.
AP - DNA tests carried out by a U.S. laboratory prove that remains exhumed last year belong to two children of Czar Nicholas II, putting to rest questions about what happened to Russia’s last royal family, a regional governor said Wednesday.
Reuters - The days when Venice tolerated tourists
feeding pigeons in St. Mark’s Square are over.
