Moscow— Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev
on Thursday said he would work in “tandem” with
Vladimir Putin, who was to be confirmed as the
country’s prime minister at an extraordinary
session of parliament.“I think no one has any
doubt that our tandem, our cooperation, will
only continue to strengthen,” Medvedev told
deputies of the lower house, the State Duma,
which was set to confirm Putin as premier.
Seoul— A top US official left Thursday for North
Korea for talks on its long-awaited nuclear
declaration, just two weeks after Washington
accused Pyongyang of helping Syria build an
atomic reactor.
Harare — Pressure mounted on the Zimbabwe
government Thursday to admit foreign observers
to oversee a presidential election run-off amid
fresh claims that pro-government militias were
instilling terror in the countryside. As the
opposition alleged that 30 supporters had now
been killed and a union leader said 40,000
farmworkers and their dependents had been made
homeless, the authorities played down the levels
of violence.
Yangon, Myanmar— Myanmar’s isolationist regime
allowed the first plane of a major international
airlift to land Thursday with aid for cyclone
survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that
lack of safe food and drinking water could push
the death toll above 100,000.
MY YOUNGEST one is as old as the young son of
Sami Al Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was
carried home to freedom on a stretcher this
week, after seven years in the Guantanamo Bay.
