World News Headlines for october 7, 2008

Iraq's FM: 'Bold' decisions needed on bases deal AP - 59 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi foreign minister said Tuesday it will require "bold political decisions" to resolve the major issue standing in the way of a deal allowing American troops to remain here next year — who would try U.S. troops accused of crimes.
Iran forces down Hungarian flight AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land after it entered its airspace, Hungary's Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan after it was determined the entry was accidental.
Turkish jets bomb Kurdish targets in Iraq, Turkey AP - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey early Tuesday in retaliation for an attack that killed 17 soldiers, the Turkish military said.

UK set to launch bank rescue deal Reuters - 23 minutes ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Finance Minister Alistair Darling will announce a rescue package for the UK banking system on Wednesday and a government source said it was likely to include public money being injected into banks.
Far-right Austria governor isolates asylum seekers AP - 29 minutes ago
VIENNA, Austria - Powerful far-right politician Joerg Haider has set up a holding facility in the remote mountains of southern Austria for asylum seekers suspected as criminals, saying they need to be isolated to protect the people in the area.
Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis Time.com - 48 minutes ago
Some analysts say the case-by-case approach of national governments is undermining confidence rather than bolstering it

Tropical Storm Marco hits Mexico's Gulf coast AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago
VERACRUZ, Mexico - Tropical Storm Marco roared ashore on Mexico's Gulf coast with near-hurricane force winds on Tuesday, prompting a shutdown of some oil platforms.
Official links Mexican drug gangs, Colombia rebels AP - 2 hours, 53 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia's main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime.
Tropical Storm Marco roars ashore on Mexico's Gulf AP - Tue Oct 7, 10:59 AM ET
MEXICO CITY - The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marco is hitting land north of Mexico's Veracruz port on the Gulf coast.

UN rights chief, Amnesty, criticise SAfrica over xenophobia AFP - 11 minutes ago
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - The UN human rights chief Tuesday urged South Africa to do more to stop xenophobic violence, as Amnesty International said officials had failed to help foreigners displaced by the attacks.
UN calls for action to fight pirates off Somalia AP - 27 minutes ago
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling on all countries with a stake in maritime safety off Somalia to send naval ships and military aircraft to confront growing piracy there.
Anti-coup protesters clash with police in Mauritania AFP - 40 minutes ago
NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) - Police in military-ruled Mauritania clashed Tuesday with protesters supporting ousted president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, as the African Union urged the junta to reinstate the elected leader.

NKorea reportedly fires missile into Yellow Sea AP - 46 minutes ago
TOKYO - North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Yellow Sea, media reports said Tuesday.
Chinese lawyers face pressure to drop milk cases AP - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
BEIJING - Lawyers advising the families of children sickened in China's tainted milk scandal said Tuesday they are facing growing official pressure to withdraw from the cases.
NKorea fires short-range missiles: Yonhap AFP - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military drill, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said early Wednesday, quoting a defence source.

Liberals mull higher deposit insurance Reuters - 5 minutes ago
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - The leader of Canada's main opposition party, Stephane Dion, said on Tuesday he would consider following the lead of other countries in raising the insurance limit on banking deposits.
Harper says Afghan mission can't last indefinitely Reuters - 43 minutes ago
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The history of Afghanistan demonstrates that foreign troops cannot stay there indefinitely in an attempt to completely suppress all insurgency, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.
Economy might just cost Tories the election Reuters - 2 hours, 8 minutes ago
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The slide in the polls for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives has been so steep as voter worry over the state of the economy has heightened that the possibility of his losing the upcoming general election is now being raised.

Dozens injured in Qantas mid-air jet drama AFP - Tue Oct 7, 7:44 AM ET
PERTH, Australia (AFP) - Thirty-six passengers and crew were injured, some seriously, in a mid-air drama that forced a Qantas jetliner to make an emergency landing, the Australian carrier and police said on Tuesday.
Australia intercepts 17 more suspected asylum seekers at sea AFP - Tue Oct 7, 2:57 AM ET
SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea just a week after a boatload of Afghans, Iranians and Indonesians was intercepted off the country's coast, officials said Tuesday.
Australians bid farewell to 'g'day mate': report AFP - Sun Oct 5, 11:14 AM ET
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australians who sound like crocodile hunter Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan could soon be a relic of the past, a report said on Sunday.

Nepal appoints 3-year-old as new living goddess AP - Tue Oct 7, 9:59 AM ET
KATMANDU, Nepal - Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.
Kenya deports US author of anti-Obama book AP - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
NAIROBI, Kenya - The American author of a controversial book accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya on Tuesday.
Russia's Jerusalem land claim worries Israelis AP - Tue Oct 7, 6:59 AM ET
JERUSALEM - The Russians are coming to downtown Jerusalem, reclaiming ownership of a landmark with the approval of the Israeli government, just as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visits Moscow to try to iron out serious policy differences between the two countries.

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