Moscow— Russia’s United Russia party, widely
considered a rubber stamp for the Kremlin, began
a congress Monday at which it was to ask
President Vladimir Putin to become leader, party
officials said.
Beijing —A LARGE spill of toxic slurry from a
mine has turned part of a northern Chinese river
black and fouled it with dangerous chemicals,
state media said on Monday. The accident
occurred on Friday in Shaanxi province when the
sides of a catchment basin for toxic tailings,
or mining debris, at a vanadium mine collapsed
after heavy rain, the Shaanxi-based Chinese
Business View reported.
Taipei— China and Taiwan have agreed to restart
official dialogue after a gap of nearly a
decade, Taiwan Vice President-elect Vincent Siew
said on Monday as relations appear to thaw under
a new more China-friendly administration.
Singapore—Rising food prices are driving more
people in Singapore, the wealthiest economy in
Southeast Asia, to join the queue for free
meals, charities said Monday.
THE painful results of the bloody war in Iraq is
taking its punishing toll on Iraqis, Americans
and the entire region. Especially in light of
the bitter harvest of the war which has taken
its toll on the “liberators” or the “occupiers”
and the occupied people and their country, and
has failed to achieve any of its strategic
declared or undeclared objectives.
